How to Birth a Criminal

MANCHESTER- Last year in Manchester, a New Hampshire man, we will call him Jesse, was arrested after he was attacked by a roommate with an ax, and defended himself. The “victim” became the man who originally attacked Jesse with an ax, as he went to the hospital claiming a previous back injury happened to him that night as he claimed he was attacked by Jesse and ended up on the floor while Jesse kicked him repeatedly.

Apparently this man was the father of Jesse’s niece, and his estranged daughter, after having a baby needed help to get on their feet, so Jesse let them stay with him. When abuse was witnessed against his daughter, he told his soon to be son in law to get out of the apartment, and that he wasn’t going to beat his daughter again. After fleeing, the man came back with an ax and came at Jesse with every intention of striking him down. Jesse took him to the floor.

What happened next turned due process of the law into the more commonly found criminal control model. The two models of the law have been conflicting for quite some time. I am in favor of due process myself, however as our nation slowly changes beneath our feet, tragedies happen as a result.

Later in that day, after all seemed to be calm, Jesse found out his estranged daughter sided with her abusive boyfriend as they made accusations that were horrific in nature against Jesse. Jesse was accused of sleeping with his other daughter, and having child pornography on his computer. Some of these photos were apparently of his daughter, which added to the suspicions of molestation.

In fact, there were photos of his seventeen year old daughter at the time. The couple new, because they were the ones taking the pictures, a fact they didn’t share with the police. Jesse had no clue as to what was on the computer. He reasonably didn’t check to see who was doing what with it when he was at work. The computer was like a household appliance, and everyone used it for various reasons.

Regardless, Jesse was arrested, and then incarcerated in a privately owned prison, while the police and detectives in the case searched for more evidence to back up the allegations. His estranged daughter and her abusive boyfriend took the baby to a motel, in North Hampton, NH and then to crossroads in Portsmouth, NH. They then decided it best to flee to another state across the country entirely.  While incarcerated, Jesse’s apartment was ransacked by the police and several items, including his bed sheets were taken in for evidence.  Along with the strewn belongings a nice little yellow piece of paper gave a list of the inventory the police now had in posession. No evidence was found of the original accusation. The story however, made its way through gossip hungry neighbors.