43. Married to a Sex Offender

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The heavy personal toll borne by a man and his family for a miscarriage of justice.

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0:00.0	The following is an app-well presentation.
0:06.0	So I ended up going and I just remember them putting the handcuffs on me, turning me
0:10.6	around and my whole family and a lot of my friends were in the courtroom that day.
0:13.7	It was an open court proceeding.
0:15.7	So it was packed.
0:17.7	And I just remember them all waving goodbye to me and saying that they loved me and they
0:23.3	let me out.
0:38.5	My name is Karen and my secret is that my husband is on the Sex Offender Registry.
0:44.8	Hi Karen.
0:46.2	I'm glad you've agreed to share what's happened to you and your husband.
0:51.0	It's so tough because it's something that I don't want to have to hide.
0:58.0	Today, a story about a crime and the social stigma and burden that accompanies it.
1:03.0	But listen closely to this one because it's also about a miscarriage of justice to a degree.
1:08.6	And even when you know that, the stigma for this crime is so strong, it can be hard
1:12.8	to see that the punishment in this case was too much.
1:16.4	This edition of the podcast opened with Creed describing the day that he was found guilty
1:20.8	of the crime that would place him on the Sex Offender Registry.
1:24.4	You're listening to the secret room.
1:25.9	A podcast about the stories no one ever tells.
1:28.7	I'm Ben Hamm.
1:31.9	And now Creed's wife joins me at the microphone.
1:35.3	What do you do Karen?
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