Mark Clark who has a lengthy criminal history dating back to 1995, broke the protective order against him by calling his victim from prison. He says it was all in the spirit of the Narcotics Anonymous 12 step program and just wanted to say he was sorry. The victim was scared and did not appreciate the call. Considering this was his 4th protective order violation, the Judge was not impressed.
A Beatrice man was sentenced 20 to 36 months in prison for making a phone call to a woman who had a protection order against him.
Mark Clark was sentenced in Gage County District Court Wednesday afternoon by Judge Paul Korslund. The convicted offense was a subsequent offense, making it a felony.
Gage County Chief Deputy Attorney Rick Schreiner opened his statement by saying he appreciated how Clark has recently helped law enforcement by cooperating and informing them what he saw during two recent jail assaults at the Gage County Jail.
Schreiner said, however, that it doesn’t take away from the seriousness of the crime he committed and said more jail time is going to have to be served.
“I know there’s no violence and it was just a phone call,” Schreiner said, “but the state takes compliance with court orders very seriously. Based on what you have before you, which is a lengthy criminal history dating back to 1995, I don’t think anything other than the maximum sentence is appropriate.”
Schreiner also noted that the victim in this case has expressed fear about the possibility of Clark getting out of jail.
A sentence of 20 to 60 months was possible for Clark, which is a sentence that his attorney, Jeffrey Goltz, felt was a bit much for a phone call.
Goltz said Clark’s phone call to the victim was an attempt to apologize, which is part of a 12-step program in Narcotics Anonymous.
The story of Narcotics Anonymous member Mark Clark in Gage County Nebraska in AA Area 41 in January of 2012 gives a very good example of the way the 12 Steps devised by Bill Wilson is often used to terrorize the people they target. While it is true that the “amends” Step of 9 contains a disclaimer to protect the “program” it is often perverted by the people who follow these Steps.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Some things are left better unsaid and left alone, but when you get a bunch of narcissistic criminals together working the “program” abuse of this nature is bound to happen. Most people who are approached with these amends who are not familiar with AA or NA are perplexed with the pettiness of most of the apologies and they normally appear to be very fake and shallow.
One of the worst cases of this brought to light was that of William Beebe, who 20 years after raping Liz Seccuro at a the University of Virginia in AA area 71 in 1984. She had tried to convict him of rape then, but no one would listen to her since it happened at a frat party and they blamed her. She had tried to forget that night and gotten on with her life with her husband and child. Unfortunately William Beebe started stalking her again, looking for closure and started with a perfumed letter about the incident which noted that she was a “natural” blond and the numerous attempts at contact that followed.
Because of this stalking attempt using the 12 Steps devised by William Griffith Wilson, William Beebe was subsequently sentenced to 10 years in prison for the 20 year old rape.