When a young child who is suspected of being sexually abused talks about “daddy’s pet snake,” she’s not talking about a reptile the man keeps in an aquarium and totes back and forth from Florida. Dumbasses. Enablers.
The MacMaster case is one of the most heartbreaking I have seen in a long time. And because it involves Oakland County, it involves obstruction. That is not much of an exaggeration, I’m afraid. I believe Sean MacMaster and Larry Orr belong in prison and that they are two of the luckiest men crawling around the planet.
Let’s get two things clear at the beginning of this post. First, if you live in Oakland County and you run into trouble, call your local police department. Do not call the Oakland County sheriff’s office. Your hometown police department. Tell the dispatcher that if you call 911. **I’m told Pontiac disbanded it’s PD and OCS responds to all calls. I’m sorry to hear that.
Second, if you have a tip or a story, do not call Channel 7/Heather Catallo. If that is Detroit’s preeminent investigative unit, I am the Surgeon General. Call Karen Drew at Channel 4. Call any reporter at The Detroit News, with the exception of Mike Martindale. Call any reporter at the Detroit Free Press who doesn’t go drinking after hours with the cops.
What is not obvious from any of the reporting in the poor-ex-cop-Sean-MacMaster-was-railroaded case, when AAG Brian Kolodziej was removed from the MacMaster/Orr CSC prosecution the AG’s office dropped the case. The case was dismissed by the court without prejudice, but the case had now entered the “convoluted nature” stage that Oakland County relies on for ditching “combustable” files. See ya later, kid. Good luck to you. Don’t worry, eventually you will age out and move on with your life. You’ll have lots of material for your therapy sessions.
There are quite a few things an alleged investigative reporter would learn if they took an honest look at the MacMaster case. The kind of things former Undersheriff Mike McCabe admitted he was completely unaware of concerning Sean MacMaster, as he testified in his deposition in a defamation case. And more.
For example, just prior to AAG Kolodzieg’s resignation, he had an initial brief review of the computer forensic unit’s processing of Sean MacMaster’s devices, which revealed “very disturbing images,” tens of thousands of them, which appeared to be CSAM (child sexual abuse material). Kolodzieg described seeing:
Very young children involved in sexual acts with adults. Very young children appearing to be tortured and/or in bondage. And other sorts of graphics and peoples and images that indicated the assault and/or sexual assault of what appeared to be children.”
Trooper David Busacca also testified under oath concerning the CSAM. Steps had not been taken to verify the ages of people depicted. When Kolodziej resigned, Busacca was advised by both the AG and the state police “[d]o not do anything else with this case, just freeze it.” Later he was instructed to release the evidence and not to “worry about detailing what was in it.”
Bet you didn’t know about the images either, did you Mike and Heather? Like I said, this guy is really lucky Kolodziej resigned and his case was dropped. And this is just the tip of the iceberg, although the family court in Florida is hearing none of it. Family reunification therapy and all of that bullshit.
The world is so broken sometimes.