Quote: (04-04-2012 06:07 PM)j r Wrote:
This is a pretty shitty story, but I oldnemesis is right. How do you charge someone for a crime that happened 10 years ago when the perpetrator was 11? I just did a quick search and the statute of limitations on perjury and making false statements are both less than 10 years. Granted, that's what I found with two minutes of googling, so maybe i'm wrong.
All that said, this is pretty infuriating. You have to wonder where the mother was in all this. The story says that the girl admitted to lying way back in '02, but then went back to the story again. It's funny that there seem to be plenty of women out there who turn a blind eye when their husbands or boyfriends are actual child abusers and plenty of women who stand by grade A scumbags. Once she's out of love with you, though, fuggedahboutit... you're on your own.
I've seen the "but she was only 11 at the time" argument but where was this woman when she turned 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22? Remember, she's 23 now.
And even now, this is the reason why she recanted:
"I just want him to be out and freed," Cassandra said in her interview with the police. Then, she said, "I will be free on the inside."
So she can be free on the inside. I doubt she gives a damn that her father has been raped multiple times considering how inmates treat convicts of this nature. Not only was the guy seen as a child rapist, but a daughter rapist as well, which equals guaranteed rape in prison...