Daughter lies about rape, sends father to jail for 16 years

[BEWD]

By Dan Slepian
Producer, NBC News

Chaneya Kelly is on a mission: she wants the world to know about a horrible lie she says she told almost 16 years ago – a lie that cost a man his freedom.

“I’m 24 years old and I made this mistake when I was nine years old,” Chaneya told NBC News, “but it’s never too late to try and right your wrong. “

Chaneya says that in 1997, she falsely accused a man of raping her. That man – who has always maintained his innocence – is Daryl Kelly, Chaneya’s father.

“All I think is, ‘One day the truth will set me free,’” said Kelly, from Green Haven Correctional Facility in upstate New York. “All I have to do is hold on.”

In October 1997, Daryl Kelly was living with his wife, Charade, and their five children in Newburgh, N.Y., 90 miles north of New York City. Chaneya, their oldest child, was two months shy of her ninth birthday.

At the time, Daryl – a Navy veteran who owned a local electronics repair shop – says he was trying to kick a drug habit to take care of his kids. But Charade was at rock bottom, even turning to prostitution to feed her addiction.

Chaneya remembers being downstairs with her father one morning before school when she had to use the bathroom. When she was done, she went upstairs, and that’s when Chaneya says her mother asked her a question that came out of the blue.

“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.”

Chaneya says the more she denied any abuse, the more irate her mother became – and even threatened her with a belt. According to Chaneya, her mother said, “If you don’t tell me the answer that I want to hear, I’m going to beat you.” To avoid a beating, says Chaneya, she told her mother that her father molested her even though it wasn’t true.

On the morning of October 29, 1997 Newburgh police took Kelly downtown for questioning. They found some of his answers suspicious.

Kelly Family

Chaneya Kelly with her son Julian and her father Daryl at New York’s Green Haven Correctional Facility in January.

For example, when they asked him why his semen and fingerprints were found on his daughter, Daryl scrambled for an explanation. According to a police report, he said, “My wife is doing drugs and alcohol. Maybe she’s setting me up.’“

He didn’t know until later that no semen or fingerprints had been found.

In fact, there was no definitive forensic evidence that Chaneya had been raped. While a doctor’s report did conclude that there was “possible sexual abuse” because of some redness, Chaneya’s hymen was intact even though she claimed her father had penetrated her.

But with both Chaneya and her mom telling police the same story, it was enough for police. Daryl Kelly was charged with multiple counts of rape and sodomy.

Kelly – who had never before been convicted of a felony – 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 Chaneya’s graphic testimony, it took them just hours to find her father guilty, and he was sentenced to 20 to 40 years and barred from having any contact with his children.

After her father’s conviction, authorities removed Chaneya from her mother’s custody, citing Charade’s drug abuse, and she was sent to live with her grandmother, Pat Thomas, a Pentecostal minister. It was there – six months after her father’s conviction – that Chaneya told her grandmother that she was never raped, and that the story had been born out of fear of her mother.

Grandmother Pat took Chaneya to Daryl’s appellate attorney, who videotaped her recantation, in which she says she learned words like “penis” and “vagina” from the prosecution team, and the mechanics of sex from pornography stashed under her parents’ bed. On the tape, she looks uncomfortable, mumbling short, hesitant answers like, “No,” and “I think so.”

Her mother, Charade, also submitted an affidavit to the court, swearing she threatened to beat Chaneya unless she said her father raped her.

The prosecutor argued that the recantation looked coerced, and the same judge who oversaw his original trial a year earlier agreed. He refused to vacate Kelly’s conviction.

As the years went by, Daryl began studying the law in prison, and began the long slog of filing appeals – all of which have been denied.

Meanwhile, Chaneya never gave up on her father. When she was 15, she convinced the courts to allow her to once again have contact with him – and that’s when she went to visit him in prison.

“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.”

Today, Chaneya’s mom Charade says she’s been drug-free for many years. In a recent interview with NBC News, Charade confirmed that she threatened her daughter with a beating, and said she can’t remember why she was so determined to make Chaneya say she had been molested. She blames the incident on a drug binge. “I [had been] gone for three days. And I was really deep in the grip of my addiction.” When asked why she would threaten her daughter if she didn’t lie, Charade said, “I have no idea, I really don’t.”

From behind prison walls, Daryl Kelly has written to anyone who will listen to his story. Last year, one of those letters landed on the desk of Thomas Schellhammer, the head of the newly formed Conviction Review Bureau at the N.Y. Attorney General’s office. Schellhammer contacted Orange County District Attorney Frank Phillips, the county’s elected chief prosecutor for almost 30 years, who was in charge when Daryl Kelly stood trial.

In an interview with NBC News, Phillips strongly defended the integrity of the original prosecution, saying he trained his prosecutors “that truth is the most important thing,” and stressing that a jury had found Kelly guilty.

rest of the story at the source: http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/18/19936408-daughter-i-lied-and-sent-my-dad-to-prison-for-rape?lite

Wow, there’d be nothing on earth that would stop me from choking the shit out of the girl’s mom. I’m not even going to get into the irony of her being named “Charade”

[Gimpy]

I knew by the name they were black. LOL!!! But in all seriousness, this is why alot of men, regardless of color, don’t want to get married and have a family because you got these problem-laced women out here. I can’t stand when a bitch uses the kids to try and set the father up.

[CHIEFxIRONLUNG]

I’m going on a limb to say these people are black.

[CHIEFxIRONLUNG]

Clicked the link to find out I was right!!

[rcaido]

Man for those people who bitch about having a bad day…SMH

I doubt this guy is ever going to get release…

[tataki]

“If you don’t tell me the answer that I want to hear, I’m going to beat you.” To avoid a beating, says Chaneya, she told her mother that her father molested her even though it wasn’t true.

Mother of the year 1997

I hope the father sues her and the state for not doing their job well to find out the truth.

[crucades]

MURICA!

[Louiscipher]

I knew by the name they were black. LOL!!! But in all seriousness, this is why alot of men, regardless of color, don’t want to get married and have a family because you got these problem-laced women out here. I can’t stand when a bitch uses the kids to try and set the father up.

My step-mother tries to pull the same shit.

[HD-Man]

The systematic destruction of the black man continues. sigh

[CHIEFxIRONLUNG]

^^ that avatar.

[Raz0r]

He probably did something illegal that he got away with, anyway. No matter the means the end was justified.

[SpaceOutNightmare]

SORRY OP COULDN’T READ IT ALL I STOPPED AT “It’s never too late to right your wrongs” AND LAUGHED FOR LIKE HALF AN HOUR THEN SCROLLED DOWN TO POST.

Okay, after finally reading the rest, shoutouts to actually doing the damn detective work but never coming to the obvious fucking conclusion.

[BEWD]

Jesus christ there needs to be a way to do more than one flag tag of a post

In any case I hope this guy is able to sue the state or something, 16 fucking years just wow

[Biolink]

“I’m 24 years old and I made this mistake when I was nine years old,” Chaneya told NBC News, “but it’s never too late to try and right your wrong. “

Smh what a shitty situation.

[jimmy1200]

He probably did something illegal that he got away with, anyway. No matter the means the end was justified.

Dude are you okay mentally? I’m actually not even joking. I guess i don’t know your posting habits enough to know if you’re just a part of the 4chan mentality wave that came through a few years back, just trolling in general, or if you seriously with all your heart believe in some of the shit you say.

If you seriously believe in some of the shit you say, i think you need some help. Are your friends of the same opinion of you, and do you say the same shit on this forum in real life? Anyways, to each their own, you just seem legit disturbed to me, or i just do not understand when you’re trolling or not.

Anyways, wow, i mean it sounds like even a public defender should have been able to get this man off especially when there is no forensic or medical evidence of that at all, AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT THEY BOTH SAID THEY SET HIM UP. lol. I wouldn’t expect any less especially in the 90s when it comes to our judicial system, and they wonder why there is so much dissent within the black community towards law officers, politicians, judges, etc…

I’m surprised the judge didn’t over turn the juries ruling due to lack of evidence. I know a young lady is saying her daddy raped her but if what she is saying and the evidence does not add up, then there has to be some objective analysis of possible collusion to falsely accuse someone of a crime to which they did not commit, and HER GOD DAMN FUCKING MOTHER IS THE NUMBER 1 PERSON TO LOOK TO.

I mean for fucks sake the mother lost custody of the child right after, then the daughter told the grandmother i made it up, then the mother signed off saying yes i told my daughter i would beat her if she didn’t say her dad raped her, and NOTHING WAS DONE. HOLY MOTHER OF GOD.

They might have both had their problems with drugs, with the mother having the more severe problem, but no way should this have went down the way it did, and he had to sit in prison and rot for something he didn’t do, his daughter said he didn’t do, and the daughters mother said she didn’t do, but she actually threatened her to say she did because she was on a 3 day drug binge and had no idea where her mind was at.

This is why i don’t surround myself with morons or unstable people who are willing to put you at risk because they’re having a moment. I’d rather be alone forever then in jail over crazy pussy.

This reminds me of the patrice oneal story i listened to yesterday when he revealed on air that he had once been falsely accused of rape, and got pwned. The gist of the story for those who don’t have a spare 30 minutes. Patrice and his boys were 16 and going to go hook up with some girls, ran into some other girls, went back to his place to hang out, the white girl starts sucking and fucking 4 dudes, is perfectly fine with it and they continue to chill, they slip and tell a friends cousin who goes to school with the girl, he goes to the girl and says suck my dick or I’m gonna tell the whole school what you did 2 weeks ago in some part of boston, she sucks his dick then runs and cries rape to her brother in class, they all go to the office, she then says she was also raped 2 weeks prior. WOW

It goes to trial, the boy who told her to suck his dick or he was gonna tell the school she is a whore, GOT OFF, patrice and his friends got the rape charged drop but got charged with statutory rape because she was 15. The judge is also a lenient judge, but just before their case was blasted in the paper for being too lenient, so patrice feels that is why instead of probation he was sentence to 2 months in prison. NOT JAIL, BIG BOY PRISON. the judge actually pushed it out from february to the summer as an added punishment.

But more then that he tells his stories from prison and he was like after 3 weeks you change, he became a different man, and at one point had to defend his manhood from a dude that would knock dudes out and rape them, especially new guys, but since patrice is 6’4 and huge he was able to defend himself, and one of the og’s that was looking out for him actually handed him a prison shank and patrice had to run up on dude and threaten to fuck him up and make him apologize in front of everyone just so niggas know he aint no punk.

THIS IS WHEN HE WAS 16, and falsely accused of rape because a girl decided she was raped after realizing she was just a little whore. My point being is that this father will never be the same again, and has not been for a while. We really have to take sending people to prison much more serious then our system does, because people don’t come out the same, and yeah when people found out that he was sentenced for raping his daughter, I’m sure he had a lot of explaining to do on the yard, and or got fucked up many a times over it.

**The Greatest Story Ever Told On Radio **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CybGo6hALVo

[vansaykeo]

In an interview with NBC News, Phillips strongly defended the integrity of the original prosecution, saying he trained his prosecutors “that truth is the most important thing,” and stressing that a jury had found Kelly guilty.

The judge and prosecutor can’t admit when they fuck up. If they admit that they were wrong in prosecuting this man and release him they would have a big lawsuit against them and the state.

[BEWD]

Man, you guys love reading up on propaganda. I am disappointed.

How exactly is this propaganda Victor? You can find this story on several outlets if you don’t trust the original source

[crucades]

Anyways, wow, i mean it sounds like even a public defender should have been able to get this man off especially when there is no forensic or medical evidence of that at all, AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT THEY BOTH SAID THEY SET HIM UP.

Rape prosecution is the lowest of all violent crimes. Most defendants are cleared of suspicion in court as its the hardest to prove. This case seems straight up racism.

The police would have first looked at the parents, both crack addicts, and made a judgement call. The father also dealing with the fact his daughter was accusing him of rape in the first place, so again his interrogation with the police wouldn’td have been all that great.

Seems like the lawyers dropped the ball big time, and am gonna hazzard a guess and say under these circumstances that the police didnht bother their ass with a full on investigation. And being the good ole USA the guy probably got raped in prison or some other shit he will have a hard time looking at himself in the mirror for.

He should take the state for millions.

[Exodus_1]

Jimmy1200 is top 3 current era posters. Free.

[RedVega]

I think one of the more interesting thing is that a tremendous amount of women lie about getting raped (especially now).