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Jury awards $16 Million for False Sex Abuse Claim

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A federal jury awarded a man who was acquitted of molesting his adopted daughter $16 million on Friday. The verdict came in Theodore W. White Jr.’s lawsuit against his ex-wife and a Lee's Summit police officer.

White, who now lives in Aurora, spent more than five years in prison after a jury convicted him in 1999 of molesting the girl between 1995 and 1998. He got a new trial on appeal in 2002 after prosecutors revealed the lead detective, Richard McKinley, was dating White’s wife during the investigation. The ex-wife, Tina, is the mother of the girl and is now married to McKinley.

White’s second trial ended with a hung jury, which was split 11-1 in White’s favor. His acquittal in his third trial came in February 2005, and White left jail and moved to Aurora to be near his family, who supported him and raised money for his defense.

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