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Woman exonerated after spending over 15 years in prison worried God wasn't with her

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An Ohio woman who was wrongfully charged and convicted in 1994 of physical and sexual abuse against children in a Head Start program and then spent more than 15 years in prison before she was exonerated said she sometimes felt God wasn't with her as she waited for her redemption.

Had it not been for her faith, however, Nancy Smith, 66, a former Head Start bus driver from Lorraine, Ohio, who had been sentenced to spend 30 to 90 years in prison for a crime she did not commit, told WYSOthat she would have given up hope of going home.

“You can never lose faith. You can never lose hope,” she said.

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