https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/evidenceprof/2014/09/under-missouri-law-it-is-well-established-that-the-results-of-a-polygraph-examination-generally-are-inadmissible-in-missou.html

So the mom reported me and made the claim on her own. And the judge ran with it.

Woman is my cousins ex wife.

The judge ran with it? What do you mean by that?

the judge ran with you? you mean the prosecutor?

cousin's ex wife. did you babysit for them or something?

I mean that the only evidence against me was what the mother claimed, with no supporting evidence from the girl.

like if you never interacted with them, then thats easier to show

No babysitting. I live about 60 miles from them. Roughly.

so what was her motivation to do this?

Only interactions was in seeing them at my grandmothers during christmas.

That's just it. I don't know why.

But oddly enough, my cousin, the ex husband, went to prison for three years for also touching his daughter. At the mothers word.

I don't know if there was actual evidence against him, but my granma kept me pretty well up to date on what all was happening with him.

interesting. so did they allege a certain sex act or something?

On him?

Claimed that he exposed himself and told her he was going to "put it in her".

No with you

With me the original claim was that I had attempted to stick my dick in her.

Then became "oh she was confused. He used his fingers."

Cause an adult penis would surely leave some kind of evidence on a nind year old's vagina. But rape test came back negative. No biological material, no compacting, no tearing or bruising, no stretching.

so they actually did an exam. so what fingers wouldnt do the same?

or similar

Presuming fingers wouldn't I guess.

so did you take a plea deal?

whereby you plead guilty

Yeah. Took a plea deal for a lesser crime with a lesser sentence. Cause jury trial for sodomy of a child is up to 45 years in prison.

Molestation is 7 years.

did you not have enough money to go trial?

did you have a public defender?

I was 19. I had barely any money at all.

And yeah. Public defender.

You spent 19 to 26 in prison on a false pedo claim

I'm so sorry man :(

so how often were you attacked in prison?

that seems like a huge thing to take. i'd have gone to trial.

I'm more at peace with it these days. Still angry from time to time. But, oh well, I guess.

7 years of your life, sex offender registry, etc

In 12 fights in prison. Often in the hole.

The other option was chancing 45 years in front of a jury that thinks guilty as soon as the word molestation is said.

With the defendant being a grisly looking unkempt guy in an orange jump suit.