An open letter to perverted-justice.com from Jan Kruska:

Friday, January 18, 2008
WHO IS JAN KRUSKA?

Who is Jan Kruska?

She is me. I am 38 years old and married with four beautiful and wonderful children. My married name is Jan Kruska. I have been writing under the “pen name” Amanda Rogers, on operationawareness.com and various other forums, not to protect myself or to hide from my past, but only to protect my husband and children, who are innocent of any wrongdoing. Their only crime is loving me.

Yes, I have a past, we all do. Things I’m not proud of and wish I could change. It is true I do have a criminal conviction from 16 years ago. My only one - a misdemeanor conviction and it is NOT for child molestation or child abuse. Let’s make that clear right up front.

There are numerous webpages, Myspace pages and blogs out there now dedicated to me, some in my own name.

It all began last August 2007. I don’t know any of these people. I have never met them and never care to, though I am certain now that I will be facing some, if not all of them in a court of law in the very near future. The claims they have made against me are horrendous and false. I have received death threats and threats of bodily injury by some of these people. This will all be made public, they will all be held accountable in a court of law. Anyone that knows me is well aware of my past as are those who I consider friends and close family. Not one of them look at me any differently because of what happened

It is true that I am required to register as a sex offender and have been doing so for 16 years because in Arizona it is a lifetime requirement.. It is also true that I am not found on any sex offender website because my crime was not horrific or forcible, and did not involve a child. Another reason is that I do not pose a threat to any child or any person in society. That is why I am NOT - nor have EVER been on community notification.

The State of Arizona was my convicting jurisdiction (NOT Massachusetts as Perverted Justice’s Corporate Sex Offenders and Petra Luna claim and/ or have claimed. By now it should be quite obvious they don’t check their facts before they set about defaming and harassing people. The state has deemed me as non-violent and non-dangerous and as an insignificant risk to society. If they did, I am certain they would not hesitate to notify my community.

My crime was committed 16 years ago, before Megan’s Law and others like it. I plead guilty to a misdemeanor conviction, not a felony. I plead guilty because I had committed the act which I was accused. I did not try and lie my way out of it.

The crime was consensual involving a 15 year old male who was very close to me at that time. I had just turned 22. The two of us were being violently physically abused as well as emotionally abused daily for an extended period by the minor’s adopted father. The father was ultimately charged and convicted with a class 4 felony for child abuse. He is listed as defendant B in the same case number as mine which is CR-1992-04222. I am defendant (A). I welcome anyone who is concerned about me to visit the Maricopa County Superior Court’s Court Records Archives if they would like to view the documents and compare them to the accuracy of my statements here. The court documents there reflect that my crime was consensual and that I am not a pedophile or a child molester.

In 1992 under Arizona law - child molestation would mean that the victim would have to be age 12 or younger. Also in 1992 registering meant all you had to do was notify the Sheriff if you moved of your address, now there are multiple retroactively applied requirements, none of which focus on prevention or save kids from harm.

I personally never went to jail or prison, not even for a day. I simply served 1 year probation of a three year probation sentence. I have no prior crimes and have committed no crimes since - not even a speeding ticket. I do not visit “chat-rooms” or engage in “instant messaging” on the internet.

I am a dedicated wife and mother. My family means the world to me and I am genuinely concerned for their safety and for the safety of ALL children. I do not condone pedophelia, I abhor child abuse in ALL forms - be it sexual, physical, emotional., or neglect. I know what it is like to be on the receiving end of those things as a child, for many years. I know what it does to a child. I want nothing more than to prevent it.

I find ALL forms of child abuse despicable. If I knew that someone was molesting a young child I would turn them in, in an instant, and I have. I reported a documented case of a 36 year old male molesting my then 10 year old daughter’s best friend. He had been doing so for over a year. I was the one the girl confided in and I was the one that turned him in. Unfortunately, he was never prosecuted because the abuse hadn’t escalated to the point of penetration and he denied everything. Still, the girl was permanently placed in foster care. The Child Protective Services caseworker in Phoenix that handled the case was Rachel Ostro if anyone cares to verify this. Now, IF I were a pedophile, as many on the internet are falsely claiming would I have turned that guy in for molesting that young girl? Of course not.

Since my conviction 16 years ago, I have been around pretty much nothing but children as I have four of my own, and they do have friends. I openly invite anyone to investigate any of my contacts with these children and they will see there is nothing there. I have nothing to hide.

Anyone that would molest a small child is sick and needs help. It is difficult if not impossible for one to try and grasp how an adult could rationalize that that is somehow okay. Anyone openly claiming to be a pedophile or claiming that having a sexual preference for pre-pubescent children is “normal” or “acceptable” is just plain lunacy. I have no empathy for them. I only pray they get some much needed help before they act out on such desires.

Hopefully this clarifies things for my readers and my enemies over at perverted justice, absolutezerounited, jankruska.com (aka April Butler), and Petra Luna who are intent on making me into something I am NOT. Everyone else will have to draw their own conclusions.

I will reiterate that I am NOT a pedophile and that my court documents prove that. I have NO child molestation conviction in Massachusetts or anywhere else on the planet. Their claims on these matters are factually false. It sickens me to the very core of my being what these people are doing to me and have done to so many others without any justification whatsoever.

Many people in my life have been guilty of the exact same conduct as I was 16 years ago- members of my immediate and extended families, friends and acquaintances. In the eyes of the law anyone under 18 is unable to consent to sexual activity, so if you are over 18 and your partner is other, you should technically be a registered sex offender. All it takes is someone to make an accusation or a complaint (as I did the victim’s Aunt in my case.) I have no doubt that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Americans who have engaged in illegal sexual conduct, whether they knew it or not but got lucky than no one complained. They have no criminal record and they aren’t forced to register as sex offenders, but they are by no means any less guilty. Walking free among us, unregistered and un-named. What about you, the reader?

Now that everyone knows the real story about Jan Kruska what will you do?

Will the members of Perverted Justice continue to threaten me and my family, harass us, and/or attempt to beat me or kill me? They claim they are concerned for the emotional well being of all children, but by doing what they are doing they are revealing their true colors. To Perverted Justice and the self proclaimed band of “Evil Vigilantes” I say YOU, not me, are putting my children in harms way- emotionally and physically. Yet you seem to care less. It’s becoming quite clear that your true motives behind what you do have NOTHING to do with children and EVERYTHING to do with making money.

You and everyone else now knows where to find me now and you have endangered my children in the process by taking the law into your own hands and pursuing a law abiding citizen, a wife, and mother of four. You have upset my entire family and defamed my name as well as that of my family. The only reason you chose to go after me is because I am outspoken against these laws. I have seen far too many decent people’s lives be needlessly destroyed by them. They have been lumped in with the most horrendous offenders for crimes that do not even begin to compare with the crimes for which these laws are named, yet all are being treated equally.

It is law enforcements place to disclose my identity and whereabouts IF they see fit. Not yours. By your doing so you are in fact violating multiple criminal statutes which could end up in the public registry being taken down altogether. Is that what you want? I have not harmed you. The only person who has the right to a gripe with me, if one exists, is my victim, and since he consented no harm has been done – this is also talked about in my court records, both by the judge and prosecutor, so please don’t take my word for it.

So there it is - the truth. Plain and simple, nothing more and nothing less. As I told Perverted Justice and their cyber-thug coward ass fiends from the beginning I have nothing to hide. They have not exposed anything, but they have outright lied and incited vigilantism against me, my family, and my property. I hope you are all satisfied.

The truth will set me free and after all this, if you still feel the need to come anywhere near my family be forewarned, you will be doing so at your own risk because we are quite legally, heavily armed and waiting. We will take all steps necessary to protect our family.