Man does 19 yrs for child molesting. Now "victim" says she made it all up!!

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Another he said she said case falls apart. We need to stop convicting people just on what the alleged victim says. People lie about everything.

Man in prison 19 years for child molestation freed after alleged victim admits making story up to get more attention from her mother - Orrazz

Jerry Lee Brock, 55, had been in prison since his conviction for first-degree molestation in 1995. In 2012, the alleged victim, Regina Rush, came forward to say she made the whole thing up, partly as a way to get more attention from her mother.

Last week, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Erik Price ordered a new trial after finding the recantation credible, and on Thursday, he signed an order vacating Brock's conviction. The order stated that Brock "shall no longer remain in the custody of the Washington State Department of Corrections."

. A new trial was scheduled for February, but it wasn't clear prosecutors would proceed with it, given that the girl's story was the primary evidence against him.

Rush was 11 years old when she accused Brock, a friend of her mother, of molesting her while she was sleeping. She repeated the allegations at trial, and Brock was convicted. He was sentenced to life in prison under the state's "three-strikes" law; he also had convictions for burglary and promoting prostitution.

But in 2012, Rush came forward to say she was haunted by what she had done. In a six-page, typewritten admission, she denied that Brock touched her inappropriately. She said she made up the story because she wanted attention from her mother and because she worried that Brock was a drug user and a bad influence on her mom
 
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There is almost no way to protect yourself from a monumental lie. Which is why the liars should be punished more harshly than the crime itself.
 
Not enough details for detailed commentary, but this is why prosecutors almost always insist on some sort of corroborating evidence before they will prosecute a case like this. There is just too much possibility for abuse of process.

And who knows? Maybe the story was the truth, but she just decided he had been punished enough and recanted to get him off.
 
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Not enough details for detailed commentary, but this is why prosecutors almost always insist on some sort of corroborating evidence before they will prosecute a case like this. .

No they don't you liar. In claims of `sexual assault all it takes is the word of the victim and you go to trial. You are a legal ignoramus.
 
She should serve 19 years and the man wrongfully imprisoned should receive $19 million from the state.
 
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She should serve 19 years and the man wrongfully imprisoned should receive $19 million from the state.

She was only 11 years old when it happened.

Which tells me the prosecutor should have suspected she was unreliable and not pressed charges. But lawyers aren't like that. Lawyers have a saying "anyone can convict a guilty men, but it takes a really sharp lawyer to convict an innocent man".
 
Feminists hate it when stories like this come out. Women make a fortune off rape extortion and they don't want juries to find out that in most he said she said trials, the accuser is lying.
 
How could that guy get anything if there wasn't any proof to back up what the girl was saying?

God bless you always!!!

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Juries do whatever they want and prosecutors know it. The jury knew there was no proof and the girl was likely lying, but the jurors just didn't like they accused and so they said guilty. Happens every day.
 
There is almost no way to protect yourself from a monumental lie. Which is why the liars should be punished more harshly than the crime itself.
Yeah..I think the most dangerous job is a high school teacher. Especially a male teacher.
There was a case recently where a male teacher was accused by 4 girls of some type of sexual thing.
As the investigation progressed there were holes appearing in the stories told by the girls. One girl finally cracked under pressure from her parents who finally were able to drag the truth from her.
The teacher was cleared. However his reputation has been tarnished. He is fighting the school district to be reinstated. He is also suing the parents of all 4 girls.
The facts of the case became clear once the girl confessed they were angry with the teacher about their grades.
 
She should serve 19 years and the man wrongfully imprisoned should receive $19 million from the state.

She was only 11 years old when it happened.

What would posses an 11 year old to lie about something like that?
Someone put her up to it.
On many occasions that is the case.
If anyone remembers the Mc Martin Preschool case, the school's owner and teachers were all hit with multiple charges of sexual abuse, dragged through the system, hired attorneys which cost them their entire net worth. They lost their preschool and property. All for nothing. The entire case fell apart when it was determined the children were coached by the prosecution. Expert witnesses were found to be biased advocates. They were part of the "believe the children" movement
 

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