Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

December 1, 2011

Rick Aleman ran a day care facility in Hanover Park, Illinois. In September 2005, a woman named Danielle Schrik, whose 11-month-old son Joshua was enrolled in the day care, told Aleman that the child had been feverish and lethargic when she dropped him off.

Shortly after Danielle left, Joshua collapsed. Aleman called 911 and began to administer CPR. Police took Aleman in for questioning. The officers pressed Aleman to sign a waiver of his Miranda rights against self-incrimination, and repeatedly deflected his requests for help from an attorney.

At one point Detective Todd Carlson told Aleman that doctors had concluded that Joshua?s death was the result of shaken-baby syndrome ; this prompted the grief-stricken man to say that he must have been responsible. Aleman was charged with murder when Joshua died a few days later.

That charge was dismissed when it was revealed that Carlson had lied about the doctors? findings. He had also covered up the violent criminal history of Joshua?s mother, in whom he had a romantic interest.

Never talk to the police. Always assume they are lying to you. They aren?t interested in the truth; they are just trying to put you in jail. Don?t help them.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.