Phoenix, Arizona, 1963.
Dick Robertson received a detailed report from his four year old daughter, that she had been carnally violated by someone in a dark room, who whispered to mute his identity, and who had alcohol on his breath.
Besides himself, there were two other adult men in the house, for a total of three suspects, including himself. As head of the household, he chose not to call the police and elected to secretly and alternately blame his resident stepfather (A Native American Ojibway Chippewa) and his youngest (22 yr old) brother. Which of the two he blamed it on, varied, depending on who he was talking to. The alleged offense took place in Arizona, where there is no state or federal (Title 18 ) statute of limitations on carnal child abuse.
Dick Robertson spent the next 36 years covertly telling other people that his youngest brother or stepfather had violated his infant daughter. Since he had to take some kind of action, this was his chosen method of ‘dealing with’ the described incident, in order to take an ‘initiative posture’, in the eyes of his stunned, consternated wife and three children.
Neither his youngest brother or stepfather were ever confronted. The herein provided information came from 'informed' friends of the secretly accused, who had enough confidence in them to tell them what was being said about them, to - and by - hundreds of people, and why.
Upon learning of these accusations (seven years later), the youngest brother contacted several police authorities, all of whom refused to take action against Dick Robertson. On two occasions of this record attempting to acquire police action, the record was locked down in psychiatric wards. The complaints never reached any police reports. Former Santa Cruz, California, district attorney and judge, Arthur Danner, played a principle role in this pernicious monument to socio-legal iniquity.
(This record has never been legally accused, let alone convicted, of any felony, whatsoever...)
It is a felony not to report such a crime, and, it is another felony to subsequently blame it on anyone else. Anyone contributing to the distribution of what amounts to such a qualified ‘rumor’, is likewise a felonious accessory to the fact. Unfortunately the authors of this ‘rumor’ have carefully guarded their anonymity. Dick Robertson succeeded (for decades) in persuading his daughter and wife, and what eventually and accumulatively amounted to hundreds - if not thousands - of pompously enthusiastic and angry people, in dozens of locations, that his youngest brother, or stepfather, was responsible for the described crime. The social consequences projected on this record's stepfather, and this record, are ineffable; nor have they abated.
Due to severe abuse from his father, on 11 September, 1990, Dick Robertson’s youngest (28 year old) son, Douglas, doused himself with gasoline, and immolated himself in his mother’s North Hollywood kitchen. Notably and ironically, this incident preceded, eleven years - to the day - the catastrophe of 9/11/2001. Douglas Robertson suffered third degree burns on all of his body, except his face and groin. He lingered for about six weeks, and died on or about Halloween day, 1990.
Dick Robertson also attempted to implicate his stepfather and youngest brother in the violation of a second child. The below attached documents clarify the failed results of that onerous endeavor.
In 1999, Dick Robertson, under imminently forthcoming prosecution charges for embezzlement to cover his gambling debts, and the above described history, drove his car from his North Hollywood residence to a nearby parking lot, consumed a pint of hard liquor, and fatally shot himself in the head. Shortly thereafter, his betrayed and bewildered wife, perished of a heart attack.
Moral:
If you’re not the guilty party animal and do not wish to be dwell in stigma, among the three ‘suspects’, contact the authorities; exonerate yourself: resolve the case ASAP. Lest you perpetrate and endure the extensive gauntlet that the obsessively gambling, heavy drinking, fugitive felon - Dick Robertson - put himself and so many others through; having done so much, to so many, for such a long time.
(The assailant’s name is excluded in the below documents, due to sealed records of a criminal action by a juvenile.)
(Special gratitude to Austin Torney, for his unflinching technical assistance in posting this message.)
Best regards,
- RP