Dad loses appeal in conviction of molesting his 3 daughters (Greene County, Missouri)

Thank goodness this lying freak of a father, LEONARD CANNAFAX, has lost his appeal. I wonder if there was a mother in this home...No evidence of it, as far as I can tell.

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Father loses appeal in conviction of molesting his 3 daughters

He claimed he molested his daughters in order to teach them about love and sex, not for personal gratification

July 28th, 2011 by Pamela Wallace

In 2009 Missouri father, Leonard Cannafax, was convicted on six counts of child molestation involving his three young daughters.

The charges were of fondling two of his daughters with his hand and raping and molesting the third child on multiple occasions.

According to court records, Cannafax told authorities he had committed the sex acts not for his own enjoyment, but to educate his daughters about love and sex.

Cannafax appealed the ruling claiming although he touched the genitals of his eldest two daughters, he denied he actually penetrated either of them. He further stated that if he could feel them getting wet, he “pulled [his] finger out of there.”

He also argued that he couldn’t be charged with statutory sodomy of his eldest daughter because the fondling occurred prior to August 28, 2000, when penetration had to be proven in order to make molestation an act of “deviant sexual intercourse.” However, in its review of the case, the appellate court found enough evidence to believe that Cannafax was abusing his daughter past August 2000 and had likely penetrated her in so doing.

Cannafax also argued that his oldest daughter’s testimony that he touched her “near where she went pee” was not enough to prove he touched her vagina and that he shouldn’t be placed under lifetime supervision following his eventual release from prison because his raping of his youngest daughter (touching her with his penis in her “pee pee” and “poo poo” area, according to court records) occurred prior to a 2006 law requiring such sex offenders to be monitored until their deaths.

The molestation occurred when the girls ranged in ages from approximately 6 years old to 11 years old. One of the girls to told a school official which launched the investigation.

Cannafax freely spoke with investigators at the time, telling them he was relieved that he had not gotten any of his daughters pregnant.

Last week, according to the Riverfront Times, the Missouri Court of Appeals upheld a Greene County Circuit Court’s 2009 conviction.

Cannafax was originally sentenced to concurrent terms of 25 years’ imprisonment on each count, which he is currently serving.