linkOrange County, Ca, about 72 hours ago. A minority-group woman is accused by her ex-spouse of a crime. She has witnesses, photos, even photos posted on the web at the time they were taken, placing her elsewhere. The witnesses were willing to testify too.
But the prosecutor, when made aware of the defence, gets her 9 year old daughter placed temporarily in state care, as being "endangered". She's told by the prosecutor that she will never see her child again - but if she wants her current spouse to retain custody, she better plead Guilty.
She does, and has been sent to serve her 11 month sentence - in a MALE prison.
Not Fiction, as I said, it happened 72 hours ago. In the USA. We couldn't stop it, but we are working at gathering the evidence to prove it, and get oversight of the prosecutor, and the very compliant judge who approved everything. You can imagine what happens to a woman put in with the general male prison population. Some of the more hardened sex-workers it's happened to have survived. This woman runs a web hosting service.
