Mike Silva could be a sex offender who molested his daughters, from who he’s estranged. Or he could be a victim of a false accusation of molestation during a custody battle, and of Parental Alienation. Sadly, we may never know.
Man once on sex offender list faces fearful San Jose parents
By Kim Vo
San Jose Mercury News, 4/13/07
In a heated exchange, San Jose residents confronted a man Thursday who was once on the public sex-offender list and now wants to sell coffee in a community library.
“If you’re in the building, we’ll take our kids out of the building,” said an Almaden Valley resident, who only gave his name as “Will.”
The “you” was Mike Silva, who arranged the meeting at the Almaden branch library after neighbors grew alarmed that a man once on the Megan’s Law database wanted to open a coffee stand there. Silva is off the list now, but must still annually register with police as a sex offender after originally being charged with molesting his two daughters.
“I’m not a threat to this community,” Silva told the audience of about 20 people, which included a mix of friends and concerned parents.
When Silva, 58, tried to open a coffee stand last fall, a patron recognized his photo from the database. Since then, Silva has tried to tell people that he landed on the public sex offender list after his ex-wife accused him of molesting his daughters during a custody battle in 1989. A police investigator who looked into the case at the time says the accusations were true.
Silva contends he accepted a plea bargain to spare his children from a difficult cross-examination on the stand – and that a no-contest plea was how he ended up on the database. He served five years probation and the charge was eventually reduced to a misdemeanor, he said. (more…)
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