IIOC police investigation- so scared of what will happen
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:55 am
At the end of january this year, when my baby was 2weeks old, police came to myself and my husbands home with a search warrant for IIOC and took all electronics in the house. It was traumatising but we were very quickly reassured by police that they knew immediately that it wasnt us that had commited the crime and they realised quickly it was my younger brother who had lived with us until 2days prior to the raid (typical). They arrested my brother, and long story short after quickly checking his devices within a few weeks couldnt find the evidence. I must note that they did not take a laptop or a desktop computer he had, the laptop he claimed to have lost and the desktop he had got my dad to throw in the recycling centre for him when he moved the couple of days before because he said it was broken. Anyway, as far as we were always made aware they said it was unfortunate that we were caught up in everything and my husband had been ringing every few weeka asking them to hurry up and check our stuff so we could get them back.
Fast forward to 2 weeks ago and the police detectives came to the house apparently to return our things, and then told us that they had actually found 14 extreme pornography images on an old laptop that hadnt been able to be switched on for about 8 years and 11 IIOC on our current working laptop. Myself and my husband have absolutely no idea how the images have gotten on the computer but i am 100% sure that it was nothing deliberate. Both myself and my husband had access to the computers so i dont know what will happen. I dont know if they could charge us both and bring us both to court even if we have both said we dont know how they got there. The policeman asked us to come to the station for voluntary interviews after he gets back from annual leave (he was going off for 4 weeks).
He said that he was re referring to social services as they had asked if there were amy changes in the investigation (they came out and done an initial assessment but felt no further action or input was needed then). My son has just turned 7 months and i am 6 weeks pregnant with my second. I feel like my whole world is crumbling around me. I dont know what social services can do...can they take my son away from us?! Can they say we are both a risk to him? Will he go onto the child protection register? We love our son with all our hearts and i wouldnt survive without him. Both of our jobs involve working with children so if we ended up getting charged with this we would lose our jobs, our names would also definitely be printed in local media and we wouldnt be safe to live where we do. Theres just so much im scared about. Thanks
Fast forward to 2 weeks ago and the police detectives came to the house apparently to return our things, and then told us that they had actually found 14 extreme pornography images on an old laptop that hadnt been able to be switched on for about 8 years and 11 IIOC on our current working laptop. Myself and my husband have absolutely no idea how the images have gotten on the computer but i am 100% sure that it was nothing deliberate. Both myself and my husband had access to the computers so i dont know what will happen. I dont know if they could charge us both and bring us both to court even if we have both said we dont know how they got there. The policeman asked us to come to the station for voluntary interviews after he gets back from annual leave (he was going off for 4 weeks).
He said that he was re referring to social services as they had asked if there were amy changes in the investigation (they came out and done an initial assessment but felt no further action or input was needed then). My son has just turned 7 months and i am 6 weeks pregnant with my second. I feel like my whole world is crumbling around me. I dont know what social services can do...can they take my son away from us?! Can they say we are both a risk to him? Will he go onto the child protection register? We love our son with all our hearts and i wouldnt survive without him. Both of our jobs involve working with children so if we ended up getting charged with this we would lose our jobs, our names would also definitely be printed in local media and we wouldnt be safe to live where we do. Theres just so much im scared about. Thanks