I wrote the following letter to the judge in USA v. Luke Wenke after receiving a multitude of calls from Wenke’s jail friend, a level three (high-risk) sex offender who is on the registry for sodomizing two female victims. Because that’s apparently the kind of company Wenke keeps during his time in the clink.
I wrote to the judge after trying to report Wenke’s unwanted third-party contact to other people involved in his case and getting the standard brush-off. These communication difficulties have happened on a handful of occasions throughout Wenke’s case. At least the federal court has taken some action, unlike New York State authorities, who seem to care exponentially more about kissing criminals’ butts than keeping victims safe. And I’m grateful for the federal court’s assistance, but fighting for basic protection from a stalker is a hell-ish, arduous, never-ending uphill battle. People have a right to be left alone, and it shouldn’t be this hard to obtain basic protection.
I think Luke Wenke had his friend call me in an attempt to make it seem like I was conspiring against him with inmates
Since this happened, Wenke has repeatedly written to the judge with claims that I have “connections” with a “certain inmate” (I believe he’s referencing the sex offender he gave my phone number to, who I talk about in this letter). He urged the judge to listen to the one phone call I answered from the inmate, which I had already asked his probation officer to listen to. Wenke tried citing this recording as evidence that I’m conspiring with inmates to make his life suck (he has also accused me, verbatim, of sleeping with “every corrections officer” at the jail, despite me knowing zero employees there).
What Wenke doesn’t realise is that he does a fine job of making his own life suck. He self-destructs entirely on his own. His victims have absolutely nothing to do with his current situation and all the other so-called “misfortune” that he bitches incessantly about. If he would’ve just left his victims alone instead of violating protective orders and court-imposed contact bans, he’d probably be free today.
Zero Accountability (Again)
Since August 2023, Luke Wenke has been prohibited from contacting me, including indirectly and through third parties, via a court-imposed contact ban. I therefore assumed that by having a fellow inmate call me, Wenke was violating the contact ban. After all, the inmate confirmed that Luke Wenke gave him my phone number and told him to call me.
I reported the unwanted contact to Luke Wenke’s probation officer, who told me that nothing would come of the incident because the contact ban is technically not in effect when Luke Wenke is in jail. A few weeks later, I told the prosecutor about the unwanted phone calls, and he said that he believed it was a violation of the contact ban. But even if it was, it doesn’t matter, because no one took action, and Wenke’s behaviour went unpunished yet again.
No freaking wonder Wenke violates contact bans and orders of protection. Why in the world would he stop when his natural compulsion is to stalk, and he tends to get away with it? And the real question is, why does the court let Luke Wenke get away with so much? It only breeds a more inflated sense of entitlement and disrespect for the law.