NMSVH Settlement Announced

(the blind school)

“Beginning with the October, 1996, issue of the Braille Monitor, we have periodically reported on the unfolding problems at the New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped (NMSVH). A settlement in the civil suit brought by a number of current and former NMSVH students was worked out last January shortly before the case was due to go to court. The terms of the settlement were kept secret for six months, but in August they were made public. Here is the text of the Albuquerque Journal article reporting the details that appeared on August 4, 1998:
Blind Suit Cost Released
$1.2 Million Settled Student Abuse Claims
by Rene Romo
Las Cruces—The state and an Alamogordo-based school for the blind paid $1.2 million to settle a civil suit involving the alleged physical and sexual abuse of fifteen former students.
The state Risk Management Division, which insured the New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped, on Monday released the figure corresponding to its share of the settlement—
$800,000.

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One former female student, the first to go public with criticism of the school, said she was gang-raped at knifepoint by four other students in the school gym in 1976 and then told to remain quiet when the incident was reported to the former school superintendent.
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From another publication (Braille Monitor July 1997):
Pasternak said he has been informed that Watkins "is not in therapy, but he is on medications."
"If Watkins is mentally ill, that explains everything about this case," Pasternak said. "It becomes pertinent to this case."
He did not speculate as to when Watkins, who retired July 1, [1996], might have become
mentally ill.



Mathis ordered that Watkins make himself available for depositions before June 24. Pasternak expects a week or two delay.
Through his protective order, Watkins escaped previously scheduled deposition dates on January 15, February 15, and May 15.”

So, at that stage, more than 15 years after Frank Carr's demise the Blind School finally gets rid of Watkins- New Mexico, grrrrrr

The judges-

Three judges were prominent during the arrest and trials of Frank Carr, many other judges appear previous to his first arrest. We will deal with them later, as there are many.

The Three:

Henry Prelo, Magistrate Judge. Prelo was from Tularosa but served in Alamogordo. Around forty years on the bench, he was well liked, respected by the police. Prelo had no power to do anything legally without a Grand Jury indictment or a signed complaint. Prelo had sent people out of the county to file complaints.

Prelo issued the arrest warrant for Carr after the first Grand Jury issued a “true bill” based on testimony from some victims, one was seven (7) when Carr raped her- her father was involved.

Robert Doughty II, District Judge, ex-lawyer, District Attorney then appointed as judge. Doughty had been District Attorney while many complaints involving Carr floated around. Doughty buried every note and any leads not “lost” were disappeared. As District Judge, Doughty quashed (removed) the Prelo arrest warrant. The Grand Jury and its “bill” were gone. Doughty was one of the “bank-boys.”

George Zimmerman, District Judge. Zimmerman was an ex-lawyer then district Judge, He was a neighbor of Carr's, a “bank-boy” and a member of Carr's church. He presided over the second Grand Jury. Initially he controlled the subpoenas. After many no-shows and failure to deliver returns the Grand Jury told him to give them signed, blank subpoenas or they would complain to the state Supreme Court. He delivered a stack of pre-signed subpoenas. Presiding over the arrest and both Carr hearings he lost much of the respect he had once had in the local community. The first hearing stunned everyone in the packed courtroom- no jail time!

The rest of the Carr Grand Jury/courtroom/arrest warrant story is elsewhere.

With Coronado in 1540 until the present, what became known as the American Southwest hosted Europeans. Europeans did not bring smuggling, kidnapping, murder and the like to the area, those actions were already in full operation. Europeans did bring the beginning of a culture rampant with corruption, sexual child abuse and greed of a scale the native Americans could never understand.


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By the time Americans supplanted Mexicans and Spaniards smuggling routes from Mexico to the American mid-west were already firmly established. As with the famed Santa Fe Trail, goods and people flowed in both directions.


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In what became New Mexico Territory two major routes from north to south existed. The main route for many years was from Santa Fe south, following the Rio Grande to El Paso Del Norte, across the river in present day Mexico. The easterly route came down the Pecos River valley. Until the later part of the 1870s this route was seldom used due to Comanche and Apache troubles. As that century closed railroads through the Pecos and into central New Mexico served to insulate the smuggling routes from outside interference.


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Wichita, Kansas served as the northern terminal area. Blond children stolen from the upper mid-west, guns and ammo along with hired killers entered into the routes ending near present day Juarez and El Paso. In the early days gold headed north. As the 1930s ended, drugs entered into the northern stream supplanting gold. By the end of world War II drugs were the major commodity headed north.


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The Sacramento Mountains just west of the Pecos provide three main valleys for smugglers. The eastern most valley leaves Dell City, Texas going north a few miles west of modern day Carlsbad, New Mexico. A few ranches in that area of the mountains have landing strips used by low flying small planes. A few paved roads exist as well- paid for through political connections with tax dollars to service the smugglers. The other two valleys serve shorter distances. All three come together west of Roswell, New Mexico in the foothills of the Hondo River (Rio Hondo.)


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The main point of control in south central New Mexico is the First National Bank in Alamogordo, New Mexico.


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This is the foundation, the groundwork that allowed the crimes that follow here to exist and flourish.




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a little more- from notes

I vaguely remember Frank Carr's 'score' was something like 234 teenagers spread over 30+ years.

Every person in town that was an adult in 1960 knew about him. 

Nothing was done, why?

Influence- from politics to money and the FBI, many people had a hand in getting this scumbag a nothing sentence.

Others involved- from religious hot shots to bankers- the list is long. At the same time there was a teenage boy-toy room as well

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How long does it take?

Public Outing

”Frank Carr, ex-mayor of Alamogordo has been charged with multiple counts of criminal contact with multiple minors. Sexual misconduct including . . ” 

With a low amount of static this radio knife cut me with the rawness of frozen barbed wire. Immediately I pulled my pickup over to the curb. Very little more came from the radio. I was shocked beyond belief. What I had just heard must be a mistake, it was incomprehensible.

This was October 1981. Looking back from the present of 2009 I am still amazed at the cover-ups and denials that followed Frank Carr's two trials.

How many people my age (60+) had their young lives torn apart by this man and others?