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**Sillaycheg** · 05-26-2012, 07:42 PM

This was earlier this year:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1402468.html

In 2001, an 11-year-old girl told a judge that her father raped her, sending the man to prison for nine years. Today, she admits that she lied.

Now 23-years-old, Cassandra Ann Kennedy says she made up the story because she was upset with her father following her parents' divorce, The Daily News reports.

Last week, authorities in Washington state finally released the father, Thomas Edward Kennedy, who was serving a 15 year prison term. All charges have been dropped thanks to the daughter's statement, made in January. Cowlitz County Prosecutor Sue Baur says that the county will not take legal action against Kennedy, partly because authorities do not want to discourage individuals who have, in fact, suffered from sexual harassment from stepping forward. Like I said, the woman's/child's word looks like enough evidence and there's no consequences for false accusations. The law may say otherwise but let's not act like juries don't have undue sympathy to alleged victims.

05-26-2012, 07:42 PM	#17
Sillaycheg Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 494 Senior Member	This was earlier this year: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1402468.html In 2001, an 11-year-old girl told a judge that her father raped her, sending the man to prison for nine years. Today, she admits that she lied. Now 23-years-old, Cassandra Ann Kennedy says she made up the story because she was upset with her father following her parents' divorce, The Daily News reports. Last week, authorities in Washington state finally released the father, Thomas Edward Kennedy, who was serving a 15 year prison term. All charges have been dropped thanks to the daughter's statement, made in January. Cowlitz County Prosecutor Sue Baur says that the county will not take legal action against Kennedy, partly because authorities do not want to discourage individuals who have, in fact, suffered from sexual harassment from stepping forward. Like I said, the woman's/child's word looks like enough evidence and there's no consequences for false accusations. The law may say otherwise but let's not act like juries don't have undue sympathy to alleged victims.
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