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Friday, July 08, 2011
Ind. Courts - "Incest charges refiled in ’02 Huntington case"
Rebecca S. Green reported July 7th in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:
Nearly 10 years after prosecutors dismissed a case against him, a father formerly of Huntington will be tried for incest after the case was refiled.The man, who now lives in Wisconsin, is charged with two Class B felony counts of incest and two Class C felony counts of incest. The Journal Gazette is not naming the man because doing so would identify the alleged victim. The Journal Gazette does not identify victims of sex crimes without their permission.
In January, Huntington County Prosecutor Amy Richison filed the charges against the man after the victim said she wanted to again pursue the case. Prosecutors originally charged the man with incest in 2002. But in 2003, the victim, then in high school, recanted her claims that her father had been having sex with her.
According to court documents, the woman has continued to struggle with emotional difficulties and in late 2009 decided to reopen the case against her father. * * *
She told police she was pressured by her father and other family members to drop the case against him in 2002. She said her father told her he would pay her money from a legal settlement if she would tell police that it didn’t happen, according to court documents.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 8, 2011 05:33 PM
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