Now I know that several of the board members don't care much for Bambi, I understand your feelings but if you can put that aside for a moment.
And I know that several of the board members here already know this but the more that know the better the search chances.
This is from Bambi's forums.
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I know everyone's wondered where I've been, and I do apologize for my prolonged absence from the forums & the slow updates.
The morning of September 18th will forever live in infamy in my mind and heart. On this day I was awakened at 7:00 a.m. by the doorbell, and was greeted by 3 detectives from my local Criminal Investigation Unit of the Sheriff's Department. They had received a report that I had been producing child pornography in my home. I was shocked & revolted by these charges. This sort of activity goes against all of my ethical & moral principles. The 3 detectives proceeded to conduct an invasive search of my home with my permission for any evidence of child porn production. Considering I had nothing to hide this was a much better alternative as opposed to them returning with a search warrant, and refusing to let them immediately perform the search would have implied guilt. During this entire 4 hour search procedure I gave them access to the member's section of my websites to prove that the allegations were malicious and false. To make a long story short I was completely exonerated of this disgusting charge.
This horrific event left me physically sick and emotionally wrecked. I'm still not completely over it as I have never been accused of a crime by anyone, law enforcement or otherwise.
The aftermath led to a sequence of events: Somehow my landlord found out about the accusations and immediately kicked me out of my home. This led to further emotional & physical distress along with an unexpected financial burden of finding a new place to live. These events were so brutal that it led me to consider & discuss with Dr Curvy the possibility of closing all of our websites. Instead of choosing that path we've decided instead to fight back.
Initially the detectives thought that the call originated locally, but after getting our attorney involved and looking into this we have since discovered that the false allegations were made via an internet telephone source that was manipulated to appear as a local area code phone call. Needless to say, someone online is trying to shut us down. We are currently working with the local law enforcement criminal investigation unit assigned to internet crime in order for them to bring charges to whoever was responsible for filing the false police report. Also, once the perpetrator(s) are identified our attorney will be filing a civil law suit on my behalf for financial losses, physical & emotional distress, and defamation of character. So whoever your are (if you are reading this) know that we are coming after you with every legal resource at our disposal.
I've had wonderful support from Dr Curvy, AirWolf, SapphireSnowFox, and another well respected member of our community who I will not name (he knows who he is). I am very grateful to each one of you. I'm also thankful to the rest of you for hanging in here with me and hope that after reading this you will understand why I've been absent, and production work slowed down so dramatically. It has literally taken me this long to have recovered well enough from this event so that I can share it with this wonderful community, and get back to work producing content.
A special note to AirWolf - although you've known what had taken place and just how awful it's been, you've been very gracious to have taken all the heat caused by my absence and I am forever grateful to you for this and many other things you've extended to me and Dr Curvy throughout this horrible ordeal.
If anyone has any credible information/proof that would assist us in pinpointing the perpetrator(s) please let us know - a worthwhile reward is being offered.
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Any assistance is appreciated.
*Posted with Bambi's permission*
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There's no law to stop people being discriminated against even if they've been cleared of child sex offences... A teacher at my old school lost his job after a girl falsely accused him of touching him up and even though he was cleared it was made clear to him that he will never be allowed to teach again. I've also heard about a woman who was accused as part of a malicious smear campaign and she was so bombarded with hate mail and death threats she had to leave the city she'd grown up in and start a new life somewhere else.
I can't say I've never criticised Bambi during those times that she goes without updating her website for more than a month, but if this is someone's idea of retribution for not updating then it's going too far, accusing people of child sex-offences can and does ruin lives.