I recently heard that a friend of mine has an acquaintance whose son age 18 went to enlist in the military and was denied. The boy at the age of 13, had been having problems with his much younger sibling always getting into his things - and a mother who didn’t seem to see the importance of the privacy for the older brother. This put the older son in a position to protect his own belongings and he began slapping the younger sibling and of course always got in trouble for hitting.
On one day so frustrated, the older son hit his younger sibling harder than he had before and the mother out of her own frustration and without thinking of the repercussions decided to call the police to teach her son a lesson. What this mother did was ruin the rest of her son’s life.
I was bothered by this and contacted an old friend who is in the military who then put me in contact with a recruiter friend of his.
What I was told is:
Guys get in fights with friends, guys get into brawls at bars and get charged with assault. We see this all of the time and we know we can pretty much get them straightened out in boot camp. But when someone assaults a family member - someone they are supposed to care about, to love - then it is our position that they don’t care about anyone or anything - and we do not want these kind of people in our ranks. They’re trouble from the get-go.
Then I asked him about the sealed record. If this kid was 13 when this happened and the record was sealed how did the military get a hold of it?
And he answered:
A sealed record, juvenile or adult - is basically something moved from one drawer to another. Anyone with the knowledge or know-how to access the records i.e. Military-Judges-Lawyers, detectives, etc. can find them.
And if the charges were ever posted on the Internet, they can be found as well.
Additionally, even though the defendant in a case is granted any rights to not acknowledge a criminal charge or where the general public may have difficulty in finding this information - there is still a Victim who cannot be ordered by a court to say he or she was never a victim of the plaintiff’s crime.
The victim can always provide evidence by a show of court documents, summons to appear - and if the crime was posted on the Internet, the defendant most likely will have proof of the crime from that source as well.
The Truth of The Matter is:
You cannot undo the things you have done. You cannot pretend that what you have done never happened. Your actions will follow you all the days of your life.
Out of "Breck Waters" Wor
