but is this a case of fighting a battle she doesn't want to be involved in?
That's a good question and thanks for the compliment.
The whole thing was set up by her own aunt, the girl who accused her is her older step brother's partner (he's inside for drug dealing, she's on a conditional discharge herself after a plea bargain) and is living in the aunts big home. Her own nan has taken the horrible aunt's side. They have always put the feckless step brother above my daughter and still do.
There's been a hate campaign I've already spoken about against my daughter, this cr*p is just another part of that.
She has just had to move out of her childhood home because it's the next door semi to her nans.
Despite all of that and a lot more, she is still mourning the loss of her maternal family, and is heartbroken about it.
She definitely doesn't want to be involved in this, but she wants to be listened to by somebody else other than me and her partner for a change.
The district judge didn't listen to her, her family on her mothers side never have, she was the only one warning them about what was going on with the step brother and partner.
I'd happily do violence to these people and go to jail myself, but she needs me too much, so we are trying to do things the right way.
From what she tells me I'm as near certain as I can be that the CCTV will exonerate her and prove that the witnesses were all lying.
So I'm thinking that if I bring the police's attention to this, even if they do nothing now, they will when she wins her appeal.
Hopefully they will get involved at this stage though, because it wouldn't take much digging for this scheme to be exposed.
That would then hopefully save my daughter the ordeal of the appeal process.
