Here Today... Gone to Mali: January 2008

This is True®

by Randy Cassingham

Face the Music III
While performing in a musical in a community theater, Jay Meisenhelder “fell in love” with a fellow actress. She is 16. “I’m 53 years old, and believe me, I know what love is,” he wrote her in an email. “I love you as I have only loved two other women in my life.” He also met the girl for a candle-lit music session. When his boss found out about the email, apparently sent from work, and the meeting, Meisenhelder was fired from his job — as the Marion County, Ind., deputy prosecutor and assistant chief of the sex crimes division. Meisenhelder, who is married, insists “nothing I did was illegal.” His lawyer agrees: Meisenhelder was just “expressing a fantasy,” attorney Roberta Ross says. “What they essentially chose to do was take an excellent eight-year employee who lived and breathed and loved his job and dramatically overreacted.” (Indianapolis Star) ...Yes, well, his breathing just got too heavy for the public to stomach.
Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 11

Friday, January 18, 2008