Hello,

My name is Walter Alexander Sorto, i am from El Salvador.
I am 28 years old. I have been incarcerated since August 20, 2002. I was sent to prison for a crime i did not commit, i don't even know what happened. Whoever did the crime is someone else and i am being punished for something i did not do.

The person who did that is a man i only saw a couple of occasions, just because of that and for not being able to speak English the State blamed me for something they know all too well i am innocent of. The person who committed the crime has already confessed to the crime, but even when they know about this they did not want to let me go. And given that i did not have the funds to hire an attorney so that he in turn could hire a private investigator to do a thorough investigation and prove to the State that i am innocent. But since i did not have the funds that is why i find myself in this place now. Most of times the State has the upper hand because they appoint you an attorney to help you but the truth is that they do not help you since you are not the one who's paying them, it's the State. That is why they don't try to help the people. That is also one of the reasons why i could not do a thing, and i don't speak English i did not even know what was happening. My attorney lied to me, he told me everything was going well but he did not even visit me to let me know how the case was going, he didn't visit me at all.

I don't have a family here other than my three daughters, my sister and my aunt, who is like a mother to me and my mother and father live in El Salvador. I love my family dearly, i miss my daughters a lot since they are still little. That is why i am fighting for my life so that hopefully one day i can be with them all again. Sometimes i feel so depresssed i just ask God to give me the strength to go on. I have faith in God that He will help me i just have to be a little more patient for in this solitude which i find myself in only God is with me.


Well, thank you so much for your time...

Sincerely;
Walter A. Sorto