I guess I must have missed the part where the uncle was charged with a crime, actual evidence was presented against him, and on the basis of that evidence he was convicted. After cases such as McMartin Preschool fiasco in California and the Amirault nightmare in Massachusetts, I thought we all now understood that many kids are willing and able to lie under oath about being molested, especially if they are coached to do so.
If Cunningham killed the uncle because she had incontrovertible evidence that he was guilty of child rape, she deserves some sympathy and a reduced sentence. If instead she killed him because she believed a phony story that the kids made up to try to hurt their uncle...
More info here http://ap.oakridger.com/stories/state/tn/20051219/3504697.shtml
Mother sentenced in shooting death of daughter's alleged rapist
The Associated Press
MARYVILLE, Tenn. — A mother convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a man she said raped her young daughter was sentenced to four years in prison Monday.
Kimberly Cunningham has been acquitted twice already for a first-degree charge in April and then a second-degree charge in October for the shooting of Coy Hundley, her daughter's uncle.
Cunningham shot Hundley eight times outside the Alcoa lock company where he worked in October 2003.
"I was not a normal person that day," Cunningham told the court last October.
Cunningham quoted her daughter, then 14, as saying Hundley raped her twice when she was younger. She said Hundley laughed when she asked him about the allegations and asked what she was going to do about it.
Her lawyer, Bruce Poston, said he would try to appeal the sentence for probation or split confinement.
Cunningham will be available for parole after 30 percent of her sentence has been served.
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