Texas Man Freed After Decades in Prison After Accuser Admits She Lied About Sexual Abuse

Texas Man Freed After Decades in Prison After Accuser Admits She Lied About Sexual Abuse


Marshall Moreno has spent more than 20 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child by exposure in Austin, Texas in 2003. Today, Moreno is a free man after his victim, his biological daughter, says the assault never occurred.

Moreno was sentenced to 36 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after his jury trial in Travis County, according to court records. The Third Court of Appeals affirmed his conviction, sealing his fate after an investigation that started after police in Austin were called to his home to investigate a complaint of domestic abuse in 1999.

According to a report in the National Registry of Exonerations, a counselor with the Children’s Advocacy Center interviewed

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