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    "title": "Girl Changes Rape Story; Dad Finally Freed from Jail After 9 Years",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "title": "Women",
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    "created": "2012-08-09 18:33:28 UTC",
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        "2012-08-09 18:33:28 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>In 2001, a then 11-year-old Cassandra Ann Kennedy accused her dad of rape. Her father, Thomas Edward Kennedy denied the allegations, but was still found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in jail.</p>\n<p>Nine years later, Cassandra admitted that she lied about the rape. And just last week, her dad was finally released from prison, after serving a wrongful 9-year sentence.</p>\n<p>\u00e2\u0080\u009cI did a horrible thing,\u00e2\u0080\u009d Cassandra told the police. \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt\u00e2\u0080\u0099s not OK to sit and be locked in this horrible place for something you didn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t do. It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s just not right.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>\u00e2\u0080\u009cI just want him to be out and freed,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she added. \u00e2\u0080\u009cI will be free on the inside.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>Cassandra confessed that she was angry after her parent\u00e2\u0080\u0099s divorce and was determined to set her father up, after learning of a friend\u00e2\u0080\u0099s stepdad who went to prison for a sex crime.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://itsybitsysteps.com/girl-changes-rape-story-after-nine-years-dad-freed/\">Girl Changes Rape Story; Dad Finally Freed from Jail After 9 Years</a></em>.</p>\n"
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