An Army veteran who suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder recently received a much lower sentence for sex crimes because of his condition.

The judge, who handed down the sentence, admitted that he was giving U.S. Army Veteran, Joseph Keller a huge break, by agreeing to a sentence of five years in prison. Keller had been charged with possessing child pornography and a home-made explosive device.

In April, Keller was charged with possession and distribution of child pornography, after investigators found child pornography images on his computer. A search of his home also yielded an explosive device. Keller entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors under which he would agree to plead guilty to all the charges in exchange for a five-year sentence. This happens to be the mandatory minimum sentence for child porn charges.

The judge was not obligated to accept the plea deal. However, he has agreed to accept the deal, because he believes that the kind of charges that Keller faced were different from the charges typically facing people charged with child porn. In Keller's case, the accumulation of child pornography was not massive, in contrast to many defendants who face these charges after amassing large collections of sexually explicit images of children. Also, in Keller's case, the images were downloaded on his computer when he lived with his father for a brief period of time. The images were not found on his computer, after he moved to live with an aunt in Florida.

Keller joined the Army after high school, and says that he began to suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after he completed two years of combat duty in Iraq. He also suffers from a serious alcohol problem, and this is believed to have clouded his judgment.

A 24-year-old woman, whose father was incarcerated because of false accusations of rape made by her, is now launching a bid to get her father released from prison.

Chaneya Kelly has been speaking to the media, to clear the air surrounding her father Darryl Kelly who still remains incarcerated on charges of rape. Back when she was nine years old, her mother who struggled with prostitution, instigated her to make accusations of rape against her father. Initially, Chaneya resisted, but ultimately she gave in to parental pressure, and claimed that her father had touched her inappropriately. The police were called in, and Chaneya was used - as children very often are in parental conflict situations- as a pawn to get revenge on the other parent.

Darryl Kelly insisted on his innocence, but his claims fell on deaf ears, and he was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison. Soon after, Chaneya had a change of heart, and confided in her grandmother that she had lied about her father inappropriately touching her. Her mother also had a change of heart and signed an affidavit, stating that she had forced her daughter to make accusations of rape, under threat of beating her. She blamed her drug habit for her behavior in encouraging her daughter to make such devastating accusations.

However, the judge concluded that their statements seemed forced, and the conviction was not overturned. Darryl Kelly continues to remain incarcerated based on his daughter’s false accusations.

In cases that involve sex crimes against minors, very often, California sex crimes defense lawyers find that children are coerced or pressured into making false statements or accusations, or may sometimes be pressured into believing that they were inappropriately touched or handled, leading them to make false accusations.