WATCHING SHAUBERGER

Though it is nearly impossible to conceive any rationale for any District Attorney having kept the Liberty Police Department from bringing their case against Edward Ross Shauberger years ago, at least now guilt or innocence will be decided by jurors after they have heard all of the facts. Sources inside the District Attorney’s office can verify former District Attorney Mike Little chose to delay pursuit of Shauberger’s alleged crimes against children and that he “conceived” of a reason to risk the welfare of these three girls and all children that came in contact with Shauberger as DA Little kept the police from presenting their case. The former District Attorney was in hopes of coaxing Shauberger to help him construct a case against a political enemy – as readers of this blog well know one of the contributors to this blog was, and still is, Little’s target.

Little has many obstacles to overcome if he ever is successful in getting the case he sacrificed so much for before a courtroom full of jurors. First, since Shauberger is the owner and decision maker of the company the case centers around, Little has to somehow hope a jury and a judge will do three things that would be rather bizarre. First, Little needs to find a jury that would accept Shauberger as a believable witness. Second, Shauberger has to somehow convince jurors that the deal the D.A.’s office cut with Shauberger is not proof in itself that Little selected only the facts that he thought would bury his political enemy as he fabricated his case – after all Shauberger owns the company and he made all of the decisions in the case, whether they are deemed legal or not. Third, Little, now that a grand jury by-passed his roadblocks and indicted Shauberger, has to make sure Shauberger’s trial in which he is accused of raping several children over the last ten years children has to be delayed until Little gets his political enemy.

The last one, number three… delaying Shauberger’s trial for child rape… would be a travesty considering the crimes alleged and the people harmed by them have been on hold for many years. This sexual assault trial should be as soon as possible if there is any real justice to be had in Liberty County. And with that being the case, how will Little advise Shauberger to win so he gets over at least one of the obstacles.

One might expect Shauberger to defend claims of forcing his three adopted daughters to have sex with him when they were young teens by using the fact they were special needs children. It is a fact these young ladies had a rough start in life, but a jury will have to decide if the rough start included being adopted by a serial child molester or if they each one at separate times have all seized upon the same story. Of course if others come forward, that will make Shauberger’s defense even more difficult.

It is difficult to guess how Shauberger will explain the sudden departure of his wife and youngest child in the middle of the night several years ago. It seems his wife did not believe the accusations of the first two girls but if she saw Edward and their youngest, then Shauberger will have to discredit her or he will have had to talk her into not telling the truth.

Of course, with the police secure in the fact they have had a good case for years there are many other aspects of the case we could guess about. But for now we leave it here. We leave this case in hopes that the retirement of Mike Little is also the retirement of all public officials in the D.A.’s office reacting to overt aggressive political activity with an attitude bent toward revenge and a policy of using their office to settle scores. In politics the best and only revenge should be winning, not abusing your office.

Watching the Shauberger cases and the order in which they are tried should tell the public a great deal about the justice system in Liberty County. Minimums of three young ladies have patiently waited for their day in court and it is long, long, and overdue.