MESSAGE FROM ME

Some people have posted personal information about me online which have been shared with and read by other people. I obtained screenshots of chats about me in a Discord which I gave to a Law Enforcement Agency for investigation in the same way that I gave three tracking devices that I found under my car a few years ago.

In California, Penal Code 653.2, called Cyberstalking and Harassment Law, criminalizes using electronic communication devices such as computers or smartphones to distribute, publish, email, or hyperlink an individual’s private or identifying information such as home address, phone number,

workplace, social security number, or email without consent. Under Penal Code 653.2, the unauthorized release of private data with malicious intent commonly known as Doxing (short for dropping docs), has serious legal consequences. While simply finding information online is legal, doxing crosses into illegal territory when the intent is to encourage harassment, threats, or harm to the subject.

In 1995, I pleaded no contest to the charge of Lewd or Lascivious Act Upon a Child Under 14 pursuant to California Penal Code 288 (a). This conviction had already been vacated, and I am not a registered sex offender. I am not in Megan’s Law Database, which posts information of registered sex offenders. | accepted an offer of one-year work furlough program sentence, which is lower than jail time and lower than the minimum sentence of 16 months in state prison for the offense under Penal Code 288 (a), because my public defender told me to accept the offer instead of going to trial and | did not know the legal system at that time. The victim was being instructed by the police officer who handled the case on what to do and what to say. The victim is my wife. When the victim was located by a private investigator 20 years later in 2014, she told the private investigator that she wanted to see me after learning that I was convicted of a crime because of what happened between her and me in 1994. We have been living together since 2019, and we got married in 2021.

The victim submitted a declaration to my lawyer before my lawyer gave her my contact information in 2014 in which she wrote, “After my mother gave a statement to the police, I had to deal with a police detective who was instructing me what to do."

The court-appointed psychologist who did the evaluation for my Penal Code 288.1 report as a presentencing requirement wrote in 1995, “Based on the psychological test data, there is no evidence to indicate that Mr. Mugas is a dangerous individual. There does not seem to be a threat of physical harm to the victim.” The psychologist also wrote, “No skin-to-skin contact, no penetration, no fear or intimidation, no prior history of child molest or misconduct, no criminal history of any kind, Victim is 13, not 8, not 6, and by Probation Officer’s own admission, more sophisticated than the average young teenage girl." There is no psychologist diagnosis that says I am a pedophile.

I am posting this website so that this will come up when someone searches my name on Google and find information about me relating to my dealings with California courts.

Thanks.

JOSE A. MUGAS