I have been a detainee for over ten years in the Florida Civil Commitment Center and although I have been allowed appeals in our legal system, I have been denied justice and fair play contrary to the promises of the Constitutional guarantees of the amendments: IV Probable Cause, V Double Jeopardy, VI Right to a Speedy Trial, and XIV Due Process. The Jimmy Ryce Statute came into effect January 1, 1999 and was immediately applied retroactively to anyone leaving the prison system. I was fair game for the collective forces of the judiciary and investigative agencies at work in the State of Florida having taken a plea bargain to avoid more arrests of the Glendale staff. Guantanamo Bay detainees are suspected of terrorizing certain military or civil populations. I am suspected of being a threat to juveniles sometime in the future if I am released unless I successfully conclude a sex offender treatment program to prevent further “terrorist” activities on my part in society. There is no accommodation in the program here at FCCC for someone like myself who maintains his innocence. In actuality, there are not enough places available for those who do wish to take the program and they linger for months, even years, without receiving the help for which they are being detained.
Excerpt from Barak Obama’s speech, Remarks on National Security May 21.2009:
“…In the long run, we also cannot keep this country safe unless we enlist the power of our most fundamental values. The documents that we hold in this very hail the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights… are the foundation of liberty and justice in this country, and a light that shines for all who seek freedom, fairness, equality and dignity in the world. Instead of using the flawed commissions of the last seven years, my administration is bringing our commissions in line with the rule of law. The rule will no longer permit us to use as evidence statements that have been obtained using cruel, inhuman, or degrading interrogation methods. We will no longer place the burden to prove that hearsay is unreliable on the opponent of the hearsay. And we will give detainees greater latitude in selecting their own counsel, and more protections if they refuse to testify.”
My name is James Toward, charged with sexual abuse of six pre-school boys of the Glendale Montessori School and I took a plea- agreement of guilty-while-maintaining-my-innocence (Alford Plea) and accepted a sentence of 27 years plus 10 years probation with the stipulation that I could leave the country permanently in lieu of probation. I have spent twenty years concerned about the mental health of the Glendale children, although I don’t take responsibility for the reaction of the parents — they were all intelligent successful adults and had the choice not to go so quickly into becoming part of the herd being rounded up to sue the school. A majority of the parents did not go that route and now twenty years later have young adult sons without the stigma of the “Witch Hunt” carried out at Glendale. Also there were a few of the parents who did not believe their children had been harmed but were attracted by the offer of free money — those parents made their own deal. I feel deeply for the suffering my office manager, Brenda, has gone through and is still going through. She was dedicated to and deeply loved the children of the school. The sudden attack on my family by the authorities became a full scale slaughter with mercy for none after a number of families got into the action. The accusations went from abuse to Satanic Ritual Abuse in record time. We lost our business, home, family unity, and community’s respect. My family endured extreme cruelty at the hands of the authorities, local and state, we continue to suffer extreme cruelty under the Civil Commitment Act. We will go to civil trial and we welcome the support of those parents and grown-up students who wish to help erase the ongoing fatal attraction to a collective nightmare which should never have happened.
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