Some edits were made for clarity. Names were redacted by Missouri Prison Reform.
“My name is Donnie L. Jackson, and I was convicted of attempted statutory rape and two counts of attempted statutory sodomy, I did not commit. My story is like this: In 2000, I got out of prison after doing 17 yrs. I got out found a job driving an Airport Shuttle while going to school in the evening and during this time I met this woman let’s call her Person 1 and she had three children. I had no intention on being with this woman because she had children. But we had sex and that’s a woman’s hook for a man especially a man that’s been gone for 17 yrs. She laid this homeless story on me and before I knew it, we were a family which was supposed to have been for a short time, besides I had another woman staying with me, Person 2. Speeding forward fights erupted between Person 1 and Person 2, because me and Person 1 were no longer having sex and Person 1 didn’t like that she wanted to be the woman. During one of their fights Person 1 tried to cut Person 2, I tried to stop Person 1 and she cut my left forearm instead, I had to get “ten” stitches. Person 1 asked me not to say anything they would take her children, (red flag, I didn’t pay attention), so I give some fake story to the hospital. Later, I made Person 1 leave and at about 2:00 am, Person 2 wakes me up telling me look out the window and sure enough Person 1 and her three children were sleeping in her car in front of my apt. Person 2 said we can’t leave them sleeping in the car and it was around fall so it was cold. Fine, I said and went down got the children out of the car and told Person 1 they could stay but she should thank Person 2. Eventually Person 2 moved on and in 2002, I was able to rent Person 1’s grandmother’s house in Berkeley during this time Person 1 had been going to her mother’s house more than normal and I found out she had been meeting her ex-boyfriend there, the end of our relationship was coming. Person 1 had gotten a job working at a bank and we had a son. I enjoyed spending time with my son and nothing else mattered, when I was off work or went in later, I would take lunch to Person 1 my son was always with me except when I had to go to work. Person 1 would take my son and her other children over to her mother’s house, I didn’t get off work until 10 pm, I didn’t get home until about 11:00 pm I worked as a hair stylist in Ellisville. One day when I came home, it was a Friday, I got home early that day around 4 pm and Person 1 and her daughter *** began telling me about this guy at her school. Anyway, Person 1 and her daughter tells me about this gym teacher at her school keep bothering her, trying to get her to go home with him, and won’t let her go to her other classes. So come Monday this in June after the 12th, so we go to the school, I confront the principal about what the child said and she assured me it couldn’t be true *******, is his name, was a good Christian. So, me the principal, Person 1, the teacher and another teacher we go and sit in this classroom to discuss the issue, but the funny thing is we sit up front and Person 1 sits all the way at the back of the class room. I saw the odd expression on the principal’s face, so I turned and asked if Person 1 wanted to sit up front and she said no. So, proceeded to question the teacher about what the child said all the while the principal is saying what a good Christian he is, but once the man come out admitted to having some form of contact with ***, I turn to Person 1 and ask what do U want to do? Do U want to call the Police? I couldn’t believe she said No! I really didn’t know what to say or do after that and once the principal asked was I the father, I said no, U could hear the relief, so finally the principal agreed to removing *** from the teacher’s class and he was not to have any further contact with her. Person 1 said that was good enough for her. I got up and left I went to work and later that week or the next day I moved out. I had left my two-bedroom apt to my mom, so I moved in with her. Me and Person 1 went from bad to worse, she would follow me when I would go to a motel with a woman, she would make a scene and would tell her in front of my date that Person 1 was not my woman it was over between us, me and my date would leave. After I discovered Person 1 unconscious on the bathroom floor, she had taken some X pills, I found out all the children were over at her mother’s house. Apparently, Person 1 and her sister in-law had been getting high. There were two events occurred prior to my finale arrests. The first, one night we got into it over my son, and she called the police on me, she said that I had physically assaulted her, but she didn’t need to go to the hospital. She made the statement she has another man raise my son, I said something crazy and was charged with 3rd degree assault. The 2nd event, I drove out to Berkeley because my son was staying with me and my mom and ****** so as I was about to drop off my son, Person 1 asked me to drop my son and two of her children off at a day care (her third child the oldest was now staying with his father). Anyway, as I went to drop the children off the lady at the Day Care tells me there is a “Restraining Order” against me and I was not supposed to be there with the children. I explained that Person 1 told me to bring the children there and she called Person 1, and it was confirmed. As I left the Day Care, I look and there is Person 1 was sitting there watching the whole thing, she had set me up, but the lady had not called the police. I walked over the van Person 1 was in and asked her why didn’t she tell me she had a Restraining Order against me and for what? I was so mad, I broke her door windshield got in my car and left, then here she come ramming my car, I pulled over she turned around and ram my car again, I called the police they ask if I wanted her arrested, I said no, thinking about her children. Now I wish I had. August 16, 2002, I arrested by a Berkeley and City of St. Louis Detective because I was living in the City and I was arrested for the alleged rape of Person 1’s daughter and she was said to have been diagnosed with a form of herpes, but police said it was genital herpes, I was arrested, booked, fingerprinted and my mouth was swabbed for DNA comparison. the prosecutor applied for a warrant twice, but *** genital examination revealed she had not been sexually assaulted and she did not have genital herpes. On August 17, 2002, I was released with All charges against me dismissed and dropped by Berkeley Police. Police Officer ******** said he thought the girl was telling a lie. A week later, August 30, 2002, I arrested again for the alleged Sexual Assault of ***, but it was to have occurred in my apartment. There was no evidence against me that linked me to this until by Court Order I was forced to give a sample of my blood for scientific testing. I did not have hearing were I could have contested the order because I don’t have genital herpes, and it was not alleged in my indictment as part of the crime, so why should I have to submit to something that a lot of people as it turned out have herpes type one (a common cold sore or fever blister), and this the prosecutor said was corroborated evidence I had sexual contact with ***. The witnesses against me were Person 1, her sister in-law, *****, a social worker all testified to what *** told them. Experts ******* testified to blood test he sent to Lab Corp of America, and ****** testified he performed a second examination on *** and found no physical signs of abuse. And that’s it, Thank you.”
