In early 2001, an 11-year-old Kalama girl named Cassandra Ann Kennedy told police her dad raped her on at least three occasions. Her father, Thomas Edward Kennedy, denied the allegation, but he was convicted by a jury and sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.
In January, Cassandra Kennedy, now 23, told Longview police she made it all up. So after serving more than nine years in prison, her father was released last week and the charges against him were dismissed.
“I did a horrible thing,” Cassandra told detectives in January, according to a police report. “It’s not OK to sit and be locked in this horrible place for something you didn’t do. It’s just not right.”
Is it fair that after her father served time in prison for her not to be charged?
Baur said Cassandra Kennedy will not be prosecuted for her apparent lies about her father, partly because prosecutors do not want to discourage people in similar circumstances from coming forward.
She should serve the remainder of the sentence. If people in similar circumstances are also lying, they should be discouraged from coming forward.
Rotten bitch!!!