Ohio co-workers freed from prison after wrongly convicted of child abuse

Two Ohio Head Start preschool workers are finally free, 15 years after they were wrongly convicted of sexually abusing young children.

On Wednesday a judge in northeast Ohio tossed out the convictions of 52-year-old former Head Start bus driver Nancy Smith and 56-year-old Joseph Allen.

The Lorain County Common Pleas Court Judge says there was not enough evidence presented at the trial to convict the two.

Smith was accused of driving 4 and 5 year-old children to Allen’s home where he allegedly abused them.

“I thought i’d go to trial and be proven innocent and i’ll go home from there that’s exactly what I thought would happen,” said Smith.

Both Smith and Allen were in jail since 1994 but were freed on bond last year when the judge agreed to review the case.