Pissed off, and helpless

I tend to be a sympathetic soul to those in need... especially good people that have problems... i tend to sympathize with their plight, see just how frustrated they are, helpless to do anything about it, and then give up on the things they want...

Two of my friends, since moving down here, (before i have known them) have been accused of child molestation... Ofcourse neither of them said they did it... seeming like really good people... i believe them... here are their basic stories:
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Story 1:

One, was accused of touching his nephew in-appropriately. This was done by his sister, yes, sister, in order to get him out of the house... (instead of kicking him out, apparently, the red-necked bitch, thought that since her brother is gay, there is only one place for him... prison.

He was 17 (i think) at the time of his conviction. No parents to guide him, an inscrupulous defense attourney (who didn't care about him at all) and a judge who wanted to put away another child mollester... despite that the evidence against him was just the child's words... no polygraph was taken, no other evidence of any kind was found... his life, is now ruined, trying to get a simple job, yet no-one will hire him. Living both homeless, or trying to live at people's place that take advantage of him and treat him like shit.. His life, is ruined... despite the lack of evidence... he was put away... btw... he's attracted to older guys... i have seen this first hand!

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Story 2

A young teacher gets a new house, has a fiance (female) and a new car. He's doing well for himself...

A couple red-necked parents get it in their heads, that if they pick a teacher (male teachers always work best for this...) to have their kids say they were touched (despite evidence) they could get him convicted, ruin his life, then do a civil suit, liquidate his house and get a windfall...

So they started the procedure... he was arrested, and evidence was taken... polygraph tests, (3 of them), a penile plethysmograph (which proved he was not attracted to children, and several other things that proved he was innocent.)

These were all thrown out, because the judge wanted to put away a child molestor... because, well... it looked good for the resume, and to get re-elected... So he was told, if it went to trial, the judge would see that he was put away for 200+ years, so he had to take a plea... His life is now ruined, trying to make a living for himself but not getting hired anywhere, he is going to be forced to leave his home...

Oh... by the way... despite the fact that the evidence was thrown out, there was not enough evidence for the parents to get anything in a civil suit, since it was just hearsay... so they burnt down his house... leaving him with nothing...

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I know these guys, and they are the sweetest guys around... I believe that they are innocent... (i could be wrong ofcourse, because i wasn't there...)

but this reminds me of when i was little. When i was like... oh.. i don't know... 8 or 9... i remember being tortured by my older brother and cousin (who were 4 years older than me, but 1 month apart from each other) holding me down and tickling me, taking stuff off of me and keeping it from me while laughing, and even went as far as to try to make me fall into a creek (we used to walk over a 2 planked bridge to school every day, it was very shakey... my cousin would walk across first, my brother would push me on the bridge... then they would jump on both sides to get me to fall in... though it never worked)... it was truely terrorizing... but i was helpless to do anything... i am sure my mother was sick of the stories when i used to tell (because i couldn't fight back) but that didn't stop them...

This is how i feel now... i thought we were supposed to live in a country where justice wins... not the courts... but people who are innocent, go free and the people who are not, are prosecuted... Here are 2 instances of a crooked court, and 2 young men's lives ruined... essentially forever... it really pisses me off... I have been trying to give them both ideas and leads for jobs... but they are coming up dry... they are both good guys and hard workers when given the chance... and they really don't deserve this...

but... what can be done? I would love to help them, but there isn't anything i can do. not without getting all wrapped up in their situations and than having false charges on me myself... and then i would go both ballistic, and i would shut down...

This feeling, is my biggest pet peeve. even bigger than the whole "not talking" thing... the bigger guy picking on, or ruining the little guy's life just because they can... I hope karma will bring them back as lab rats for what they have done... or worse yet... a parasite that feeds off of pond scum... that is fully aware of it's existance...

i am open to any suggestions people may have to help out my friends... if i was a millionaire, i would hire them both as personal assistants... but sadly, there isn't really anything i can do, but just hope things will really work out for the best for them both... and be furious at the system, of which, i do not know enough, or have enough energy or money, to tear down and expose...


epilogue:

oh... the end to that little story about my bro/cuz wanting me to fall into the creek by our house was when my older brother, decided to not pay attention to what he was doing... and fell into the creek himself on the way to school... They didn't do that again when they saw how much trouble he got into... and to be honest... i couldn't have asked for a better ending...

true story!