I am a 35 year old male from Massachusetts applying to various Physician Assistant programs throughout the United States. I graduated college as a double major summa cum laude (Biology & Psychology).
When I was 19 years old I entered into an eight month relationship with a girl who was 14. Around the fifth month of our relationship we began having consensual sexual relations in the form of touching (not sexual intercourse). She kept a diary that detailed all aspects of the relationship that ended up being discovered by her mother. The mother approached me one day and questioned me regarding this sexual activity and I was honest with her and admitted it. She then told a friend about the situation, who then reported it to the police.
I was then interviewed by police. They asked for the details of the relationship and I was honest and cooperated fully. Though I am an American citizen, I spent half of my childhood and teenage years in Portugal, so I was not entirely familiar with the law at that time. They asked me to write and sign a formal confession detailing our relationship and how it involved sexual touching. I signed this confession and was immediately told that I was under arrest and charged with Rape and Abuse of a Child and Indecent Assault and Battery on a child over 14. Bail was set at $1,000. The extent of the press coverage was negligible – a small eight line article in the "police beat" section of the local newspaper.
Because the family of my girlfriend ignored calls from the district attorney for over a month and would not cooperate with investigators and after reading approximately 30 letters of correspondence between the girl and I detailing the relationship, the DA offered me a plea bargain to dismiss both the Abuse of a Child and Indecent A&B charges for an exchange of a guilty plea to misdemeanor simple assault with 2 years probation.
My question is this. What is the likelihood that I will be able to become licensed as a physician assistant with this misdemeanor conviction of simple assault on my record? In Massachusetts, simple assault is considered the least of all possible misdemeanor offenses. Also, Massachusetts allows you the petition of sealing misdemeanor convictions 10 years after probation was completed, which makes me currently eligible to do this.
Thank you very much for your help.
When I was 19 years old I entered into an eight month relationship with a girl who was 14. Around the fifth month of our relationship we began having consensual sexual relations in the form of touching (not sexual intercourse). She kept a diary that detailed all aspects of the relationship that ended up being discovered by her mother. The mother approached me one day and questioned me regarding this sexual activity and I was honest with her and admitted it. She then told a friend about the situation, who then reported it to the police.
I was then interviewed by police. They asked for the details of the relationship and I was honest and cooperated fully. Though I am an American citizen, I spent half of my childhood and teenage years in Portugal, so I was not entirely familiar with the law at that time. They asked me to write and sign a formal confession detailing our relationship and how it involved sexual touching. I signed this confession and was immediately told that I was under arrest and charged with Rape and Abuse of a Child and Indecent Assault and Battery on a child over 14. Bail was set at $1,000. The extent of the press coverage was negligible – a small eight line article in the "police beat" section of the local newspaper.
Because the family of my girlfriend ignored calls from the district attorney for over a month and would not cooperate with investigators and after reading approximately 30 letters of correspondence between the girl and I detailing the relationship, the DA offered me a plea bargain to dismiss both the Abuse of a Child and Indecent A&B charges for an exchange of a guilty plea to misdemeanor simple assault with 2 years probation.
My question is this. What is the likelihood that I will be able to become licensed as a physician assistant with this misdemeanor conviction of simple assault on my record? In Massachusetts, simple assault is considered the least of all possible misdemeanor offenses. Also, Massachusetts allows you the petition of sealing misdemeanor convictions 10 years after probation was completed, which makes me currently eligible to do this.
Thank you very much for your help.
