Daughter's rape lie recanted; father freed after 9 years; DA declines to prosecute daughter because its just TFB
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Posted 4/2/2012 9:00 pm
The Cowlitz County prosecutor says she wont charge a Longview woman who admitted she lied when she said her father raped her sending him to prison for more than nine years.
Prosecutor Sue Baur says charging Cassandra Kennedy might discourage girls from reporting sexual assaults.
Now 23 years old, Kennedy says guilt prompted her to tell police in January that she lied as an 11 year old in 2001 in Kalama.
The Daily News reports her father, Thomas Edward Kennedy, denied the allegation but was convicted by a jury and sentenced in 2002 to more than 15 years in prison.
Now 43, Kennedy was released last week and all charges against him were dismissed.
Cassandra Kennedy says she lied because she was disappointed in her father after her parents divorced.
Posted 4/2/2012 9:04 pm
I don't agree with the prosecutor's decision not to file charges against the woman who lied. This man's life is ruined. He spent 9 years in prison because of this lie.
Victims have nothing to fear if they are truthful with investigators. What kind of message does this send to people who make things up aginst others?
Posted 4/2/2012 9:06 pm
While he may have been innocent of that charge, he was surely guilty of something else he otherwise got totally away with. So it was time well spent.
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Posted 4/2/2012 9:16 pm
If a prosecutor prosecuted an innocent man in ancient Rome, they were branded on their forehead with the symbol of the false accuser.
Posted 4/2/2012 9:18 pm
She may have been 11 when she first lied, but every day afterwards that she remained silent was a new crime. She deserves to go to jail.
