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| Date: February 7, 2008 12:00:03 PM EST
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| Subject: The Robert Pierson Article on ED
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| Dear ED Site Administrators:
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| I am writing to you on behalf of my son, whom you know on your site as Pokchu, and who is now in legal dire straits due to this
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| http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Robert_Pierson
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| In its current state, it is far less than an inflammatory ridicule of both a murdered boy and his mourning sister. However, because
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| of its original content and the fact that Pierson's sisters were able to correctly deduce that my son is the author, the police came
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| to our house last night and spoke to my husband and me as well as our son about the grave situation. We are very concerned, and
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| because we know you like our son, I hope you are concerned as well.
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| In Pennsylvania, where we live, we now have hate-crime legislation that could be used to bring charges against our son for this
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| article and federal statues regarding computer use could also come into play. He risks being a convicted felon at the age of 15
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| because of this article. That is how serious this is. He cannot simply deny that he wrote the article; his user name is too closely
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| and definitely associated with his identity, so that ship has sailed, I'm afraid.
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| You wrote, "Writing internet articles is not something worth pursuing against a 14 year old who has no assets." That's not quite true.
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| He has assets: his parents. We face losing our house and all of our savings if we need to pay for legal counsel to defend him in
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| court, and a 15 year old boy risks losing his place in a wonderful high school and going to juvie. Repeatedly reposting the
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| original article content is compromising his ability to make things right and alle
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| Right now you face the possibility of soon receiving a Cease & Desist order from the Piersons' lawyer if you do not stop reinstating
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| the offensive content that our son has deleted/altered; the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and/or Illinois could charge you with
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| corrupting the morals of a minor for misleading our son into believing that the previous content did not violate both state and
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| federal hate crime laws, and for failing to police your own site and reposting del
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| All you need to do to avoid all of the above is to stop reinstating the original content. Please do us all a favor and allow the
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| current content to stand; then we may have a chance of doing some damage-control with the Pierson family and defusing a very tense
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| situation that could still have a permanent negative effect on our son's life.
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| Sincerely,
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| Barbara Purdom </pre>
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