A Georgia man lost seven months of his life in prison after he was falsely accused of assault. Now, he wants the state worker who accused him charged.
“I sat in jail for seven months because someone lied on me,” said John Blue. “If I was charged with aggravated assault and didn’t do anything, let her stand before the same people.”
Blue was charged after a state worker said that he rammed her with his van during a Division of Family and Children’s Services investigation. However, Blue and his girlfriend and two sons kept telling police that she was the one who hit them. “She crashed my car. She rammed my car,” said Blue.
After hearing the story, it took a jury only 45 minutes to give him a not-guilty verdict, and Blue would like to get his life back. But it will be hard to rebuild after losing his interior design shop, his apartment and most of his belongings.
Still, he is looking for jobs and hopes to be able to find one soon so his boys might move back in with him.
“My kids have never wanted for anything. This is not fair, not right; my family has been destroyed,” said Blue.