Update on my son's seizure by the state

On 2/23/05, I telephoned the Rick Robert's program on KFMB/San Diego and identified myself as a pedophile. Although I discussed a play related to that topic I was producing, my motivation for doing this was the bounty this man had placed on the lives of people like me, in particular NAMBLA members.

My persecution for my sexuality began twenty years ago. I was fifteen years old when I approached a guidance counselor at my high school who was friendly to me and told her of my struggles with sexuality. The State of Indiana took me for that disclosure. Many of you have seen the photographs of the facility I was held at through my adolescence. During my first month in their care, I was restrained to a bed. My pants and underwear were lowered and my penis put in an open pair of scissors by the facility staff and Adolescent Program Director. I was told that they should cut my penis off. This was in 1985 and it has never gotten better. [...]

On 3/7/05 my wife and I were visited by an IPD Detective and an FBI agent wanting to talk about the radio show. They requested to search my computer; I telephoned my lawyer and she told them not without a warrant. There were never any allegations of wrongdoing of any sort at all. They did not have probable cause. I did not see the Child Protective Service workers with them until I had opened my front door; what I know now in restrospect is that CPS did not have probable cause either and could not have taken my son had I not let them in. The CPS workers did not identify themselves upon entering. Micah, my two-year-old son and the love of my life, was seized and taken to an emergency shelter.

source: 'Update on my Son's Seizure by the State' by Kevin Brown; www.boychat.org/messages/901299.htm; Boy Chat; 15 March 2005