No Middle Ground

Foreword by Doug Rehman, retired Special Agent of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Promises were made.

Through an agonizing trial and public display of their family’s trauma, the State assured the Liddell family closure. They were not only denied closure, they were forced to deal with the reality that the offender, John Harley, was free to live his life as if nothing happened.

George Liddell couldn’t imagine it getting any worse. He, as well as law enforcement, never imagined online child predators uniting for a common goal or who was secretly involved either.

The case caught the attention of a local reporter who saw it as an opportunity to further his own agenda.

And in the center of it all was ten-year-old Jerry, a statistic of the justice system, a commodity of a new criminal enterprise, and the obsession of John Harley who was determined to get Jerry back.

John Harley’s partner, Bill Emmons had other plans for Jerry; plans that would be revealed while 20 thousand feet above the Atlantic where no one would be able to interrupt him. So he thought.