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Kids Recant
This is a sad tale, and even more sadly one the authorities have either not learned from or don't care about because at this very moment in time similar miscarriages of justice are happening including on this side of the Atlantic. Traffic cop Ray Spencer was a womaniser and a jerk, though not necessarily in that order, but was he a child rapist who preyed on his own daughter and son? That was the contention of the State, and by the time a third victim materialised he had begun to doubt his own veracity if not his sanity, so much so that he entered an Alford plea at his trial, which led to the judge throwing the book at him.
He would eventually be both freed from gaol and exonerated after his son and daughter - by then adults - recanted. We see too the suppressed evidence which would almost certainly have swayed a jury, and hear how his second wife set him up for the third charge.
The record was set straight in this case only because of exceptional circumstances and exceptional people, one woman in particular, and that coupled with the fact that Spencer was a police officer begs the question, how many other innocents are there rotting away in gaol branded as monsters due to the manipulation of the judicial process?
He would eventually be both freed from gaol and exonerated after his son and daughter - by then adults - recanted. We see too the suppressed evidence which would almost certainly have swayed a jury, and hear how his second wife set him up for the third charge.
The record was set straight in this case only because of exceptional circumstances and exceptional people, one woman in particular, and that coupled with the fact that Spencer was a police officer begs the question, how many other innocents are there rotting away in gaol branded as monsters due to the manipulation of the judicial process?
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