As noted previously, Abigail was released from prison in late November, shortly before Thanksgiving. Her address was on the sex-offender registry and I wrote her two letters. I ended one letter by writing: “What a book you could write about your hellish and nightmarish ordeal.”
What a book I could write if she answered my questions in book-length detail. What a book we could write together, probably the only way such a book could be published, or even self-published, with the money and means of her family and friends. Lamentably, I received no reply, not even a short letter.
So many questions. What were the details of the plea-bargain, or plea-bargains, she rejected, the many conditions and penalties to which she’d be subjected? She was criticized, assailed as stupid and crazy and foolish, for rejecting a plea-bargain under which she’d serve “only” 6-months in jail. Under the final plea-bargain she rejected, would she have been sentenced to “only” 6-months in jail or sentenced to 12-months in jail with the possibility of being released after 6-months?
And what penalties would she have endured and suffered, what restrictions on her freedoms and intrusions into her private life, when released from jail after “only” 6- or 12-months? How many years of parole and probation, with all or most of the penalties and miseries I describe in “Abigail’s Life a-After Prison, Hell Continues”? And how many years of electronic parole-monitoring with an ankle-tether/”bracelet” she can never remove (not even when showering, bathing, sleeping) and all which that entails in regard to private and public mortification, embarrassment, itching, cuts, bruises, abrasions, skin infections. And a lifetime or at least 20-30 years of public sex-offender registration with her mugshot, name, and address on the internet and all which that entails in regard to danger and humiliation.
Assuming, for the sake of argument, that she’s lying about everything, were the penalties and conditions she would have endured under the plea-bargain she rejected so harsh and onerous and dreadful, especially for a child of wealth and privilege, that she pled not guilty and went to trial, risking a sentence far more harsh and dreadful, with the hope that she’d be acquitted, “not guilty” on all charges, and thus free to have a life as normal as possible given the memories, profound and haunting and ineradicable, of her hellish and nightmarish ordeal/ The result was “guilty” on all charges and an ordeal far more hellish and nightmarish.
And questions about her life in jail and prison. Almost a decade of her life with no privacy and freedom: the misery and monotony, fear and anxiety, humiliation and debasement, hundreds of nights with little or no sleep, staring into darkness, often crying; the dismally boring daily routine, virtually unvarying, hour after hour and day after day and week after week and month after month and year after year for almost a decade of her life.
A highly Inteligent, sensitive, educated woman, a first-offender convicted of nonviolent and victimless and mala prohibita felonies, she was enslaved for 8-years in a zoo with hundreds of low-IQ, white-hating, inner-city blacks, most of them violent.
Was she assaulted during her 8-years of incarceration? And if so, how many times and how exactly? Many or a few times or only twice or even once? And was she punched, slapped, kicked, pushed, bitten, assaulted with objects? And if so, what objects and how exactly? And by whom, individuals or small gangs of 2 or 3 or 4 prisoners. And was she injured, mildly or severely? And how exactly: cuts, bruises, sprains, concussions, broken bones?
And if she was never assaulted, not even once during almost a decade of imprisonment, I’m sure she was harassed, bullied, reviled, mortified, threatened with violence. And if so, frequently, occasionally, rarely, weekly or monthly, and how exactly? And even if she was never assaulted, I’m sure she feared that she’d be assaulted. And did she fear that she’d be killed severely injured? And if so, how often?
Was she abused by the guards, verbally or physically. Or punished and debased in ways that she viewed as unjust, at least moderately, and excessive and gratuitous? And if so, how often and how exactly?
And question about her life and the penalties she’s now suffering and will suffer for years and decades: the gratuitous and sundry restrictions on her freedoms and intrusions into her private life, electronic parole-monitoring with an ankle tether/”bracelet” she can never remove and the responses of those who see her in public and recognize her and act in a hostile or threatening manner.
It appears she has no intention of answering any of my questions much less all or most of them or even informing me in a short letter that she has no such intentions.
But even if she wanted to respond by mail and answer my questions, it’s likely she’d be ordered not to do so by her parole agent or others in authority or even enjoined from doing so under Michigan law.