With more than 36 years experience as a private investigator, in 1989, I began to devote my practice exclusively to studies and cases dealing with false allegations of child sexual abuse, criminal defense, legal malpractice and overturning convictions for the innocent. Education has included attending numerous seminars, a vast amount of legal research, case history studies and conducting interviews with experts worldwide, including child advocates, judges, attorneys, medical doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, research specialists, professors, investigators plus prior victims of false allegations and their families.

My interest and obsession with these cases originated after observing the aftermath of three cases where there was absolutely no abuse whatsoever, yet the victims of the allegations were all but destroyed.

In the first, what began as a child custody investigation, we had been retained by a child's father to gather evidence that the child's mother was unfit. That evidence was obtained and the father filed a complaint asking the courts to award him the custody of his daughter.

Almost immediately after the complaint was filed by the father, he was arrested and charged with sexually molesting his daughter. There had never been even a hint of sexual misconduct on the part of the father prior to his filing his petition asking for the custody of his daughter.

Following his arrest, I talked at length with my client's attorneys regarding the allegations. Laughingly, they told me that no investigation was necessary because anyone could see that the charges were false and why the mother had filed them. They even went so far as to state that they were not concerned, but obviously, that opinion quickly changed when a jury heard his child testify and convicted him.

In the second case, one that we followed to the end, I received my initial telephone call from a mother in Colorado, who told me that she was married, but separated and that her nine-year-old son had been sexually abused by her husband while they were living in Arizona. She said she wanted me to prove it.

I went to Colorado and spent a great deal of time with the mother and her son. There were police agencies involved in Arizona and in Colorado, but no arrests had been made. The young boy had successfully passed a lie detector test stating that he had been abused and was seeing several counselors, who were also convinced he had been sexually molested.

As a bit of history, the mother had lived in Arizona and worked as a singer with a band at a resort where she met her husband. After he showered her with money and promises of furthering her career, she married him. They moved to Colorado and shortly thereafter, he left her. She had no job and all the promises made to her, career wise, vanished.

There was a great deal of investigative work involved, including the fact that I was able to get this woman's job back for her in Arizona. She did not leave that job in the best of standing when she married and departed for Colorado with very little or no notice.

After spending quite a bit of time with her son, especially while she worked evenings, we developed a close enough relationship where he felt comfortable talking to me. I never pressured him with any questions regarding the alleged abuse, but one night as we were sitting at a table in the kitchen playing a game, he looked at me and said, "you know it didn't happen, don't you." I told him I didn't know and asked him if he wanted to talk about it.

He began by telling me that his mother married "that man," with a great deal of hate in his voice. Then, crying, he continued by saying that he and his mother had moved to Colorado with "him" and almost immediately thereafter, he left them. He said it hurt his mama and she cried a lot.

One night, as he watched, she stood in the utility room where her washing machine was, crying and beating the washer and dryer with a hammer. He had never seen his mother hurt like that and knew "that man" caused it. All he could think about was hurting the man who hurt his mother so he told her the man touched him.

We talked about it for quite a while after which we drove and picked his mother up from work. When arrived back home, we all sat down and I explained that her son had something he wanted to tell her. He broke down crying and told her that he had lied. She was speechless and asked him, "how could you do this to me." I explained to her how he had been hurt and that he was striking back because of his love for her. More importantly, I told her that she could thank God he had not been molested. She calmed down and appeared to accept it.

The following day, as we were driving to the airport for me to return to Mississippi, the mother asked me what she should tell her mother. I told her to tell the truth and to explain why he had made the accusations.

I returned to Jackson, Mississippi feeling very good that the problem had worked itself out and that the young boy was not molested, but that was short lived. The following day I received a telephone call from the mother. She was hysterical. She told me that I was a fraud, said that her son had been molested, said she wanted her money back and told me I would be hearing from her attorney. She abruptly hung up without allowing me to offer any response or ask any questions.

Shortly thereafter I received a letter from a local attorney threatening me with everything from fraud to extortion and demanding that the fee I had received be returned to my client. I responded by advising him to do whatever he felt he needed to do. That attorney had been given only one side, yet was quick to label me as a fraud.

The fact was, her son was never molested and when he told his mother he had lied, that was a source of extreme embarrassment for her so she pressured him until he had no choice other than to return to his original story which made me a fraud. Was I? Well, the same woman contacted my office approximately one year later. I was not available, but she told my office manager that I had been right. She said that her son had not been molested and that she reconciled with the very man her son claimed had sexually molested him. That young boy was never molested, yet he convinced a polygraph examiner, several investigators and several therapists that he had been.

Amazingly, I talked to one of the polygraph examiners who tested the boy and who told me that the boy did have problems with the test, but he attributed that to nervousness. He stated flatly that he was not concerned about the test results and that he was positive the boy was not lying because being sexually abused was not something a 9-year old would lie about.

The third case involved a man who was convicted and sentenced to thirty-two years in prison, based on charges that he sexually molested two of his daughters and his niece. Without question, he was innocent. I assisted that boy's family prior to his trial and obtained sworn affidavits from his daughters, stating that they had never been molested. His daughters even testified at his trial that they were not molested, but because a state appointed psychologist said it was her opinion that they had been, he was convicted.

Because cases such as these prove that "false allegations" are real and destroy people, we began specializing in defense preparation aimed at keeping innocent people from being convicted.

In addition to our investigative efforts in the area of false allegations of sexual abuse, our extensive research has aided us in assisting many of our clients, acting Pro Se, (without an attorney), in their preparation of Appellant Briefs for the Supreme Court, Petitions for Writ of Habeas Corpus and with civil complaints they filed against district attorneys, their former attorneys, psychologists and so-called child advocates. In those cases, we were not attempting to practice law nor presenting ourself to anyone as being an attorney. We simply had no alternative. These clients had no attorney and in many cases were convicted simply because of ineffective assistance of counsel.

The shame of it is, there are hundreds of people in prison, charged with sexual abuse, who are honestly innocent. In many of those cases, children got mad, made an accusation that they were abused and our "system professionals" simply validated the accusations but made no effort whatsoever to determine the real truth. This is a perfect example of our system being completely out-of-control. These cases are extremely difficult simply because you must be prepared to fight an entire system that includes district attorneys, attorneys, psychologists, social services, child advocates, law enforcement, youth courts and others. Not many are willing to do that, but we are and will continue to do so.

In short, we are willing to travel anywhere and challenge any opposition necessary to right an injustice, even when others say it can't be done. Something can't be done only when there is no real desire to do it. That is one of the major reasons why there are innocent people in prison today. No one really cared enough to do what was necessary to prove their innocence. The truth can always be found. If it isn't, the right person was not looking in the right place. The "dragon" wins only if someone allows it.