Police: DSS uncovered offenses dating to 1970s
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008
By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer
A Newton husband and wife are facing charges in felony sex allegations that date back more than 30 years, police said.
George Michael Kennedy, 58, faces three felony counts of indecent liberties, and his wife, Donna Reinhardt Kennedy, 53, was charged with two felony counts of aiding and abetting indecent liberties.
George Kennedy was charged with sexually abusing at least three female family members, the youngest of whom was 5, said Sgt. Tracey Cline of the Newton Police Department.
The abuse started in 1977, Cline said, and continued through 2007. The authorities began investigating the couple in November after the Department of Social Services passed along a report that a relative of the Kennedys had been sexually abused as a child, said Sgt. Tracey Cline of the Newton Police Department.
Cline would not say how the girls were related to the Kennedys but said the abuse ended with each girl "once they reached puberty," Cline said.
Donna Kennedy was charged, Cline said, because she knew about the abuse and did not go to the police.
The Kennedys were being held on bond Tuesday at the Catawba County jail and are scheduled to make their first court appearance Wednesday.
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