And many people rejoice that Anthony Stockelman “got what he deserved.”

The case is horrific - happened not too far from me, in fact. I often drive by where Katie’s body was found. I can’t feel any sympathy for the scum. He is manifestly guilty; I mean, this is as sure as guilt gets without having the crime taped. There is absolutely no doubt that he is guilty, and I speak as a man who has no faith at all in the criminal justice system. And I am no bleeding heart, either, in fact I applaud that he got life instead of death because I think it’s a loophole in the “cruel and unusual” clause. Locked up, for all your days. In a cell, for hours and hours on end. Knowing when you will die often leads people to repentance. Not knowing - well, they can put that repentance off. Until it’s too late.

But, before we get all rowdy and “YEAH!” on this, let me tell you a story, and per usual the names are changed to protect the innocent. And me from libel.
I knew Alan in the days when he had what he thought was a good marriage. We are literally talking the white picket fence and everything. But, as we all know, such good things often come to a tragic end, and the quickest way to make sure an entrepeneur, work out of the house, stay at home dad doesn’t get the kids is to accuse him of “touching” them. To make a long story short, Alan wound up in jail. SInce divorce proceedings were going on, and the business was an “asset” and she had half interest in the house- well, bail wasn’t forthcoming. Betty - Mrs. Alan - wasn’t about to let it happen.

Over the course of the next few weeks the case fell apart. (And in the end, even though coaching was found, it was never prosecuted - but the accusation was eventually used against him, but that is an old story to us guys.) Point is, though, Alan was in jail all those weeks. Lost his reputation. Lost his clients. Lost contracts. Today, he’s working a 40 hour drudge job trying to put his life back together still.

And, of course, he found himself the target of his brother inmate’s wrath as he got labeled a baby-fucker.

When Alan was initially questioned by police, this was used against him, too. He was reminded just what happened to child molesters inside. They threatened - and made good on - to spread it around if he didn’t - “co-operate.”

Once inside he had the contempt of guard and inmate alike. Every day it was something - herded to the blind spot to be beaten. Sodomized with a rolled-up newspaper. “Coincidentally” put in the cell where the door didn’t shut with the automatic lock. At dinner time his block would be “short” a tray - which wouldn’t be replaced for hours, and was cold when it was. He’d complain, and the screws would march the ones who did something to him off for 24 hours - tell them who snitched - and then march them back. Of course, they offered him protective custody in the form of solitary confinement.

Alan is a very different man today, to say the least. Angry. And broken. He almost wound up with a real conviction for assault after beating the snot out of one of his former jailers in a bar fight. The fact that the system would have been smeared by his very angry attorney in the doing got him off with a misdemeanor on that one - the only justice he’s ever had from the system. And there is a gulf between him and his daughter. Even though she was only 3 at the time, he’s still angry about it - and she’s ashamed. She started being sexually active at 12 thanks to a lot of this. She’ll tell you she acts like a slut because she is one - the slut that got her daddy put in jail. And her daddy is closer to her brothers. Who resent her. (Oh, let’s do Charlene, David, and Eddie, just to get the whole A-B-C-D-E thing going.) Nice family dynamic going there; enough dysfunction to keep a platoon of therapists employed for years.

Of course Betty doesn’t see the connection between pimping her daughter out for revenge and her current behavior, but what else is new with women like that? None of this is her fault. She was just trying to keep her proper - er - children. Never would’ve happened if Alan had been reasonable and just acceded to her every demand. He made her do it. And besides, if she’d done something wrong she’d have been prosecuted for it, wouldn’t she? Nope. Not her fault. Don’t blame her.

Now while this is pretty typical of the Family Injustice System, that’s just tangential. The problem with jailhouse justice is that it is staffed by cretins and crackheads. Alan hadn’t even had a trial, let alone a conviction in a regular court.

No, gentle readers. I am not sympathetic to Anthony Stockelman. Unlike feminists, I’m not going to defend him just because he shares sexual plumbing with me. I feel no pity for what has been done to an obviously guilty man. But I do feel pity for what was done to an obviously innocent man. And make no mistake, my brothers - you and me are just “Alans” waiting to happen in this fucked-up system where our “Y” chromosome is considered to be reasonable cause to lock us up on a mere accusation.

That’s the problem. The very thing that allowed Stockelman to get what was coming to him is what caused Alan to get what he didn’t have coming to him.

Because here’s the kicker, gents. The first person who was locked up for killing Katie was not Anthony Stockelman; and while the news of it is sanitized by now, around these parts that man’s “voluntary” confession is often met with the reply of “Well, I suppose if I was picked up by that sheriff on sharges of killing a kid, I might confess too.”

You think about that before you celebrate too hard. There but for the grace of God go you.

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