Part 4 of 4
Contrary to what CPS planned, all of this served to draw us closer as
a family-and having watched my daugher with her father, I know that
she's not afraid of him, has never been afraid of him.  If someone
hurts her, she tells me about it, always has.  She never told me a
thing about Daddy hurting her.
Written May 23, 1995----
Well, the plea bargain wasn't.  The Asst. DA who offered it, told us that
Frank wouldn't have to plead guilty.  The county changed Asst. DAs again-
they seem to rotate cases, and we got the original Asst. DA.  She refused
the plea bargain unless Frank pled (sp) guilty.  Frank didn't like the
idea, but before he could refuse it, the judge said HE didn't like the
plea bargain (no doubt at the behest of the DA).  This happened in Feb
of 95.  The DA supposedly told our lawyer that she had a good case and
would be taking it to trial soon.
The case came up on the trial docket again (it had been removed from there
in October when the idea of the plea bargain came up and put on the plea
docket) the next month.  It was SIXth on the docket!  This case has never
been higher than sixth-and still has not gone to trial.  The lawyer said
that since it was taken off the trial docket, something called the 18 month
clock stopped-and now must start again.  So the case must work it's way back
up through the system.  Sounds like a really IMPORTANT case, doesn't it?
Still seems like if they had anything concrete they would have taken it
to the trial before now.  As it is, it's been 21 months since he was
indicted, and the lawyer says that the DA can keep this up for TEN YEARS!
Frank thinks they may be waiting for our daughter to turn 18 in another
15 months and then try to convince her that she really WAS abused.  The
lawyer balks at filing a request for dismissal, always has some excuse
about it.  He first said he had to wait two years from the time of the
indictment, now, he just won't discuss it.  I don't think it could hurt
anything for him to at least try.
Ok.  There it is.  Is all of this a case of abuse by government agen-
cies-or not?  The very agency that is supposed to protect children
virtually ignored our son during the entire matter, giving him a pro-
bably life-long distrust of government agencies of any kind.  We lost
our financial stability, and now realize that we must be very careful
who we leave our daughter with-make sure that it's not someone with an
axe to grind that will use our daughter's trust against us.  I've
pulled her out of public school and am teaching her at home in an
attempt to keep the government from getting their hands on her.
She still insists that nothing happened, but can't tell us why she
said what she did.  I think I can guess, since she's so easily led.
I'm interested in hearing from all of you out there.
Thanks,
Nancy Eddy
414 Edwards
Lewisville, TX 75057
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