Louisiana man accused of raping a woman then getting custody of their child says 'it's a lie'
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Louisiana dad John Barnes says he didn't rape Crysta Abelseth, with whom he shares a 15-year-old daughter, and that Judge Jeffrey Cache was justified in giving him custody.
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"It's a lie. She was in a bar with a fake ID, telling everyone she was a college student," said Barnes, who owns tech company Gumbeaux Digital Branding. "I had no idea she was 16, and I didn’t rape her. That is absolutely, unequivocally false."
Five years after the sexual encounter that he said was consensual, he learned from Abelseth, now 32, that he might have fathered a child. A DNA test confirmed paternity, and he was awarded joint custody.
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