Comments on: Anderson County Teen Charged With False Report

By: Father assaults gay son with baseball bat « Unfinished Lives

Father assaults gay son with baseball bat « Unfinished Lives — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:56:15 +0000

[...] [NOTE: The validity of the teen's claims are now under question. See this July 23, 2008 update to the story. - The Unfinished Lives Project [...]

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:58:25 +0000

Thank you, Susann. I appreciate your willingness to provide additional information.

By: Susann Griffin

Susann Griffin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:05:05 +0000

To all,
I am the PIO at the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office. My name is Susann Griffin and my first name is almost always mispelled. However, I can assure you that our investigation was thorough and there is not one shred of evidence that supports Ables allegations. He claimed he had just returned from a gay pride parade on July 13th in the Atlanta area when the actual parade was held on the 6th. He did not contact our office in regards to these allegations until July 16th………..three days after the alleged the incident occurred. There was not nor was there ever any bruising or markings on Ables body to support that he had been hit with a baseball bat.
The reason the press release is not posted on our website is simply due to the fact that I had an extremely hectic day. I will post it tomorrow. You should also check the website of http://www.seanslastwish.com tomorrow as they are preparing their own release. They had tried to offer assistance to Ables. As usual, there are elements of an investigation that are not able to be divulged as Ables will be tried in a court of law and not in the media.
Be assured that there was enough information submitted to a judge who then found probable cause to issue a warrant for filing a false police report

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:55:06 +0000

I’ve been looking into this story further and your source at QNotes is quoting from a purported “press release” that is for some odd reason, not available on the Anderson County (S.C.) Sheriff’s Dept. website and misspells the first name of the P.I.O. who would have wrote it… Something is definitely fishy about this story.

By: Stefano A

Stefano A — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:39:26 +0000

Such allegations are difficult to make if you don’t (a) have witnesses and (b) have medical evidence of an assault. Without both of those it boils down to a he said he said scenario.

Hopefully, Ables will be able to come up with some credible evidence to support his charges.