Compelling explanations

• Cheveon Ford, 21, was arrested in Pensacola, in July and charged with making false 911 calls. According to authorities, Ford's only explanation was that he had no more minutes on his phone and knew that 911 calls were free. • In Rochester, N.Y., in June, Eric Kennedy, 38, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for molesting an underage girl over a three-year period, which he partly attributed to his poor eyesight, in that at times he might have mistaken the girl for her mother, with whom he was living. ¦