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ProudToBeBlueInRhody

(16,399 posts)
Sun Aug 18, 2013, 09:52 PM Aug 2013

Daughter: I lied and sent my dad to prison for rape

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/18/19936408-daughter-i-lied-and-sent-my-dad-to-prison-for-rape?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=1

Chaneya Kelly is on a mission: she wants the world to know about a horrible lie she says she told almost 16 years ago – a lie that cost a man his freedom.

“I'm 24 years old and I made this mistake when I was nine years old,” Chaneya told NBC News, “but it's never too late to try and right your wrong. “

Chaneya says that in 1997, she falsely accused a man of raping her. That man – who has always maintained his innocence -- is Daryl Kelly, Chaneya’s father.

“All I think is, ‘One day the truth will set me free,’” said Kelly, from Green Haven Correctional Facility in upstate New York. “All I have to do is hold on.”
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radicalliberal

(907 posts)
2. I'll think I've heard it all, and then I'll read something like this. Absolutely sickening!
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 03:06 AM
Aug 2013

It's a wonder he wasn't killed by one of the other inmates.

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)
6. Actually, even the majority of sex offenders complete their sentences relatively unharmed.
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 08:02 PM
Aug 2013

And as much as I despise those who victimize children (and others) I'm not big on vigilantism.

radicalliberal

(907 posts)
9. I agree with you about not being big on vigilantism.
Sun Aug 25, 2013, 11:07 AM
Aug 2013

For example, I believe Jerry Sandusky should be protected from other inmates, as I assume is being done. (Again, my heart bleeds for the victims.)

I was pointing out the complete irresponsibility of making false charges against an innocent man. I can't image what it would be like to be wrongfully imprisoned. It's sickening.

Inkfreak

(1,695 posts)
3. I found it odd that the mother couldn't explain herself.
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 05:43 AM
Aug 2013

We saw the case on the nightly news last night. My wife and I were puzzled by the Moms lack of insight as to why she would make her daughter do such a thing. She claims she was under the influence of drugs at the time and that's it. It's just odd. Bookmarking the page to read fully. I bet there is a lot more about this story to come.

alp227

(32,459 posts)
4. Charade Kelly: You fucked up REAL rape victims with your stupid shit.
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 02:45 PM
Aug 2013

And thanks to Charade Kelly the ignorant drones of MRA "women lie about rape all the time and wreck men's lives" drones have woken up again. AAAARRRRGH!

 

opiate69

(10,129 posts)
5. So...
Wed Aug 21, 2013, 06:26 PM
Aug 2013

A mans life has been irrevocably harmed, and all you can muster is "blargle, blargle, MRA!!! blargle yabble!!!"? I think you've got your safe-havens mixed up.

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)
7. I understand where he's coming from though. Because this has the potential to do harm
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 08:07 PM
Aug 2013

to far more than just one individual. Even as awful as this one man's ordeal has been.

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)
10. For the record, I get what you were saying. I don't think you were at all trivializing
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 06:30 PM
Sep 2013

this poor man's personal nightmare.

Upton

(9,709 posts)
11. I keep reading how this stuff hardly ever happens..
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 08:55 PM
Sep 2013

but then you go and do a search on "false rape allegations" or some variation thereof..and you get some interesting hits..cases like Tawana Brawley come up, Brian Banks (who spent 5 years in prison and lost his pro football career), or this woman in the UK who actually falsely accused 5 ex boyfriends of rape before she was finally found out and ended up getting 2 years herself..

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/brian-banks-accuser-ordered-pay-2-6-million-163746471.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2358759/Leanne-Black-finally-jailed-FIVE-false-rape-allegations-ex-boyfriends-years.html

Again, I keep hearing how this virtually never occurs, but the evidence would at least suggest it happens more than some advocacy groups would have us believe. The stories up above stand out because they involve celebrity, absurdity in one case, and finally exoneration, but one has to wonder..how many men are sitting in prison right now accused and then convicted of sex crimes who are just as innocent?

ProudToBeBlueInRhody

(16,399 posts)
12. Someone intimated the other day, to paraphrase, "it's (not) a big deal".
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 09:04 PM
Sep 2013

No. IT IS a big fucking deal. I know I take rape allegations very seriously. Everyone should. When someone lies about it, it is still a big fucking deal.

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