'Rape' dad not guilty.A MAN accused of raping his teenage chess prodigy Chess prodigies are children who play chess so well that they are able to beat Masters and even Grandmasters, often at a very young age. Chess is one of the few sports where children can compete with adults on equal ground; it is thus one of the few skills in which true child daughter is beginning to rebuild his life after he was cleared of all charges against him. A jury today found Ian Gilbert not guilty of five counts of raping Jessica Gilbert while she was still a child and six further sexual offences against other people. But after the verdict his ex-wife and Jessica's mother, Angela, said in an emotional statement released by Surrey Police Surrey Police is the Home Office police force of the county of Surrey in the south of England The force is lead by Chief Constable Bob Quick and has its headquarters at Mount Browne, Guildford, Surrey. : "We do not believe that justice has been served." Her daughter died, aged 19, earlier this year when she fell from an eighth-floor hotel room window in the Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. . The four-man, six-woman jury at Guildford Crown Court took 15 hours to reach the unanimous verdict. |
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