Thursday, June 28, 2012
Julian Assange Extradition: Jessica Schaefer The Victim Of Shawn Eugene Sullivan .
It would appear in the UK certain paedophiles have special priviledges. No extradition and certainly no justice for the victim . And if three year old Maddie McCann was raped and murdered by a close friend of her fathers, the parents including what may well be the perp are protected by the British Government.
Meanwhile, Jessica Schaefer this evening is a rape victim all over again.
Minnesota Waits For British Goverments Sarah Smith's Paedophile Husband Shawn Sullivan To Face Charges Of Rape !
For nearly two decades, Jessica Schaefer wondered if authorities would ever find the man who she says took away her innocence.
At age 11, she and her cousin told police that Shawn Eugene Sullivan, a male relative in his 20s, had exposed himself and groped them both in her grandparents' Eagan home. But before police could arrest him, he was gone.
For 17 years, Sullivan lived and traveled in Europe and elsewhere even as he was wanted in Minnesota. Finally, in the summer of 2010, an Eagan detective delivered news that brought Schaefer and her cousin some relief: Sullivan, now 43, had been arrested in London and prosecutors were working to bring him back. He faces criminal sexual conduct charges not only in their 1994 case, but also for allegations that he had raped a 14-year-old girl in Bloomington around that same time.
"I've waited for so long for the police to finally find Shawn," said Schaefer, now 29. "I'm at the point now where I'm angry and I'm fed up and I'm ready for some answers."
Sullivan denies the Minnesota charges and is fighting extradition. A hearing is set for Jan. 20. "He's not guilty," said Peter Wold, Sullivan's defense attorney in Minneapolis. "All these are, are allegations."
Sullivan told authorities he was already on parole for an unspecified violation in 1994, when he was living in Minnesota. For some of that time, he was living with relatives in Eagan, where he met Schaefer and her cousin.
In interviews this week, the women said that Sullivan, 24 at the time, was charming, taking them to lunch and treating them like adults, even though they were only 11. He horsed around a back-yard swimming pool with them, Schaefer said. He bought them gifts and let them sit on his lap to drive his truck.
The women, who still live in the Twin Cities area, said he also showed them photos of women, some naked and in sexually suggestive positions.
The girls told police in 1994 that Sullivan would come out of the shower wearing only a towel and would drop it or position it so the girls could see his genitals, according to a criminal complaint. While they were in his room using a computer, the girls told police, he lay on the bed with them one at a time, rubbed their legs and slipped his hand inside their shorts.
"He would tell us that we're the ones that make him do this," Schaefer said in the interview.
In the Bloomington case, Sullivan allegedly met a 14-year-girl at an oil-change shop. He took her for a ride, parked the vehicle and gave her vodka and peach schnapps, according to the complaint. The girl passed out in the back seat and told police she woke up to find Sullivan having sex with her, according to the charges.
Hannah Treziok, now 32, said the past 18 years have been "a horrible roller coaster ride." She said she went to the shop to see a boy who worked there, and that the boy told her to go for a ride with Sullivan while workers finished up and closed the business for the day. She went, thinking it was safe because shop workers knew Sullivan, she said. She immediately reported the rape after he dropped her off at 2:30 a.m., according to the complaint.
Minnesota officials said a warrant for Sullivan's arrest was issued in March 1994.
"It just seems to me that's the kind of person that deserves to be stopped," said Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, one of two county attorneys seeking Sullivan's extradition.
What Sullivan says
Wold said making accusations is "easy" and something that "happens all the time."
In London court proceedings last year, Sullivan said he left the United States in early 1994, shortly after being questioned by police about the Eagan allegations. He told court officials that he thought the matter had been resolved and that he was unaware of the Bloomington allegations until he was arrested by British authorities in 2010.
However, a London judge concluded that Sullivan fled the United States and never returned to visit his family because he feared prosecution. The judge also found that Sullivan obtained an Irish passport, spelling his name in Gaelic and making it hard to link to his American name.
Sullivan was sentenced in Ireland for an unspecified criminal offense in 1997, a British court document shows. The judge said the case apparently involved a sexual offense against a child. Irish and British newspapers reported that Sullivan got a suspended jail sentence for sexually assaulting two 12-year-old girls.
Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom said authorities heard Sullivan was in Ireland but he was gone before they could file extradition documents. Sullivan was also arrested but not detained in Switzerland after he used a card with the American spelling of his name, according to court records.
In 2007, Interpol notified 190 member countries that a warrant had been issued for Sullivan's arrest. Sullivan gave a false name to police when they showed up to take him into custody last year, court records show. British authorities signed the extradition order in February.
Backstrom said Sullivan's European attorneys are opposing extradition in part by arguing that Sullivan could be civilly committed as a predatory offender if he is returned to the United States -- something that could amount to a life sentence in Minnesota. Backstrom and other prosecutors have challenged that claim as pure speculation.
Sullivan's extradition also could be complicated by his reported marriage to an employee of Britain's Ministry of Justice, which oversees the courts. Sullivan married Sarah Louise Smith in a jailhouse ceremony in 2010. A report in London's Sun said the marriage allows Sullivan to fight extradition by claiming it will destroy his family.
'I'm putting a stop to this'
"When I found out he married this lady that has connections with the Ministry of Justice ... it was like, no more," Schaefer said. "I'm putting a stop to this. I mean, it's not fair that he's living his life the way that he intended to and not have any consequences or be held accountable for his actions."
Schaefer said the past 18 years have brought a stream of nightmares and therapy. She said she is distrustful of others and fears something happening to her young daughter.
Schaefer's cousin, who didn't want her name used, said she didn't talk about the incident for years -- not to a therapist, not to friends, not to family. She felt sick when she heard reports of children being molested and tensed up whenever she saw a red and white Ford Bronco like the one Sullivan used to drive.
Treziok, who also still lives in Minnesota, said the Bloomington incident has shaped her life in major ways; she has gone through therapy and has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, she said.
"I felt like I did what I was supposed to do," she said. "I reported the assault right away trying to not only, you know, serve other girls, but do the right thing ... I feel like my justice escaped with him."
She went to school for criminal justice, she said, so she could help other victims.
"It's just an attempt to see justice in any way that I can," she said. "And make sure that if I can't have my justice, other people are getting theirs."
London freelance writer Ian Evans contributed to this report. Photo by London Media. Pam Louwagie • 612-673-7102
.....read full article
http://www.startribune.com/local/south/134474288.html
http://sexoffendersinpositionsofpower.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/extradition-paedophile-americas-most.htmlhttp://sexoffendersinpositionsofpower.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/blog-post.html
At age 11, she and her cousin told police that Shawn Eugene Sullivan, a male relative in his 20s, had exposed himself and groped them both in her grandparents' Eagan home. But before police could arrest him, he was gone.
For 17 years, Sullivan lived and traveled in Europe and elsewhere even as he was wanted in Minnesota. Finally, in the summer of 2010, an Eagan detective delivered news that brought Schaefer and her cousin some relief: Sullivan, now 43, had been arrested in London and prosecutors were working to bring him back. He faces criminal sexual conduct charges not only in their 1994 case, but also for allegations that he had raped a 14-year-old girl in Bloomington around that same time.
"I've waited for so long for the police to finally find Shawn," said Schaefer, now 29. "I'm at the point now where I'm angry and I'm fed up and I'm ready for some answers."
Sullivan denies the Minnesota charges and is fighting extradition. A hearing is set for Jan. 20. "He's not guilty," said Peter Wold, Sullivan's defense attorney in Minneapolis. "All these are, are allegations."
Sullivan told authorities he was already on parole for an unspecified violation in 1994, when he was living in Minnesota. For some of that time, he was living with relatives in Eagan, where he met Schaefer and her cousin.
In interviews this week, the women said that Sullivan, 24 at the time, was charming, taking them to lunch and treating them like adults, even though they were only 11. He horsed around a back-yard swimming pool with them, Schaefer said. He bought them gifts and let them sit on his lap to drive his truck.
The women, who still live in the Twin Cities area, said he also showed them photos of women, some naked and in sexually suggestive positions.
The girls told police in 1994 that Sullivan would come out of the shower wearing only a towel and would drop it or position it so the girls could see his genitals, according to a criminal complaint. While they were in his room using a computer, the girls told police, he lay on the bed with them one at a time, rubbed their legs and slipped his hand inside their shorts.
"He would tell us that we're the ones that make him do this," Schaefer said in the interview.
In the Bloomington case, Sullivan allegedly met a 14-year-girl at an oil-change shop. He took her for a ride, parked the vehicle and gave her vodka and peach schnapps, according to the complaint. The girl passed out in the back seat and told police she woke up to find Sullivan having sex with her, according to the charges.
Hannah Treziok, now 32, said the past 18 years have been "a horrible roller coaster ride." She said she went to the shop to see a boy who worked there, and that the boy told her to go for a ride with Sullivan while workers finished up and closed the business for the day. She went, thinking it was safe because shop workers knew Sullivan, she said. She immediately reported the rape after he dropped her off at 2:30 a.m., according to the complaint.
Minnesota officials said a warrant for Sullivan's arrest was issued in March 1994.
"It just seems to me that's the kind of person that deserves to be stopped," said Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, one of two county attorneys seeking Sullivan's extradition.
What Sullivan says
Wold said making accusations is "easy" and something that "happens all the time."
In London court proceedings last year, Sullivan said he left the United States in early 1994, shortly after being questioned by police about the Eagan allegations. He told court officials that he thought the matter had been resolved and that he was unaware of the Bloomington allegations until he was arrested by British authorities in 2010.
However, a London judge concluded that Sullivan fled the United States and never returned to visit his family because he feared prosecution. The judge also found that Sullivan obtained an Irish passport, spelling his name in Gaelic and making it hard to link to his American name.
Sullivan was sentenced in Ireland for an unspecified criminal offense in 1997, a British court document shows. The judge said the case apparently involved a sexual offense against a child. Irish and British newspapers reported that Sullivan got a suspended jail sentence for sexually assaulting two 12-year-old girls.
Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom said authorities heard Sullivan was in Ireland but he was gone before they could file extradition documents. Sullivan was also arrested but not detained in Switzerland after he used a card with the American spelling of his name, according to court records.
In 2007, Interpol notified 190 member countries that a warrant had been issued for Sullivan's arrest. Sullivan gave a false name to police when they showed up to take him into custody last year, court records show. British authorities signed the extradition order in February.
Backstrom said Sullivan's European attorneys are opposing extradition in part by arguing that Sullivan could be civilly committed as a predatory offender if he is returned to the United States -- something that could amount to a life sentence in Minnesota. Backstrom and other prosecutors have challenged that claim as pure speculation.
Sullivan's extradition also could be complicated by his reported marriage to an employee of Britain's Ministry of Justice, which oversees the courts. Sullivan married Sarah Louise Smith in a jailhouse ceremony in 2010. A report in London's Sun said the marriage allows Sullivan to fight extradition by claiming it will destroy his family.
'I'm putting a stop to this'
"When I found out he married this lady that has connections with the Ministry of Justice ... it was like, no more," Schaefer said. "I'm putting a stop to this. I mean, it's not fair that he's living his life the way that he intended to and not have any consequences or be held accountable for his actions."
Schaefer said the past 18 years have brought a stream of nightmares and therapy. She said she is distrustful of others and fears something happening to her young daughter.
Schaefer's cousin, who didn't want her name used, said she didn't talk about the incident for years -- not to a therapist, not to friends, not to family. She felt sick when she heard reports of children being molested and tensed up whenever she saw a red and white Ford Bronco like the one Sullivan used to drive.
Treziok, who also still lives in Minnesota, said the Bloomington incident has shaped her life in major ways; she has gone through therapy and has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, she said.
"I felt like I did what I was supposed to do," she said. "I reported the assault right away trying to not only, you know, serve other girls, but do the right thing ... I feel like my justice escaped with him."
She went to school for criminal justice, she said, so she could help other victims.
"It's just an attempt to see justice in any way that I can," she said. "And make sure that if I can't have my justice, other people are getting theirs."
London freelance writer Ian Evans contributed to this report. Photo by London Media. Pam Louwagie • 612-673-7102
.....read full article
http://www.startribune.com/local/south/134474288.html
http://sexoffendersinpositionsofpower.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/extradition-paedophile-americas-most.htmlhttp://sexoffendersinpositionsofpower.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/blog-post.html
Julian Assange : Alleged Paedophile Allegations By NHS Doctor - Dr. David Payne Allows Government Protection For The McCanns.
Paedophiles protected by the British Government , can this be true ? No extradition for paedophiles.
http://thetapas9drdavidpayne.blogspot.com.es/2012/02/david-payne-may-hold-key-to-maddie.html
http://thetapas9drdavidpayne.blogspot.com.es/2012/02/david-payne-may-hold-key-to-maddie.html
Sullivan, who has a previous conviction for assaulting two girls in Ireland and was on an Interpol most-wanted list, is now the 10th person in recent years to see their extradition to the US blocked by either the courts or Home Secretary in this country. Photo: LONDON MEDIA
Julian Assange : Great Shame Julian Was Not An Alleged Paedophile ! U.K. Double Standards.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9362298/Paedophile-spared-extradition-to-US-on-human-rights-grounds.html
Sullivan, who has a previous conviction for assaulting two girls in Ireland and was on an Interpol most-wanted list, is now the 10th person in recent years to see their extradition to the US blocked by either the courts or Home Secretary in this country. Photo: LONDON MEDIA
Etradition:Assange ordered to UK police station: First step in extradition process....
The McCanns are involved in the disappearnce of their daughter and treated like royalty by the British Government. Where paedophile allegations involving this group have been held back by Leicester police to protect a bunch of NHS medics ! Has Ecuador buckled to the is type of a corrupt judicial system ?
London police have issued an order for whistleblower Julian Assange to appear at a police station to begin the extradition process. The Wikileaks founder is in the Ecuadorian embassy, appealing for asylum on grounds of political persecution.
London Metropolitan police delivered an order calling for the Australian to come to Belgravia police station in central London on Thursday.
Assange is currently liable for arrest by the UK police should he leave the embassy on the basis that he violated his bail conditions.
He arrived at the Ecuadorian Embassy last Tuesday, appealing for Asylum from the country’s government. Assange hopes to sidestep his removal to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual abuse.
He has voiced fears that Stockholm may turn him over to US jurisdiction where he could be tried on charges of espionage. The publishing of thousands of diplomatic wires on the Wikileaks site prompted a wave of aggressive rhetoric from US politicians branding the whistleblower as a terrorist.
The Ecuadorian government has said that it is no hurry to reach a conclusion over Assange’s appeal. President Rafael Correa stressed his government was considering the legal and political consequences of granting asylum and that it had not set a deadline for the decision. He has recalled the UK ambassador to Ecuador to assess the situation.
"We will come to a decision as a sovereign nation which doesn't exclude the possibility of consulting with friendly nations," said the president on Tuesday.
Julian Assange said that he sought protection from the Ecuadorian government because he had been abandoned by Canberra.
The Australian government disputes this, arguing that they are powerless to intervene as he has broken no Australian laws.
Asssange has maintained throughout the drawn-out trial that the allegations set against him are depthless and politically-motivated
http://on.rt.com/jovzo8
London police have issued an order for whistleblower Julian Assange to appear at a police station to begin the extradition process. The Wikileaks founder is in the Ecuadorian embassy, appealing for asylum on grounds of political persecution.
London Metropolitan police delivered an order calling for the Australian to come to Belgravia police station in central London on Thursday.
Assange is currently liable for arrest by the UK police should he leave the embassy on the basis that he violated his bail conditions.
He arrived at the Ecuadorian Embassy last Tuesday, appealing for Asylum from the country’s government. Assange hopes to sidestep his removal to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual abuse.
He has voiced fears that Stockholm may turn him over to US jurisdiction where he could be tried on charges of espionage. The publishing of thousands of diplomatic wires on the Wikileaks site prompted a wave of aggressive rhetoric from US politicians branding the whistleblower as a terrorist.
The Ecuadorian government has said that it is no hurry to reach a conclusion over Assange’s appeal. President Rafael Correa stressed his government was considering the legal and political consequences of granting asylum and that it had not set a deadline for the decision. He has recalled the UK ambassador to Ecuador to assess the situation.
"We will come to a decision as a sovereign nation which doesn't exclude the possibility of consulting with friendly nations," said the president on Tuesday.
Julian Assange said that he sought protection from the Ecuadorian government because he had been abandoned by Canberra.
The Australian government disputes this, arguing that they are powerless to intervene as he has broken no Australian laws.
Asssange has maintained throughout the drawn-out trial that the allegations set against him are depthless and politically-motivated
http://on.rt.com/jovzo8
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Julian Assange: How Julian Could Escape From Britain.
We’ve learned to expect the unexpected in the case of Julian Assange: his case always seems to throw up one more unusual legal twist. Which is astonishing in what is, in reality, a straightforward case of a proper and lawful European Arrest Warrant.
Assuming Assange’s bail conditions remained similar to those initially imposed, he must have breached his bail conditions by failing regularly to report to a police station in the last few days, and by not staying overnight at an address agreed with prosecutors. That breach of bail conditions is what renders him liable to immediate arrest.
I’m not sure that the breach makes those who stood surety for him liable to forfeit the money they offered. Their role is to guarantee his turning up at his next court or extradition appointment, rather than to vouch for his sticking by all his bail conditions.
But Assange is safe from arrest inside the Ecuadorian embassy because of a different Vienna Convention – this time the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. It’s clear, then, that Assange cannot be arrested so long as the Ecuadorians protect him inside their embassy. It is worth noting though that the Ecuadorians could, if they wanted to, invite the police in to make their arrest.
Julian Assange is now at the mercy of Ecuador.
But it doesn’t follow that refugee status in itself would give Assange any sort of right to leave the UK unmolested. The real legal question is whether there’s any legal way Assange can bring himself within some sort of legal immunity from arrest so as to enable him to get out of the embassy and on a flight to Quito.
So – can he?.....read more
Assuming Assange’s bail conditions remained similar to those initially imposed, he must have breached his bail conditions by failing regularly to report to a police station in the last few days, and by not staying overnight at an address agreed with prosecutors. That breach of bail conditions is what renders him liable to immediate arrest.
I’m not sure that the breach makes those who stood surety for him liable to forfeit the money they offered. Their role is to guarantee his turning up at his next court or extradition appointment, rather than to vouch for his sticking by all his bail conditions.
But Assange is safe from arrest inside the Ecuadorian embassy because of a different Vienna Convention – this time the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. It’s clear, then, that Assange cannot be arrested so long as the Ecuadorians protect him inside their embassy. It is worth noting though that the Ecuadorians could, if they wanted to, invite the police in to make their arrest.
Julian Assange is now at the mercy of Ecuador.
But it doesn’t follow that refugee status in itself would give Assange any sort of right to leave the UK unmolested. The real legal question is whether there’s any legal way Assange can bring himself within some sort of legal immunity from arrest so as to enable him to get out of the embassy and on a flight to Quito.
So – can he?.....read more
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/06/26/here-are-the-ways-julian-assange-could-escape-from-britain/
Monday, June 25, 2012
#Assange: #Australia - Stand By Our Man.
This could be interesting, Cameron has screwed Rupert Murdoch nicely in the UK. Cameron is only where he is because of Murdoch. Cameron and Obama will have done a deal over Assange....However, Murdoch is stronger than both of them when it comes to the media...he gets them the votes and makes them heads of states. Murdoch wants revenge and his aim is to destroy Cameron...Assange may be the weapon that helps him to achieve that goal...lets hope so.
Article.
AUSTRALIAN leaders like to claim, disingenuously, that a characteristic of the alliance with America is that Australia reserves the right to object, in a friendly if forceful way, with US policy or decisions.
No such objections have ever been publicly expressed. It is time to test it.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/stand-by-our-man-australia/story-fn6bfkm6-1226406480552
Article.
AUSTRALIAN leaders like to claim, disingenuously, that a characteristic of the alliance with America is that Australia reserves the right to object, in a friendly if forceful way, with US policy or decisions.
No such objections have ever been publicly expressed. It is time to test it.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/stand-by-our-man-australia/story-fn6bfkm6-1226406480552
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