ximmy
4th April 2012, 01:05 AM
I thought it would be funny.
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In early 2001, an 11-year-old Kalama girl named Cassandra Ann Kennedy told police her dad raped her on at least three occasions. Her father, Thomas Edward Kennedy, denied the allegation, but he was convicted by a jury and sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.
In January, Cassandra Kennedy, now 23, told Longview police she made it all up. So after serving more than nine years in prison, her father was released last week and the charges against him were dismissed.
Sorry Daddy
http://30unbreakablemanlaws.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/sunshine_happy_girls_laughing.jpgCowlitz County Prosecutor Sue Baur said Friday she's never seen a case quite like it. The innocent are sometimes freed after years in prison by the work of pro-bono legal teams and new DNA evidence. But Baur said she's never known a child to return to authorities a decade later and recant, certainly not with enough credibility to scuttle a case.
"This is something my whole office is talking about," she said. "This is the kind of thing that shouldn't happen."
Reached Friday, Thomas Kennedy, now 43, declined to comment, saying he's simply trying to get on with his life. Longview police, who investigated both the initial allegations in 2001 and the details that later exonerated Kennedy, also declined to comment and referred questions to Baur.
It was just a joke
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_506/127453095032fjp5.jpgBaur said Cassandra Kennedy will not be prosecuted for her apparent lies about her father, partly because prosecutors do not want to discourage people in similar circumstances from coming forward.
'I needed to do what was right'
Cassandra Kennedy called Longview police on Jan. 23, saying she wanted to talk about her father's 2002 conviction, according to investigative reports. She sat down with a pair of detectives at the department three days later.
"I need to do what is right," she told them, according to a report.
No, Cassandra told police, her father never touched her. For nearly a decade, she said, her father had been sitting in prison based on her lies.
http://plus4chan.org/boards/ck/src/127251060397.jpg
In early 2001, an 11-year-old Kalama girl named Cassandra Ann Kennedy told police her dad raped her on at least three occasions. Her father, Thomas Edward Kennedy, denied the allegation, but he was convicted by a jury and sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.
In January, Cassandra Kennedy, now 23, told Longview police she made it all up. So after serving more than nine years in prison, her father was released last week and the charges against him were dismissed.
Sorry Daddy
http://30unbreakablemanlaws.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/sunshine_happy_girls_laughing.jpgCowlitz County Prosecutor Sue Baur said Friday she's never seen a case quite like it. The innocent are sometimes freed after years in prison by the work of pro-bono legal teams and new DNA evidence. But Baur said she's never known a child to return to authorities a decade later and recant, certainly not with enough credibility to scuttle a case.
"This is something my whole office is talking about," she said. "This is the kind of thing that shouldn't happen."
Reached Friday, Thomas Kennedy, now 43, declined to comment, saying he's simply trying to get on with his life. Longview police, who investigated both the initial allegations in 2001 and the details that later exonerated Kennedy, also declined to comment and referred questions to Baur.
It was just a joke
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_506/127453095032fjp5.jpgBaur said Cassandra Kennedy will not be prosecuted for her apparent lies about her father, partly because prosecutors do not want to discourage people in similar circumstances from coming forward.
'I needed to do what was right'
Cassandra Kennedy called Longview police on Jan. 23, saying she wanted to talk about her father's 2002 conviction, according to investigative reports. She sat down with a pair of detectives at the department three days later.
"I need to do what is right," she told them, according to a report.
No, Cassandra told police, her father never touched her. For nearly a decade, she said, her father had been sitting in prison based on her lies.