11 years in jail

[bedub1]

http://www.wwltv.com/around-the-web/Man ... 71615.html

A 23-year-old Washington woman who admitted she lied when she said her father raped her won't be facing any charges.

Prosecutors said if they were to charge Cassandra Kennedy with a crime, it might discourage girls from reporting sexual assaults.

Kennedy, who said she lied because she was disappointed in her father after her parents divorced, said it was guilt that finally compelled her to come forward to police and admit she lied that her father raped her as an 11-year-old girl in 2001.

Thomas Edward Kennedy, Cassandra's father, denied the allegations, but was convicted by a jury in 2002 and sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.

I think she should be imprisoned for 11 years. Not filing charges is a terrible idea. The Prosecutors are pussies. Girls need to realize if they make false statements, they go to jail. We can't send the message that you can lie and get away with it.

[Johnny Rockets]

Perhaps instead of discouraging girls to report rape, just punishment would discourage girls from lying and slander and ruining an innocent persons life.

I can understand how an 11 year old can act out without any cognitive grasp of the consequences to others, but you would think or perhaps hope that she would have made things right a little sooner than a decade later. What was stopping her 2 or three years ago? Fear of retribution?

At the very least, monetary compensation , or community service to prevent malicious copycats from popping out of the woodwork.


JRock

[jammyjames]

This reminds me somewhat of a case that's happened before; ill try dig up the article from somewhere...

Years ago there was the case where someone got sent down for murdering someone, then once his time was finished - he went out and found the guy (who by the way was still alive) and killed him.. Police could do nothing about it because the time for the particular crime had already been spent and you cannot be tried for the same crime twice..

This just reminded me of it somewhat.

[Siedshow99]

This reminds me somewhat of a case that's happened before; ill try dig up the article from somewhere...

Years ago there was the case where someone got sent down for murdering someone, then once his time was finished - he went out and found the guy (who by the way was still alive) and killed him.. Police could do nothing about it because the time for the particular crime had already been spent and you cannot be tried for the same crime twice..

This just reminded me of it somewhat.

You're talking about Double Jeopardy, the 1999 blockbuster thriller featuring Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd. Not Tommy Lee's best work, but certainly better than U.S. Marshalls, which IMHO, was sub par.

[bedub1]

Perhaps instead of discouraging girls to report rape, just punishment would discourage girls from lying and slander and ruining an innocent persons life.
JRock

Exactly!

[patches70]

I bet the holidays are really awkward in that family now.....

[jammyjames]

This reminds me somewhat of a case that's happened before; ill try dig up the article from somewhere...

Years ago there was the case where someone got sent down for murdering someone, then once his time was finished - he went out and found the guy (who by the way was still alive) and killed him.. Police could do nothing about it because the time for the particular crime had already been spent and you cannot be tried for the same crime twice..

This just reminded me of it somewhat.

You're talking about Double Jeopardy, the 1999 blockbuster thriller featuring Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd. Not Tommy Lee's best work, but certainly better than U.S. Marshalls, which IMHO, was sub par.

Ahhh, my bad - now you say it i do remember it being that film.. Read too many things on the internet, just fell into the void

[keiths31]

Wow. I can see her as an 11 year old doing this...but as you get older, your conscious has to kick in before this point. Not only has her innocent father spend 11 years in jail, but I am pretty sure most of his family have turned against him. His life is ruined regardless of the courts declaring him innocent. That label will never leave him.

[john9blue]

how about we change the entire mindset of "oh no look at that poor crying woman, she's definitely been abused and is definitely not faking her emotions"

[BigBallinStalin]

Welcome back, bedub! How was jail?

[Lootifer]

http://www.wwltv.com/around-the-web/Man-released-after-11-years-in-jail-after-daughter-admits-rape-claim-was-a-lie-145871615.html

A 23-year-old Washington woman who admitted she lied when she said her father raped her won't be facing any charges.

Prosecutors said if they were to charge Cassandra Kennedy with a crime, it might discourage girls from reporting sexual assaults.

Kennedy, who said she lied because she was disappointed in her father after her parents divorced, said it was guilt that finally compelled her to come forward to police and admit she lied that her father raped her as an 11-year-old girl in 2001.

Thomas Edward Kennedy, Cassandra's father, denied the allegations, but was convicted by a jury in 2002 and sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.

I think she should be imprisoned for 11 years. Not filing charges is a terrible idea. The Prosecutors are pussies. Girls need to realize if they make false statements, they go to jail. We can't send the message that you can lie and get away with it.

It's just a very sad situation; no way she should be put away for 11 years, what would that accomplish?

She should be charged and made to do some type of community service involving the rehabilitation of criminals or something like that.

[bedub1]

http://www.wwltv.com/around-the-web/Man-released-after-11-years-in-jail-after-daughter-admits-rape-claim-was-a-lie-145871615.html

A 23-year-old Washington woman who admitted she lied when she said her father raped her won't be facing any charges.

Prosecutors said if they were to charge Cassandra Kennedy with a crime, it might discourage girls from reporting sexual assaults.

Kennedy, who said she lied because she was disappointed in her father after her parents divorced, said it was guilt that finally compelled her to come forward to police and admit she lied that her father raped her as an 11-year-old girl in 2001.

Thomas Edward Kennedy, Cassandra's father, denied the allegations, but was convicted by a jury in 2002 and sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.

I think she should be imprisoned for 11 years. Not filing charges is a terrible idea. The Prosecutors are pussies. Girls need to realize if they make false statements, they go to jail. We can't send the message that you can lie and get away with it.

It's just a very sad situation; no way she should be put away for 11 years, what would that accomplish?

She should be charged and made to do some type of community service involving the rehabilitation of criminals or something like that.

So charged with filing a false police report and perjury?

[Lootifer]

I guess so. I dont know the specifics of the US legal system.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

She took away 11 years of the man's life... that's a substantial portion. Also, child molesters are pretty much the bottom rung in prison. I'm sure this guy went through shit.

-TG

[BigBallinStalin]

Maybe she can compensate him with a 11 years of blowjobs? oh wait...

[PLAYER57832]

how about we change the entire mindset of "oh no look at that poor crying woman, she's definitely been abused and is definitely not faking her emotions"

AS long as we don't go back to " oh gee, she must have been asking for it... after all how could this have happened without anyone else knowing"... etc.

Seriously, did you all miss the fact that this was her FATHER? There was something else going on there for her to make such a statement against her father. And... prosecuters might well have been more willing to look at her statements knowing all the "emotional baggage" involved in such situations.

The way child abuses/family abuse of all kinds are handled does need to be examined, but to relate it to other types of rape is looking in the wrong direction.

This is definitely not the same as claiming a stranger or even "friend" committed rape.

That said, the facts are that far more rape goes unreported, unconvicted than are convicted.. even today.