Bulletin: Gerald Barton; Nova Scotia; Finishes testifying at civil trial against RCMP and province. Conviction quashed decades later when DNA evidence cleared him. In 2008, the girl, now an adult, admitted she had lied. Her brother had sexually assaulted her and was the father of her child, she told RCMP. CBC News.

STORY: "Gerry Barton testifies he 'didn't do anything: Nova Scotia man wants apology for 1970 miscarriage of justice," published by CBC News on April 7, 2014.

GIST:  "Gerry Barton has finished testifying at his civil trial against the RCMP and provincial government in a case that wrongly burdened him with the label of a rapist for the past 40 years. "I didn't do anything. I didn't deserve to have that on me for 40 years," Barton said in Nova Scotia Supreme Court today. The Nova Scotia man testified that being wrongly convicted as a sex offender greatly damaged his life and career prospects.........When he was 19, Barton was accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl who lived near him in Digby County. He says he never stood trial and always denied guilt, but was convicted and sentenced to a year's probation in 1970.  In 2008, the girl, now an adult, admitted she had lied. Her brother had sexually assaulted her and was the father of her child, she told RCMP. Barton's conviction was quashed in 2011 when DNA evidence cleared him."

The entire story can be found at:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/gerry-barton-testifies-he-didn-t-do-anything-1.2600749

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