N.B. judge overturns conviction of grandfather accused of sexual interference
FREDERICTON — A man who was shunned by his community and reviled by family when he was wrongly branded a sex offender has been acquitted of sexually assaulting his step-granddaughter after the girl admitted she was forced to make up the story by her grandmother.
The man, who is referred to only as D.A.M. in court documents, outlined the devastating toll the wrongful conviction has had on his life since the little girl falsely accused him of touching her sexually when she was 12 years old.
“Not only was I convicted and incarcerated for something I did not do, but I have had to live with being despised by members of my family and the community,” he said in a document presented in the New Brunswick Court of Appeal.
“My son’s former spouse has kept and continues to keep their three children away from me because his ex-wife now believes that I am a sex offender.”