What does a 14 year old girl, sex and suicide have in common?

[Gender Male]

Justin Fawcett, whose name was among 22 penned in a 14-year-old girl's
sex diary, was found dead in his bedroom Friday.

The Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office has yet to determine the
cause of death, but David and Gayle Fawcett said their son died of a
drug overdose.

Fawcett, 20, learned recently that his name would appear on the
state's sex-offender list. His parents said they believe learning that
he would live as a marked man came as a shock, and he faltered.

In May 2002, at age 18, Fawcett was one of four young men charged with
statutory rape for having sex with a 14-year-old Andover High School
student.

The girl's diary later revealed she had been sneaking out of her
parents' Bloomfield Township home in the middle of the night to have
oral and anal sex with 22 boys and men.

In a May 2002 interview with the Free Press, the girl conceded that
she was a predator and a victim: "I declare I am both. Yes, I'm a
victim. I was a victim who was deceived by my own emotions and
ignorance, of misplaced confidence, a victim of my own fantasies . . .
Yes, predator for I chase people who themselves were victims of
misplaced confidence."

In September 2002, Fawcett pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of
seduction, allowing him to avoid jail time and registry on the sex-
offender list.

But a complicated series of legal events would later change that plea
agreement, to the surprise of Fawcett and his parents.

Fawcett was sentenced under the state's Holmes Youthful Trainee Act.
Under the act, Fawcett's record would have been wiped clean as long as
he met the requirements of his probation. In this case, Fawcett was
instructed to stay out of trouble, not use drugs or alcohol and to pay
his court fees.

Instead, Fawcett violated probation in December 2002 when West
Bloomfield police found him illegally possessing prescription drugs.
He also failed to pay court fees. And in January 2003, he was arrested
for stealing from a vehicle. He served 10 months in the Oakland County
Jail.

Pleading to seduction as Fawcett did in 2002 meant his name would not
appear on the sex-offender list. But changes last year require those
who pleaded guilty to seduction to appear on the list, said the
county's Chief Deputy Prosecutor Deborah Carley.

Fawcett was released from jail on Dec. 30.

He enrolled at Oakland Community College with the hope of earning a
business degree. He was earning good grades and making plans to take a
job this spring, his father said. His parents said he was working
toward cleaning up his life.

In late February, Fawcett proudly took his well-received school
reports to his probation officer as proof that he was a man getting
his life in order, David Fawcett said. He was told then that he would
be placed on the sex-offender list.

His parents called it a devastating blow to their son.The state
enacted New Laws and applied them Retroactively, which is against the
United States Constitution. His parents said it was wrong to for the
state to break an agreement, their plea agreement, and do this to
their son.They said they believe the plea agreement he made two years
ago should stand.

The Fawcetts said juveniles have consensual sex all the time. And
though they do not approve, they said they believe it is a mistake for
the law to mark their son for life and label him a danger.

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"We thought he was on the road back," David Fawcett said. "He would
sometimes say he'd kill himself, and that worried us. But we watched
him and we didn't think he was suicidal."

Fawcett's parents described him as a strong-willed and artistic boy
who played the piano and enjoyed baseball and soccer.

The Fawcetts said they will work to give meaning to their son's life.
They plan to campaign against drug use and to make the sex-offender
list more meaningful.

"The sex-offender list was created so that people could know if there
is a predator in their neighborhood," David Fawcett said. "Justin was
not a predator, he was not a threat to anyone, and he should not have
been on that list."

Citizens for Legislative Change, America's Thoughts:

This boy should have never been treated like this by the United States
Government. This is happening all across this country. Children and
men being arrested and charged with sex crimes, then branded for
LIFETIME REGISTRATION AS A SEX OFFENDER.

Being branded a sex offender ruins your life. You cannot join the
military, go to college, school, parks, or get a job. You can just
about live NO WHERE. All of this is in place to send a person who gets
branded a sex offender back to prison. But politicians, the ones
making these laws, do not get prosecuted. They get off free.

This is a tragedy that is being played out all across this land.