By Mandy LockeStaff Writer
Newsobserver.com
WINSTON-SALEM — A DNA test has exonerated a man who was sent to prison for raping two girls in 1991.
Joseph Lamont Abbott will be freed after spending 14 years in prison. At a trial in Forsyth County in 1995, a jury convicted Abbott of breaking into a home before dawn and raping two young sisters, then ages 13 and 15.
The girls were home alone. Their attacker held them at knife-point and bound the girls before leaving.
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He is expected to be released today after his attorney Christine Mumma, director of the center, and the Forsyth County District Attorney's office file a motion to vacate the conviction.
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