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Cowlitz County Prosecutor Sue Baur says that the county will not take legal action against Kennedy, partly because authorities do not want to discourage individuals who have, in fact, suffered from sexual harassment from stepping forward.

This is an utter travesty. I suppose the court system also doesn't want to redress a miscarriage of justice by charging the girl with false accusation of rape? How will punishing people for lying discourage people who want to tell the truth about their sexual abuse from stepping forward?

Shame that a man has to serve a jail sentence for a crime he obviously didn't commit, not to mention it was his daughter who falsely testified against him. It shouldn't matter whether or not the girl was a minor at that time, sexually abused or not - lying in court is perjury is punishable by law. Authorities at that time should have investigated whether or not the girl was telling the truth as studies have shown that children are predisposed to lie about events that never occurred.