This is a variation on the story, Crime and Punishment, posted on the Eunuch Archive in May, 2000, by Erik ([email protected]). This variation was done without the permission or knowledge of Erik. WARNING: This story contains descriptions of sex between minor boys, the castration of a minor boy, and the putting to death of a minor boy. If such situations disturbed you, or if it is illegal in your jurisdiction at your age to read or possess a story containing any of these descriptions, please exit or delete this story now.
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Crime and Punishment - A Variation (Part 2 of 2) by Green Sky This is a variation on the story, Crime and Punishment, posted on the Eunuch Archive in May, 2000, by Erik ([email protected]). This variation was done without the permission or knowledge of Erik. WARNING: This story contains descriptions of sex between minor boys, the castration of a minor boy, and the putting to death of a minor boy. If such situations disturbed you, or if it is illegal in your jurisdiction at your age to read or possess a story containing any of these descriptions, please exit or delete this story now. Part 2 A few weeks after Marty's hanging, there was another rape and murder. The original culprit was once again caught up in the police sweep. This time, there were no mistakes, and the DNA evidence pointed him out. Out of curiosity, a State lab technician did a test on the DNA found at the original murder scene. His findings, confirmed by independent tests at two other labs, proved Marty was telling the truth in court and he was innocent. The culprit was tried for both murders. His conviction, castration and execution were even swifter than Marty's. The same warden, hangman, doctor, and prison guards carried out the tasks. However, the sight of the innocent body of a screaming, naked, bound, hooded, and castrated thirteen year old boy dropping through the gallows's trap door, and the sound of Marty's silenced scream echoing throughout the gallows chamber, were two thoughts that none of them could get out of their heads. Within six months of the true felon's execution, all involved had left their jobs with the State prison, and a few spent the rest of their lives seeking the passage of more reasonable juvenile justice laws. Deputy State attorney general Joe Burns had been exhilarated over Marty's conviction and execution. His campaign for State attorney general had just started distributing an election poster with Marty's face on it and the caption, "Burns, tough on crime," when the fact of Marty's innocence was made public. The irony that Joe Burn's toughness had resulted in the death of an innocent 13 year old boy was not lost on voters. Though Burns had immediately pulled the poster, it was not possible to get all the copies. Some were scanned and distributed world wide over the internet along with Marty's story. A few enterprising merchants in the State produced T-shirts with the poster printed on the front and back. Many high school and middle school students in the State started wearing it to school. Some schools tried to ban the shirt. However, it was clearly a reproduction of a campaign poster, and both State and Federal court rulings were clear that schools could not, under the 1st Amendment, prohibit the peaceful display of campaign items by students. In fact, Burns had successfully challenged such a ban himself in State court in the previous election when the issue was the right of students to wear campaign buttons from Burn's political party. Burns stuck it out, but received less than 10 percent of the vote on election day. When Marty's parents heard that their son was innocent, their already shattered lives simply dissolved. Like most adults, they had eventually come to consider their son a monster. They could not conceive of their government making such a horrible mistake, so their son must have been guilty. Marty's mother, when she heard the news, collapsed in a coma and died a few days later. Marty and Mike's father immediately had Marty's lawyer file a wrongful death suit against the State. However, a week after his wife's funeral, the father came home, opened a full bottle of whiskey, and never turned back. Within three months he had lost his job and was on the verge of losing his home. All the hatred and rage he had for himself at his failure to protect Marty turned into hatred and rage for his one remaining son, Mike. Mike, starved for love, and suffering deeply from the loss of his family, turned to the one person who still seemed to care for him, Marty's best friend, Pat. As he father became more drunk and physically abusive towards him, Mike started spending more and more time at Pat's house. It was early one morning while Mike was spending the night at Pat's house that the police came to inform Mike that his father had committed suicide by shooting himself in head. Having no close relatives, Pat's parents took Mike in. They even offered to adopt Mike, but he refused because he was the only one left now to continue his family's name. At Marty's funeral, Marty's lawyer had managed to whisper a few words to Pat and Mike to stop by his law office the next day after school. It was there that he delivered Marty's letters. The two boys broke down in sobs in each other's arms. Pat was beside himself as he tearfully told Mike of that day with Marty, and over his inability to testify for Marty at the trial. Mike, who was now without a brother he dearly loved, want nothing more desperately than to have someone to look up to. He could not hate Pat for what he had not done, only love Marty all the more for the sacrifice he had made. Haltingly at first, and then with increasing frequency over the next days and weeks, the two boys became fast friends, and then lovers. Each wore a charm necklace with Marty's initials on it. Since many of Marty's friends wore the same thing, it drew little attention. However, Pat and Mike made a solemn vow to each other that they would never make love with out both wearing the necklace. That way, Marty could always continue to share the love the three boys had for each other. With the death of Marty's and Mike's parents, the lawyer continued the wrongful death suit with Mike and the family estates as the plaintiffs. At Mike's and Pat's urging, the lawyer refused to settle out of court until all the testimony about police and district attorney incompetence and vindictiveness had been dragged out in court. The judge, personally disgusted with the grave miscarriage of justice in a system he had devoted his life to, booked no complaints from the State. He forced the trial to move along quickly, rejecting time and time again motions by the State for delays. The sooner the whole matter was closed, the judge felt, the better it would be for everyone. The State's attorney, in a panic about an almost certain guilty verdict, settled for a multi-million dollar amount just as the jury was ready to issue its verdict. Later interviews with some jurors confirmed that the State had been wise to settle. The only dark cloud remaining was the need for Pat and Mike to keep their relationship a secret from Pat's very conservative parents. Pat's parents were increasingly starting to question the boys why they were spending so much time in each other's rooms. Initially, the boys had shared the same room because, as Mike and Pat explained it to Pat's parents, Mike needed someone to be close to if he woke up in the middle of the night with a nightmare. However, a month after the funeral of Mike's father, Pat's parents gently, but firmly, insisted that Mike start sleeping in his own room. Though Pat loved his parents, he loved Mike even more. Pat was starting to become despondent over how to resolve the conflict. Like Mike and Marty, Pat had no close living relatives except his parents. The matter was finally resolved, somewhat tragically, two months after the lawsuit was settled. Mike and Pat, both members of the local swim club team, had gone on a weekend trip to an out-of-state meet. While they were gone, an unnoticed defect in the recently installed furnace in their house caused a carbon monoxide gas leak which killed Pat's parents in their sleep. Marty's lawyer was also the lawyer for Pat's family. The police were not able to determine the whereabouts of Pat and Mike until shortly before they were due to arrive back home. The local social worker was planning to place each boy in a separate foster home. The lawyer stepped forward and asserted his power of attorney. It was the lawyer who gently broke the news to Pat and Mike, and it was at the lawyer's house the boys went to stay. The lawyer managed to convince the local judge, the same one who had tried the lawsuit over Marty's wrongful death, to grant him temporary custody of the boys while things settled down. Marty's lawyer, having been so deeply involved in all the boys' lives for several months, and with the complete support of Pat and Mike, petitioned for permanent custody. The State, having already caused an innocent boy's death, having cost the taxpayers several million dollars in a lawsuit, and having no better solution than an overburdened foster care system, put up only a halfhearted attempt in the court fight for permanent custody. In the end, the governor was glad to just have the matter settled and no longer have it the lead story of local and national media. The lawyer, single and alone, had come to love the boys as the sons he doubted he would ever have. He was able to work out the legalities that allowed him to adopt both boys, but permitted the boys to keep their own last names. The settlement from the lawsuit over Marty's death would provide for Mike for the rest of his life. A similar lawsuit over the furnace failure provided for Pat. The attorney was very supportive of Pat and Mike's relationship, and enabled both boys to nurture and grow into fine men. As the years passed, the three of them, through wise investments and careful management, were able to accomplish may wonderful things to help the less fortunate children of the State. However, the two they were most proud of was a home for gay boys and teens in which the boys could love and grow without the harsh reaction of the society outside its boundaries. The other was "Marty's law," enacted on Marty's twenty-first birthday. It finally brought some sense back to the juvenile justice laws of the State. It reserved adult penalties for only those who had adult rights, and ensured that no thirteen year old boy would ever again suffer a State sponsored attack on his sexual organs or suffer the life ending drop of a hangman's noose.