Jake and Evan

As we prepare to enter the final leg of the race for the Presidency of our great land, we are left to ask why are our children being treated like a plague instead of the product of real love? Children cannot join in the decision of who will govern our country let alone our individual states, but they are being arrested, tried and sentence as adults.

In the case of Jake Eakin and Evan Savoie, a life was lost. The life of Craig Sorger, who was all of thirteen. At the time he was attacked and killed, Jake and Evan were only twelve and rather small. Unfortunately, Jake and Evan made one fatal mistake. They were friends to Craig. They played with him and talked to him and yes, even laughed with him. And on that fateful day in February of 2003, in Ephrata, Washington, they went right up to his door and asked his mother if he could come out and play. A short time later, Craig was dead and Jake and Evan were at home.

What the prosecution claims as an open and shut case against Eakin and Savoie is anything but. They have maintained their innocence since day one and their stories about what transpired that day are not only alike, but remain the same after over a year of being locked away in a juvenile justice center. So many factors and facts about that day have been ignored and overlooked and two terrified and frightened little boys face the possibility of spending the next twenty-six years in prison for something they continue to deny.

Can we, as human beings, ignore any of this? No. We must help bring justice back to children. Both boys are now facing an adult court due to this crime. And just recently, an eighteen year old was tried and sentenced AS A JUVENILE in this same state for one count of 2nd Degree rape and one count of 3rd Degree rape. A juvenile at eighteen but at thirteen, Jake and Evan face adult court and incarceration. Where is any logic in that? There is none. There is no evidence, no motive, no DNA, no fingerprints and no confessions. It is apparent that prosecuting these two children amounts to no less than a witch-hunt where innocent children suffer. The state of Washington needs to see to it that the investigators in Ephrata not only actually investigate, but that they find actual evidence and use it to arrest the real perpetrator or perpetrators and stop looking for easy answers when it comes to "closing" a case.

We ask that you sign our petition to help bring attention to Jake and Evans situation and hopefully give them the true justice they deserve as children. Thank you.