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NC - You can't change the past. You just have to live with it

View the article here 04/27/2009 By Sherry Youngquist Larry Murphy said he was shocked when a jury convicted him in April 1989 of sexually abusing his daughter. He still struggles to understand his daughter Julie, who was 10 when she made the accusation. "We were having a lot of arguments then," he said. "As to why she did it ? her description was too graphic for her not to have been abused." He believes, as his daughter would say years later, that she was targeting him for something that had happened months earlier, when she was living with her mother and her mother's boyfriend in Iowa -- before Murphy won a custody battle and took Julie and her sister, Stephanie, then 7, back to Yadkin County. The case rested solely on Julie's words...continue to full post

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