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Ex-Con Wrongly Labeled As Sex Offender In Text Messages

By "eAdvocate"

3-17-2011 New Mexico: LAS CRUCES, New Mexico -- How many times have you received a forwarded text message on your cell phone but did not know how to track the original sender? A Las Cruces man said that is what is happening to him, except he is the focus of the message, being labeled a sex offender, which he is not. "It's juvenile that people would do something like this," Roy Parra said. Parra is an ex-con, trying to lead a normal life, but said a forwarded text message is jeopardizing his already bruised reputation. "I did something totally different, there's no way I?m a sex offender," Parra said. Parra served 12.5 years for armed robbery with a deadly weapon. His mug shot from the day he was booked into prison is real in a forwarded message, but superimposed text labeling him as a registered sex offender, is not...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on March 17, 2011 (boomark / email).