His name is Weslee Sicard. He was born in Holyoke Massachusetts, to a wonderful Mother and a wonderful Father. During the first few years of his life, he lived right next door to 1215 Dwight Street in Holyoke. His Mother during this time had a friend named Paul, whom lived at 1215 Dwight Street. Right next door to where they lived.
It wasn’t long after Wes was two years old, when he moved to a new home at 8 Tokeneke Road in Holyoke.
When he was almost 4 years old, his mom took him and her cat and went to live with his great grandmother Elise, whom was his mom’s grandmother, at 125 Jackson Street in Holyoke. After moving to this address his mom and dad got a divorce due to indifferences.
As the years went on, Wes’s great grandmother Elise passed away and his mom became lonely. Paul was over more frequently and after time went on his mom became pregnant with Wes’s first sister Jillian. His mom was in nursing school at Holyoke Community College for her LPN license.
Time went by and Paul moved in to stay with his mom on Jackson Street, although still had his house on Dwight Street. His first sister was born in March of 1985. By this time he was just 7 years old. His mom was pregnant again with his second sister and it was about then Paul began to change. He changed into a man who was far different then Wes’s biological father. He became very violent and physically abusive towards Wes and his mom. Although he would take them all places and some spend time with Wes. He was not a kind person whatsoever! And at home, if he wasn’t happy with Wes or if Wes was talking while the news was on, he was beat! Because this was happening to his mom also, she was afraid to ever say anything to Paul or stop him. Wes constantly went to school with bruises on his arms, legs and buttocks where he would hit and beat him with a 2×4 or punch him in the head, arms or back with a closed fist! Wes was only 7 years old!
You can clearly see the bruise on Wes’s arm in the picture below from being punched with a closed fist and thrown off a chair he was sitting in at the dinner table by Paul, because he was talking to his mom one night about how a school field trip went, when Paul was trying to watch the game show, “Jeopardy”.
Paul had an older daughter whom was 17 at this time, from a previous marriage named Lori. Lori was living with her mother, (Paul’s ex wife) around the corner from Wes and his family, on Chestnut Street in Holyoke. Lori ended up moving in with Wes and his family one day because Lori went home and found her mother murdered. So from that day on Lori began living with them. She got to sleep in his mom’s room upstairs which was next to Wes’s room and his mom slept with Paul downstairs.
This was when Wes’s life as he knew it became completely changed forever!
Lori started coming into Wes’s room at night and asking him to go in her room and play cards with her.
However, it wasn’t cards she wanted to play! It was him she wanted to play with. And this night, the first night this ever happened was a night that Wes would never forget! He forever lost his innocence! The things that happened in that room that night to Wes when he was only 7 years old was unimaginable! An hour felt like an eternity! This went on for almost THREE YEARS!
Why did this go on this long you ask… Well, when Wes told mom this was happening and she went off on Paul and Paul blamed Wes! A 7 year old… Saying he must have made Lori do this to him. He also blamed his mom for not watching them. He then threatened Wes to NEVER say anything about this to anyone including the Police! Mom was also threatened about it often and lived in fear, just as Wes did. So sadly Wes had to just lay there each time Lori wanted to have her fun and just let her do these horrible things to him, each and every night! Wes not able to tell anyone because of fear of being beaten, and Lori knew this and used this to scare Wes into letting her have her way with him during this entire three long years! Lori finally moved out when Wes was about 10. She went to live at Paul’s other house on Dwight Street in Holyoke.
It was then that Wes’s room was moved by Paul to the cellar and Wes was locked down there and ONLY allowed upstairs to use the bathroom, eat meals, go to school and go to church! Wes was locked away from everyone to make sure he never talked to anyone about anything that had happened. Lori still got to Wes though, when the family went on camping trips or to Paul’s brother Joe’s house in Connecticut. Lori always seemed to find a way to get to Wes and told him numerous times that if he ever said anything she would tell her father! Lori NEVER once denied what she did any of this to Wes, not even to the Police or a DSS worker. Only saying that “she couldn’t help herself”. Wes felt many times are the horrible abuse by Lori was happening to him that he wanted to somehow end his life, to end all fear and to forget what has happened to him and what was continuing to happen to him.
His life resembled the movie, “This Boy’s Life”, almost exactly! The only difference from that boy’s situation in the movie and his was that there was no molestation or constant rapes happening to him in the movie.
Because Wes wasn’t Paul’s child and because of what Wes said Lori was doing to him, Paul said Wes was to be seen and not heard and at times not even seen. Wes was NEVER allowed upstairs and only went upstairs when Paul would leave to go to his house on Dwight Street. His mom would then unlock the cellar and let him upstairs to spend time with her and his sisters. However, Wes was always on edge, listening for a car door to shut outside, and peeking out the curtains because once Wes heard Paul come home and had to run downstairs to the cellar again, because if he didn’t he and his mom would be threatened and beat!
In November of 1988 his mom graduated from HCC and became an LPN Nurse. Wes was 11 years old. Things at home didn’t change though. Paul was the same miserable violent and abusive person he always was, and it got worse when Wes came out to my mother about being Gay and liking boys and not girls. Wes knew it seems strange that a boy at 11-12 years old knows he’s Gay, but he knew and because of everything Lori did to him he was never comfortable with girls at all! Paul knowing about him being Gay and because he just had such a hatred for him because of what Wes said Lori did to him and was continuing to do, he tried hard to get Wes out of the house completely. He somehow convinced Wes’s mother to send him away to Brightside in West Springfield MA. An orphanage type of place, where Wes lived and went to school for 4 entire years. Finally, moving back home when he was 15 almost 16 years old. By this time his mom had another baby. Wes’s Brother. Paul still lived there and although Wes was able to have his room back upstairs again, he wasn’t any nicer. Wes’s sisters got beat and physically abused, as well as his mother while he was gone. One night, when Wes was 16, Paul and his mom were having an argument about what Lori did to him. They argued about that all the time and his mom tried to get Paul to understand that it wasn’t Wes’s fault or his mothers that it was Lori’s fault and she needed help or she might do this to other boys. Paul didn’t want to hear it and knocked my mother to the floor. Wes immediately came downstairs and told Paul that was enough. Wes swore that he would harm Paul in some way if he ever hurt anyone else in that house again. Paul stormed out of the house to go to his house on Dwight street with Lori and never again came back to live there with them!
It was almost as if the whole problem went away and they were free! A freedom for Wes that was short lived…
When Wes turned 16 he wanted to go to the Police about the abuse that Paul’s daughter did to him and his mother told him that wasn’t a good idea and that it would cause a lot of trouble. She told Wes to forget it and to just go in the Navy like he wanted to do.
Wes left for the Navy on November 13th 1995 just after graduating high school in June of 1995. There was a relative that was very sick and was passing away around Thanksgiving of 1995. Wes was advised of this and was allowed to come home due be with this relative. Wes came back home from the Navy sometime in February of 1996.
Wes however still felt he needed to go to the Police for what Paul and his daughter Lori did to him. Wes and his mom talked about it a lot on the phone. Wes also had a fear that if his brother would go visit Paul where Lori was staying that she might abuse him the same way she did to Wes and Wes didn’t want that to happen to his little brother.
Just after the St Patrick’s parade in March of 1996 Wes was talking with my mother on the phone when Paul stopped by to pick up the kids to visit with him at his house. Wes pretty much yelled over the phone to Paul to keep Lori away from his brother. That’s the day everything began to happen. Wes told Paul that he was going to the Police about what happened to him and that he would make sure that Lori never hurt anyone else or his little brother. Paul told Wes “good luck trying”!
On May 3 1996 Paul called the police and said that Wes was making threats to burn his house down on Dwight street. The police came to his moms house and spoke with her and with Wes on the phone and also the fire department investigator called and spoke with them as well. They found that the whole thing ended up being nothing. Paul made it all up.
Then on November 20 1996 Paul found out that Wes stopped by to help his mom with preparing some Thanksgiving foods, Paul had called to talk to Wes’s mother and just after that he called the police and said that Wes was abusing my sisters. Even possibly being sexually inappropriate with them. However, Mom told the Police officer that first of all Wes was “GAY” and wouldn’t be being sexual with his sisters and second Wes was only horse playing with his sisters in the kitchen, it was nothing serious or inappropriate. Paul had made a huge issue out of nothing. Again, filing a false report against Wes.
At this point Wes became very upset with Paul continuing to call the Police on him for no reason. Wes just about had enough and was going to the Police about what happened to him regarding Lori. Against moms wishes, Wes went to the Police station on January 5th 1997. Wes felt he had to do this and he also needed to protect his younger brother from Paul’s daughter Lori.
On January 5th 1997 Wes told the police detective Denise Duguay, what happened to him. His mom was also called and met with the detective on January 7th 1997 and was asked about what happened. His mom told the detective what she knew. Wes felt a huge relief that he was finally able to get this off his chest, but feared now that Paul would do something really bad to him or his mom, because Paul warned them to never say anything about the abuse. Wes figured because Paul wasn’t living with his mom Paul might not bother doing anything.
On January 25th 1997 the detective spoke with Paul’s daughter Lori who basically in her statement made Wes out to look like a bad person and said things that weren’t true about him. She also denied some things that happened making it seem that it was Wes’s fault. Since she was living with Paul he found out about it and it wasn’t long after that, that Paul for NO reason at all, came down to pick Wes’s brother up and take him to get a haircut. Which was very unusual because Paul barley spent any time with him, he always spent more time with Wes’s sisters. This happened on February 28th 1997.
On February 28th 1997 Paul picked Wes’s brother up for a haircut and then later that day Wes found out that the Police wanted to speak with his mom about Wes possibly molesting all three of the kids, including another kid that was friends with his brother. His mom knew right away that this was bogus and went to the police station to talk with detective Duguay. When his mom got there Paul had already talked with detective Duguay on the phone and wanted to know if she knew anything about what’s being alleged. His mom said to her this was the first time she’s hearing of it. His mom said she knew that Wes wouldn’t do anything like that, but the detective wanted to talk with all the kids anyway.
Detective Duguay spoke with both of Wes’s sisters while mom was in the room and they both said Wes never touched them ever. She then wanted to talk with his brother privately without Wes’s mom there. His mom asked repeatedly to be there but the Detective said it was procedure to talk with the victim privately. He was only 6 years old and wanted his mom there, but was told no! His mom thought that was very strange! She got to be in the room with the girls but not with him. He “apparently” told Detective Duguay (in a room alone, with no other officer and no audio or video on) that Wes touched him and unzipped his pants and on two occasions the same night wiggled his penis around. His mom knew right away that this story wasn’t right. Why would he tell Paul something like this, when Paul barley ever spent time with him. He see’s his mom every day and had NEVER said nothing or acted strange around his mother at all what so ever!
Wes’s mom asked him about everything and he told her that he never once touched his brother like that, or anyone else. He said he told the detective that but she kept asking him things and making it seem that he wasn’t telling the truth. Wes later told his mom that on one night when he got home from Dairy Mart on Westfield Road in Holyoke where he worked, a few years ago prior when he would have been 16 and his brother 4, that he did put his hand in water when he was sleeping as a practical joke and then felt to see if it worked and he wet himself, but never was sexually inappropriate to him at all! Wes told his mom that one of his sisters even saw him doing it and asked him what he was doing. Wes’s mom told him to tell the detective this and he did. Wes called her and went to meet with her and from that day on, everything went to court.
Wes’s brother never slept with anything but shorts and underwear on, so there were no zippers or pants. Only his mother, Wes or anyone living there in that house would have known that. Wes was 16 at the time he was living at that house with them on Primrose lane in Holyoke when he did that joke. His mom wasn’t allowed to be in the room with his brother when detective Duguay was talking with him, but apparently his brother even drew a picture of Was kneeling next to the bed and said he woke up and that Wes said he was petting the cat. They didn’t have a cat! Paul took it back in September of 1995 because Wes’s mom couldn’t care for it. So Paul had the cat. Also, Wes’s Sister might have told Paul about Wes putting his brothers hand in the water on some occasion when she went to visit with him! In the police report his brother said he didn’t even remember when the incident happened, only that it was cold out!
If Wes was in fact touching his brother inappropriately why didn’t he tell mom? Why would he wait several years later and then just tell Paul on one rare occasion when Paul picked him up to get a haircut. Why wasn’t his brother acting weird or different around Wes. Nothing made any sense!
Then out of nowhere, the Holyoke Police department DROPPED Wes’s case against Pauls daughter Lori, by saying on the report, “Status “Closed”, the victim doesn’t want to prosecute”. This was very much untrue and false!
All Wes wanted to do was protect his little brother from being abused also by Lori as well as any other kid Lori would be around and as much as Wes’s mom told him not to go to the police, Wes felt he had to, to protect his brother in case he went over to Paul’s house and Lori was there or any other kid that she might even baby sit and this is what happened. Wes knew something was going to happen, but why the police were not seeing all the facts, through all the lies, no one knew!
Then, Wes’s mom was forced to get a no contact restraining order against him or his sisters and brother would be taken away from her. (This was later determined to be an illegal scare tactic!)
Wes went to court for something he didn’t do, eventually getting a court appointed lawyer, because he wasn’t able to afford one. The police made up a factitious time line when this incident happened, because they didn’t know when the incident happened or wanted to show that Wes was over 16 to charge him as an adult, verses his true age at the time of doing the practical joke, which was 16!
The Police claim it happened between October 1995 – December 1996. There’s NO real proof when it happened and if they went by what Wes told them regarding the hand in water joke, it would have been when Wes was just 16. Wes should have then been charged as a juvenile. Wes told his lawyer everything, from his sister seeing him put Evan’s hand in water that one night, to him being in the Navy for some of the time the Police claim this happened. Then Wes didn’t even live at his moms house once he got back home from the Navy, he lived with a friend in Greenfield! And again, the police made sure that his age was over 16 so they could charge him as an adult. Wes was just 16 when the water incident happened! If that’s what the charges stem from.
By this time Wes went to school to be an EMT and was re enlisting to go in the Navy. Wes told his lawyer Dale Bass all of this, including that he was Gay and that’s probably why his step father was trying to pull this stuff, while using my brother as a way to get back at him! Attorney Bass told Wes that he was going to be all set, but that he couldn’t bring up the “Gay” part because it would hurt him even more in court! Attorney Bass said this in front of several of Wes’s relatives at the court the day of my trial. All of which wrote statements for the initial motion for new trial on this case, and the judge didn’t allow any of them to be entered in as evidence on Wes’s behalf!
As my court days went on, several people Wes knew as well as mom and other family members were there with him each time. On June 16th 1998 Attorney Bass, told Wes that if he was to plead guilty that he would file a motion to the court for the case to be continued without a finding to be dismissed and that he would be all set. He said Wes would be able to go in the Navy and keep his EMT certification etc. Wes then said to his lawyer, that “he didn’t molest my brother, and that he shouldn’t have to plead guilty, he didn’t do it.” And why can’t he tell them he’s Gay and that’s why he thinks his stepfather picked his brother to use as a way to get back at him, Attorney Bass then told Wes in front of all of all of my family, “I’m your F**ken lawyer and you need to do what I tell you to do and you will be all set”. Attorney Bass told Wes, that if he is saying he touched him by putting his hand in water and then feeling to see if he wet himself, then that’s an indecent assault and battery, which is what he was being accused of.
Wes’s mom spoke with the ADA Pat Campagnari and she told her that he would be all set if he just accepts the deal he was being giving. She also told his mom that he would be able to go in the Navy etc. His mom later told him after talking with the ADA, that he should just take the deal, because it’s the best thing for him. Wes told his lawyer that he won’t take the deal until he sees the paper regarding this deal in his hand. Wes’s lawyer came over and showed it to him and his mom seen it as well. It had the lawyer’s signature on it saying that it would be continued without a finding to be dismissed. So Wes went in and plead guilty as he was told to do! However, Wes made it clear that he never touched Evan under his shorts ever and that it was only a joke he was playing on his brother by putting his hand in water and feeling to see if he wet himself. The judge said “OK” and accepted what Wes said regarding the joke. The Judge also accepted “on record”, that Wes only put my hand on him to check to see if he wet himself after playing the joke on him and felt only on top of his pants, not under to feel to see if the joke worked. (It was later uncovered that Dale Bass made Wes agree to a plea deal before it was even determined if the court would allow it or not! This is NOT allowed! Thus screwing Wes out of a chance to opt to not take the plea deal and take a trial instead! This was done to Wes knowingly! To date Dale Bass REFUSES to return any of Wes’s lawyers or investigators calls for information or statements on this!)
Wes was then giving a sentence of 5 years probation and had to register as a sex offender. WHY? What happened to the deal he was supposed to get? Wes was lied to and his entire family was also! By not only the ADA but by my own lawyer Dale Bass also!
Wes tried to talk with attorney Bass after and was just told, “sorry I have to go” and he walked away from him. He was also ignoring my his mom, when she tried to talk with him afterwards. His mom wanted to talk with the ADA and she just up and left as well. The lawyer knew Wes’s sister seen him do this prank of putting his brothers hand in water, didn’t that matter? (This was withholding evidence from the court) Why didn’t Dale Bass present the ADA or the grand Jury with ANY of the documents that would have clearly showed all the false Police reports Paul made against Wes just after going to the Police about his 3 years of being raped and abused by Lori, and what about his sisters statement about seeing him putting his brothers hand in water that one night. ALL of this would have made a huge difference. Wes feels the court NEVER got to hear all of this purposely! Wes was denied his right to a fair trial be means of deception! Not only by the attorney Dale Bass but by the court also! Wes didn’t do anything sexual to his brother at all nor ever!
Wes swore to never stop fighting for the truth. For someone to live their life as a sex offender or child molester is the worst thing anyone could be accused of, especially if they didn’t do anything wrong like that! Wes tried to call his lawyer Dale Bass and his mother also tried to do the same and he never called any of them back EVER! The ADA also wouldn’t return his moms calls.
Wes later lost his EMT license and never was able to go back in the Navy with this case now against him. Wes’s only true dream he ever had was to follow his grandfather and other relatives who server in the service and serve their country and keep their family name in the Navy and he lost it, due to this gross injustice and true negligence!
How is putting someone’s hand in water and feeling to see if they wet themselves a crime? Wes’s mother bathed all of her kids and I know a lot of people that do the same. I’m sure a lot of people played the hand in water joke. Are you committing a sex offense by doing any of this? Coaches pat kids on the buttocks at games. Is that a sex offense?? Since when did what Wes did become a crime? Even in the law “Indecent Assault and battery on a child under 14”, it says clearly, there must be intent to commit a sexual crime. Wes had NO sexual intent on putting his hand where he did, he did it just to see if the joke worked and if his brother was wet afterwards.
Since the day Wes was told there was a restraining order he hasn’t seen his brother, mother or sisters. Not even for Christmas, which was always a special family time for their family. After the restraining order expired, his mom talked with him on the phone, but ge was so scared to visit her even if it was somewhere other than the house, for fear Paul might say something or try something else.
In November of 2004 Paul passed away of cancer.
Wes had a job as a manager of a convenience store, but it wasn’t a lot of money. Wes was finally able to hire an attorney out of Boston to help him finally try to file for a motion for a new trial. The attorney got statements from his mom and several other people and then filed a case in November of 2005. Apparently, the first hearing in front of the original Judge was denied without even hearing from anyone. Then another hearing in front of another level of the court also got turned down without hearing from anyone as well. From what Wes was told there was a total of three appeals and nothing was allowed.
Wes got a letter from the Navy saying that they would take him back if he cleared up his court matters. Which were and still are the ONLY things on his record! Wes never has drank alcohol or did any drugs and have never had issues with the law until this happened! Wes even received letters from several people about his character.
On December 10th 2009 Wes filed a motion in front of the Trial Judge to be determined indigent, so that he could have an attorney represent him in another motion for new trial, after he found out that his brother told their mom that he was told what to say by Paul. The judge said give her about 5 days to make a decision. Several months went by with no answers from the court. Wes called often and finally went down and personally asked to see his file. Upon doing so the clerk looked for the file since it was missing, and Wes later found that the court misfiled the paperwork and that the motion was allowed. Wes quickly got that information over to his then appointed appeals attorney Laura Edmonds.
On March 10th 2011 Wes FINALLY had a hearing in front of the Judge with his Brother. This was in front of the same Judge who originally heard Wes’s case, because she retained personal jurisdiction of this case. For that one hour, Wes finally felt this would all be over! His brother wanted to tell the Judge the truth about what really happened and Wes knew once the Judge heard this she would do the right thing and overturn his wrongful conviction.
When his brother was on the stand this day, the Judge asked if she could speak to him directly. Both Wes’s attorney and the ADA said yes. The Judge asked his brother, “I’d like you to tell me what really happened”. His brother now 19, began to tell her that Paul hounded him for a long time saying things to him such as, “Is Weslee touching you”, “Weslee is touching you right”. And his brother said finally, Paul told him to tell the Police that Wes touched him. This was when Paul took him to the Holyoke Police Department to talk with Detective Denise Duguay. The Judge asked him, did you read what you wrote back then. he said “Yes, but that he had trouble reading due to a learning disability and trouble writing and the detective wrote everything for him and then after only asked him if he know how to write his name. He said yes and she pointed to where he should write his name and he did.” The Judge than asked him if he read any of what was written since then. And he said, “yes, when Weslee’s lawyer sent it to me to look at. But a lot of things in that statement are not true!” The Judge asked a few more questions and then the ADA asked some of her own.
The ADA was unbelievably harsh for some reason. Even towards Wes’s brother when he took the stand. She berated him with questions and comments as if he was a Defendant in some criminal case against him and not as a victim of a past sexual assault case!
A private investigator Jonnie Vernon agreed to assist with Wes’s case at no charge. He went and spoke with people who Wes’s step father Paul interacted with. Out of all the interviews he did, the Judge and ADA “REFUSED” to allow him to speak and testify to what he found by talking to and interviewing people who knew and closely had interaction with Paul. His testimony would have shown that Wes’s step father did not like him and had it out for him! This would have been a key testimony to this hearing and he was not allowed to speak or present ANYTHING!
The Judge said she would like both my attorney and the ADA to get all their final paperwork to her and she would make her decision.
Just two days before Christmas on Friday December 23rd, Attorney Edmonds called Wes to let him know that the Judge made a decision on his case. Attorney Edmonds said Wes’s motion for a new trial was denied! And the reason the Judge said it was denied was because the Judge found Wes’s brother to be unreliable and not credible! His brother has no criminal record and was going into the military. How is he unreliable and not credible now at the age of 19, but at the age of 5 is reliable and credible, even when he couldn’t read or write due to a learning disability?! Again, being in a room with a detective who was with him ALONE with no audio tape, no camera, no witness and without his mother being present! Even when his brother asked for her to come in and his mother wanted to be in there with him, she was told “NO” by Detective Duguay. So his statement back then was ok even though he didn’t actually write it!, but his statement now is not ok. “WHY?!”
Attorney Edmonds was in tears on the phone. And apologized profusely for trying the best she could, to bring Wes and his family back together. Wes told her it’s not her fault and thanked her for trying. What did Wes ever do so wrong in his life to deserve any of this…
Even Detective Duguay who told Wes for years that she would give him a letter for a Governors Pardon if he ever needed it, never came through with that promise when Wes finally whet down and asked for it! (It was later found that not only was this detective a friend of Wes’s family, but she often accepted gifts etc from the family during holidays and birthdays and should have NEVER been part of this investigation whatsoever, also that her promise of a letter for a Governors pardon was also not appropriate in her capacity as a Police Detective and the same Detective who investigated this case!)
Former Police Chief Anthony Scott personally sat with Wes in his office a month before he retired, with Detective Jennifer Satler and Wes gave them both the affidavit from his brother saying that he was told what to say and that Wes never did anything to him. Wes also showed them paperwork that he found where there was inconsistencies with his case from the initial investigation. Chief Scott said he assigned Detective Satler to look into the entire case for him. Chief Scott and Detective Satler NEVER got back to Wes and all the calls Wes made and messages left for them both went unanswered!
All Wes ever wanted was a little brother… To hang out with, teach to play catch and baseball. Go to all of his games. Help him with his homework, show him how to drive. Be there for him when he needed someone to talk to. Someone to hug and hold him when he was scared and sad. And what Wes got was found guilty of molesting him, only for doing a practical joke. Wes never had any intentions of doing anything sexual to him ever! He loved his brother! It was a dumb childish joke, that’s it!
Wes has missed nearly 20 birthdays, 20 thanksgivings and 20 Christmases with his family. Wes hasn’t even been able to send him as much as a card or call to say Happy Birthday, or Merry Christmas. Because the court has always ordered him to stay away from the victim!
“There is only one god and he has made straight people and he has made gay people. He made me gay and others straight. And although we are different, our hearts are the same! I have committed no crime except that I am gay and because of this I feel that the original attorney Dale Bass, the DA’s office, the court and the ADA, feel that because I’m gay and did that practical joke and felt to see if he wet himself after, that I had sexual intentions of molesting him. And by not allowing me a new trial after hearing my brother tell the truth under oath directly to the judge, tells me that this is true! And for ADA Dianne Dillon to slam me and my brother in open public court during my hearing with my brother, was a poor attempt to discredit me, and also was complete prosecution misconduct! Saying in open court how, we are the most dysfunctional family she has ever seen and heard of! ON RECORD! My investigator has found that ADA Dillon was sanctioned already once for lying during a case during a trial. (Commonwealth vs. Michael Hill) Now, during my New trial it appears to have happened again.” Wes
“Although I am gay, I loved my brother back then as much as I do now, and I never got the chance to be there for him through all of his years growing up, I miss him now still more than ever, and all I ask is that someone please help me get the justice I so long deserve, so that I can be with him and have our family back together again. I know I can never get the last 20 years back, nor make up for it somehow, but I’d like to be there for him for the rest of his life”. Wes
Please help Wes get the truth heard and get the justice he deserves in this case! To have a case against him that wasn’t right and true from the start, overturned and reheard! Wes is being forced now to live being convicted of a sex crime on his own brother, for solely being GAY! When in fact the people who have heard this case, heard the truth and now know the truth but instead of doing what they took an oath to do which was to uphold truth and justice, they are saying his brother was not a credible witness! How was he credible at 5 being told what to say with no witness in the room with the Police Detective and Wes’s step father pushing him as to what to say, and now that his step father is out of the picture and there’s no more fear for him to tell the truth, he tells the truth now as a grown 20 year old man with no criminal record, and now he’s not credible…. How can this happen and be called “Justice”?
Detective Duguay was in a room with him alone, with no witness, no recording device, no video and NO parent. However when Wes’s sisters were spoke to there was someone in the room with each of them! In his own words to the Judge, Detective Duguay wrote the statement and only asked his brother if he knows how to write his name. He said yes, and she told him to write it here, pointing to him where to write his name! He told the Judge that at that time he didn’t know how to read or write well at all. HOW CAN THIS BE USED AGAINST Wes then! Even now, after his brother told the Judge face to face the truth about what happened!
In 1692 a lot of citizens of Salem Massachusetts, were wrongly and unfairly tried, convicted and sentenced to death, for supposedly being witches! Neither the states attorney’s, judges or courts wanted to hear anything they had to say. People who didn’t do anything wrong, were being wrongly accused by the courts of this state and tried and prosecuted for it. WHY did it take so long, so many years before someone actually deemed those trials to be unfair and unconstitutional? Why did so many innocent people have to be sentenced to death and ousted from society and their communities for wrongly being accused of being a witch or practicing witch craft? This is not much different in Justice today with Wes’s case then there was back then. No different at all! Wes is being accused of molesting his own brother and didn’t do it. The truth is being told but no one is listening. No one wants to accept they made a mistake in this case and retry the case for truth and justice! Then to publicly make Wes a sex offender and the highest level in the state even, and never letting him appeal it even when others are allowed to, just for being Gay! And then after several tries to lower the level, Wes still gets turned down! Even after giving them his brothers affidavit used in court during the new trial motion, where his brother states he was told what to say and that Wes never touched him! So WHY wont they allow Wes after this long to lower his level when others get allowed to???
Wes is not a witch, however Wes is Gay and this is the only reason we can think of, as to why no one wants to fix this. Wes is a Gay male accused of touching his younger brother. So it must be true, no matter what anyone says….. This is NOT justice! It’s NOT fair! If anything its discriminatory and a complete cover up of the truth in this case. The truth was told on March 10th 2011. Finally, years after fighting to have the truth told. And the Judge didn’t even want to hear it! Just like in Salem in 1692.
Also, back in the 1800’s in this same state, when colored people were being wrongly accused of things they never did, and were tried, convicted and sentenced for things they never did. WHY, because they were different! Just as Wes is different!
This great country was founded on freedom and justice. It took someone hearing the cases of those from Salem and those who were of a different color, to stand up for them and stop what happened and make a change. All we are asking is for people to hear Wes’s case and help him to fight for his justice and freedom from wrongful prosecution and wrongful conviction. If you hear the audio tape from the court, or read the entire printed court transcripts which we have, from the March 10th 2011 hearing, or read Wes’s brothers affidavit to the court, where his brother says what really happened, you will then read and hear for yourself the truth!
Thank you for taking time to read Wes’s story and I ask for your support to help him get the truth heard and to get justice in this case and be able to be with his family and brother again! He misses them all dearly and lost almost 21 years together because of this horrible injustice. Years he can never get back.
Thank you so much, to all of Wes’s family and friends who wanted to create this web site to help get the word out about this horrible injustice that happened to Wes and help Wes to get this case overturned and give him his life with his family back again!