From the HUFFINGTON POST:
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 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…
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EDITOR: We read that the portion of the brain that causes us to use good judgment only begins to take charge in the early teen years. We know it from our own life. We see it elsewhere. How is a father or any man to defend himself against such charges where it is just a matter of the child’s word against the man?
Remember the spate of hysteria where nursery students were falsely accusing their honorable teachers of sex crimes? These are difficult waters to navigate.
This happens all the time – Often at the underhanded direction of “Mommy Dearest”.
American jails are loaded with innocent men who got railroaded as part of their divorce.