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Rape Victim Asks for Forgiveness

NC woman who named wrong attacker bonds with innocent man

By Wesley Oliver, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 7, 2009 5:19 PM CST

(Newser) – Every day for 11 years, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino prayed for her rapist to die. But the man she identified to police wasn’t her attacker. “That was unbearable,” Thompson-Cannino tells NPR. “Discovering the truth filled me with overwhelming guilt and shame for mistakenly... Read full story »

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