WRONGFUL PROSECUTION IN AMERICA! US Navy Veteran Jailed 40yrs in Prison for ‘Sexual Assault’…Daughter begs Father ‘Dad forgive me, Mum forced me to lie against you’ *Her Confession: “Based on my testimony (I was coached by the prosecution and taught words like “penis” and “vagina”), it took the jury only hours to find him guilty, and he was sentenced to 20 to 40 years” * Accused charged with multiple counts of rape and sodomy despite no physical evidence * ‘I made my daughter to lie against her father when I was high on drug’-Prostitute Mum * ‘The system says he’s not innocent’-District Attorney, New York

WRONGFUL PROSECUTION IN AMERICA!

US Navy Veteran Jailed 40yrs in Prison for ‘Sexual Assault’…Daughter begs Father ‘Dad forgive me, Mum forced me to lie against you’

*Her Confession: “Based on my testimony (I was coached by the prosecution and taught words like “penis” and “vagina”), it took the jury only hours to find him guilty, and he was sentenced to 20 to 40 years”

* Accused charged with multiple counts of rape and sodomy despite no physical evidence

* ‘I made my daughter to lie against her father when I was high on drug’-Prostitute Mum

* ‘The system says he’s not innocent’–District Attorney, New York

BY STEVE THOMAS/JUDICIAL REPORTER, NEW YORK

THIS life can be so cruel, very cruel. For Daryl Kelly Sr., a United States Navy veteran who served assiduously the American military-life has been agonizing, cruel and painful, bearing in mind that he was sent to prison since 1998 for a crime he did not committed. His conviction was based on a lie, his then 8 year old daughter, Nancy, now in her 20s was compelled to tell the police due to her ‘drug-addicted mother’s pressure’ after been repeatedly threatened and beaten.

Today, Nancy is a mother, feeling so guilty having realized overtime that her biological jail adventure was as a result of the lie she told. Now, she has no peace of mind wherever she goes.

Her story: “When I was just 8 years old, my drug addicted mother forced me to make an accusation of sexual abuse against my father. But the truth is that my father had never laid a finger on me. Even my mother has admitted she forced me to lie about this during one of her drug binges. But my father is still in prison, 15 years after being wrongfully convicted. 

In tears, she said: “I have been trying for years now to be heard. Now that I have matured into a mother, this fight is even more important to me. I have written Governor Cuomo and spoken to members of a committee of district attorneys who were reviewing my case – but they won’t listen to me. All they did was tried to put it in my head that my father did do this and I am suppressing it.”

Naija Standard gathered that “It all happened in October of 1997, when my family was living in Newburgh, N.Y. My dad, a Navy veteran, owned a local electronics repair shop. But my mother was so seriously addicted to drugs that she had got involved in prostitution to feed her addiction. One day, out of the blue, she repeatedly asked me if my father had ever touched me. Over and over I told her no; until she became so furious she threatened to beat me with a belt unless I told her what she wanted to hear. To avoid being beaten, I answered “yes”, even though it wasn’t true.”

Nancy: how her mother lied against her father to the police

Distraught Nancy explained: “After my mother went to police he was arrested and charged with multiple counts of rape and sodomy despite no physical evidence. He maintained his innocence and refused a plea deal that would have made him eligible for parole in six years, and within a year he faced a jury. Based on my testimony (I was coached by the prosecution and taught words like “penis” and “vagina”), it took the jury only hours to find him guilty, and he was sentenced to 20 to 40 years.

“Last year the head of the Conviction Review Bureau at the N.Y. Attorney General’s office called for my father’s case to be reviewed. But the district attorney who prosecuted him won’t listen and upheld his conviction. He says my testimony is not credible and that “the system says he’s not innocent.” I then spoke with a committee of district attorneys who were reviewing my dad’s case and they wouldn’t listen to what I had to say – they just kept telling me I must be repressing the abuse.

“My dad needs to be freed and this wrong must be righted. I will not stop until it is. So far, all of his appeals have been denied   – the courts need to listen or Governor Cuomo should grant my father clemency.

“When I turned 15, I saw my father in prison. The first thing he did was hug me and he tell me that he loved me and … that he doesn’t blame me for anything. That meant the world to me and now I need your help to set him free.”