Horrible Miscarriage Of Justice: Man Jailed For 20 Years On False Sexual Abuse Charges

Clyde Ray Spencer spent 20 years of his life in jail for a crime he did not commit -- the sexual abuse of his children that his ex-wife claimed was going on. He was just awarded $9 million by a jury in federal court in Tacoma, Washington, for the disgusting denial of his civil rights by police officers and prosecutors there.

Via Lenona, Robert Franklin, Esq., posts at NationalParentsOrganization:

Davidson, eager to please his paramour, went right to work. He put Detective Sharon Krause on the case and soon she had the children on videotape claiming their dad was a brutal serial pedophile. Faced with that evidence, Spencer entered an "Alford" plea meaning that he maintained his innocence but admitted that a jury could find him guilty. He was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus 14 years and began serving his time.

But all was not right with the case against him. Eventually he found a lawyer who was willing to do the hard work of overturning a plea entered into by a man considered the worst sort of monster. What that investigation turned up was the entire fabrication of a case by police and prosecutors. Here are a few of the findings of the civil jury in federal court this past February.

•Spencer's wife, who called policed about the abuse claims, was secretly having an affair with Sgt. Davidson, who led the investigation of Spencer. This was not revealed until after Spencer was in prison.

•Spencer's natural children Matt Spencer and Katie Tetz testified that they were never abused.

•The stepson maintained that we was abused. However, he has a long criminal record for crimes including burglary and forgery. The authorities reduced his sentence in exchange for his testimony against Spencer.

•The detectives concealed medical exams showing that Spencer's son and daughter were not abused.

•Attorney Zellner charged that Det. Krause was motivated by advancing her career, and that after she started working in the field the conviction rate in child abuse cases rose by 800%. She had been a hotel clerk and met police officers who came to the hotel bar. She joined the Clark County Sheriff's Department and became a detective investigating child sex abuse, even though she had no training in the subject area.