Virginia Lawyers Weekly

ROANOKE—A convicted child molester whose accuser has recanted her testimony is asking Governor Tim Kaine for clemency.
Aleck Carpitcher filed a clemency petition Tuesday.

In 1999, a Roanoke County jury convicted Carpitcher of five sex crimes after his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter testified that he fondled her. Carpitcher was sentenced to 38 years in prison.

The girl later said she made up the allegations because she was angry at Carpitcher for spending so much time with her mother. However, the Virginia Supreme Court last year declined to exonerate Carpitcher, saying he failed to prove that the girl’s latest story was the truth.

The governor’s office doesn’t comment on clemency petitions.

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