Click the link for the story:
http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-i-team-south-euclid-candidate-controversy-txt,0,1335453.story
Council candidate George Martin was convicted in 1989 of sexually molesting his adopted teenaged son. Martin says he's not guilty, but he accepted a plea deal in exchange for a lighter sentence. According to the trial report, Martin also psychologically abused the boy, making racist comments about the boy's Korean parentage. He also emotionally and physically abused an adopted daughter, punching her in the face. Martin's conviction was overturned in 1993 by a 2-1 vote due to prosecutorial misconduct. Read the ruling here:
http://georgelmartinforcouncilatlarge.com/Full%20text%20United%20States%20Court%20of%20Appeals.pdf
Take particular note of the dissenting judge's comments:
"Martin's generally abusive conduct towards his other child or children...the questioned testimony of the victim's adoptive sister about the petitioner-defendant's abusive conduct towards her was at least arguably admissible."
Sorry, I don't buy Martin's claims of innocence. Nor do I buy his claim that the "details remain a private matter within the family for which forgiveness has been given long ago". Who forgave who? If the son forgave the father, then the father clearly must have done something bad that needed to be forgiven. If the son made false accusations and the father forgave the son, then the son would surely come forward and tell people that "I made it up. My father is innocent."
A lie goes whimpering into the night, but the truth shouts from the highest mountaintop.
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