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Since 2021, Ronda Payne has been buying Christmas gifts, wrapping them and setting them under the tree for her son Chris to unwrap.

She will continue doing so, she said during an interview with the Post-Tribune from her home in St. John, until Chris, who will turn 34 on Dec. 17, is released from the custody of a detention center in Japan, held for allegations of sexual assault that he claims he didn’t commit.

The evidence proving Chris’ innocence is there, his supporters say, from the pings on his cellphone that show he was in another part of the country to the DNA evidence that does not show a match, and even a text exchange between Chris and his then-girlfriend shortly after the alleged assault, which took place not far from where he lived

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