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September 25, 2021
The policemen ran toward me, so I ran to my driveway. They demanded my camera’s film. I refused to surrender my camera and accused them of trespassing private property without a Warrant. We argued, but I stood firm defending my legal rights. I demanded to know what was going on with [REDACTED], but they refused to tell me. They claimed that I knew why [REDACTED] wanted to kill my wife and me. Subsequently they took [REDACTED] to one of the patrol cars and drove away taking [REDACTED]’s SUV with them. I returned to my house and made another major error: I called [REDACTED], explained to him what had taken place and requested an appointment for the next day at 4:00 pm.
Next, I received a telephone call from an anonymous caller that called me CHILD MOLESTER threatened our lives and gave me 24 hours to move away from Country Walk. According to Iliana, that voice sounded like the voice of Mr. Toby. That shocked me because we considered him and his wife to be our good friends. We used to take his four-year-old daughter and my five-year-old son to the zoo horse mounting to the movies, et cetera. Iliana and I were very fond of their child and had come to treat her as family. Iliana and I got in my car and went to Toby’s townhouse to demand an explanation. Toby immediately denied being the anonymous caller and told us that he had already defended us when Sergeant Andrea Landis and Lieutenant Vincent Landis from the Police Department and his next-door neighbors, had visited him and his wife to discuss rumors that Iliana had been kissing the male babies’ genitals. My wife Iliana, who was 17 years old, and was born and raised in Honduras, where blowing air on a baby’s belly to make the baby laugh is a normal demonstration of love for the baby and a very common custom, began to cry and to try to explain that her actions were being misconstrued. While we were conversing, Sergeant and Lieutenant Landis walked in on us and began to accuse me of raping Miss R.R.. We argued. I accused them of lying and of abusing their delegated authority to cover up for Detective Sergeant [REDACTED], Sr., and his son Officer [REDACTED], Jr., who had fabricated the false allegation that I had touched Miss R.R. with sexual malice over her clothes, out of vindictiveness from Mrs. Bonnie Kendall. While we were arguing, a patrol car arrived and the Landises ordered the policeman to place Iliana and I under arrest. However, that officer, who just happen to be one of my clients, after hearing my side of the facts, refused to arrest us and let us go.
On August 9, 1984, I left my brother Sal supervising one of my carpenters, who was building a wall in the Florida Room of my house to make a home theater. That date, Iliana closed her babysitting service permanently, but it was too late for that at that point. We met with [REDACTED] about 4:00 pm. From [REDACTED]’s office I called my house to ask Sal if Mr. Walley (Phonetic) had finished building the wall. Sal shocked me when he informed me that about six or seven police cars and all the news media people were outside my house waiting for my arrival. He calculated, based on what he could see from the windows, that in total, about 50 human beings were waiting for me. Mr. Walley had left to return the following day. But I was not able to see him again. In fact, I never saw my house again. [REDACTED] instructed me not to return to my house that day, but to stay in a hotel and to meet him at 10:00 am the next day at the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, in the courtroom of Judge Robert Newman (4-2?). My wife and I were there by 9:30 am. We were anxious to explain that we had not committed any type of crime. I was in a hurry to go to my ongoing remodeling projects around Miami. But I was placed under custody and I have been incarcerated since August 10, 1984, because of horrible crimes against children that NEVER EXISTED. THAT NEVER TOOK PLACE. From my cell in the Dade County Jail, I was able to keep conducting business through the telephone and to complete some of my pending projects with my contractors.
The original charge against me was the false allegation that I had changed jobs without having reported it to my Probation Officer. During the time that I was under probation, and for several years prior to that, I had been, as can be easily confirmed. I subcontracted 42 home improvement contractors for my projects. The Mobile Showroom, Inc. had a warehouse. It was a small, but a legit business operating in full compliance with the laws. Prior to that, but from the same warehouse, I ran KDW Enterprises, Inc. For about eight years in total I was involved in home improvement businesses of my own. I HAD NO JOB. I DIDN’T CHANGE JOBS. I was deprived of my freedom of my family of my goals and of the American Dream, based on a lie.
Immediately after my arrest, the Landises began to prepare the background for a case against Iliana and I. Janet Reno, Dade County State Attorney, who was running for reelection against Attorney John B. Thompson, welcomed the Landises with open arms, because Mr. Thompson was relying on the forever effective protection of children platform for his political champaign against her. In fact, I have wondered if Janet Reno was the Master Mind behind the creation of the Country Walk case. The Landises had all the parents that had ever used Iliana’s babysitting service meet with them every night at the Country Walk Clubhouse, to fabricate allegations against my wife and I that could help Janet Reno obtain our convictions. Simultaneously, Janet Reno had every child subjected to a rigorous interview by the expert from the Miami Police Department. No evidence of abuse was found.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Francisco Fuster-Escalona