Woman Admits Lying About Father Raping Her, But He’s STILL in Jail!

A man has spent nearly 16 years in jail for raping his 9-year-old daughter, and she’s finally come forward to say she made the whole thing up.

Chaneya Kelly, now 24, says the graphic stories she told about her father that sentenced him to 20-to-40 years in prison were never true. “I’m 24 years old and I made this mistake when I was 9 years old,” she told NBC, “but it’s never too late to try and right your wrong.”

It was October, 1997 when Chaneya says her mother, a former drug abuser and occasional prostitute for drug money, pulled her aside while she was leaving their bathroom in Newburgh. “She repeatedly asked me, has my dad touched me,” recalled Chaneya. “I was like, ‘What do you mean, did he touch me?’ And she was like, ‘Did he touch you in your no-no spot?’ And I would repeatedly say no.” Her father, Daryl Kelly, a Navy veteran and married father of five, had been trying to kick a drug habit himself at the time but never harmed her in any way, she’d later say.

But her mother, not hearing what she wanted, became demanding, until allegedly threatening her: “If you don’t tell me the answer that I want to hear, I’m going to beat you.” The 9-year-old succumbed to her threats, allowing her mother to call the police and take down her daughter’s statements, after allegedly going over exactly what her father had allegedly done to her.

In a videotape capturing her recantation a few years later, she would admit that she learned words like “penis” and “vagina” from the prosecution team. She learned how sex worked from pornography she found hidden under her parents’ bed.

On October 29, 1997, Daryl Kelly was taken to the police station, where they lied and told him they found his semen on his daughter’s clothing and body. Though Kelly vehemently denied the accusations, a jury found that his daughter’s story, which matched her mother’s, was enough to convict him.

Kelly was subsequently sentenced to 20-40 years in prison, and barred from any contact with his children. Here’s the crazy part: a few years later, Chaneya admitted to her grandmother that she lied, but the prosecutor said her story felt “coerced,” so they did nothing about it.

Chaneya’s grandmother videotaped the recant:

It took long years of guilt to eventually drive Chaneya forward, admitting what she had done to her grandmother, who videotaped her recant. Her mother, having sobered up over the years, signed an affidavit admitting to having threatened her daughter to lie as well. Today, Charade Kelly says she doesn’t know why she made her daughter lie about her father. “I have no idea, I really don’t,” she told NBC. She instead blames it on a three-day drug binge. “I was really deep in the grip of my addiction,” she said.

The mother and daughter’s testimony weren’t enough for a judge, however, who said the statements offered seemed “coerced” and denied overturning his conviction.

When Chaneya was 16 and permitted to visit her father in prison, she said their relationship has been renewed. “The first thing my dad did was that he hugged me and he told me that he loved me and … that he doesn’t blame me for anything,” Chaneya recalled. “It was priceless to me.”

State prosecutors are said to be reviewing the case now.

via TheWordEyeHeard

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