Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Three witnesses whose testimony could absolve a 14-year-old Pakistani girl facing life in prison have changed their statements. It's the latest twist in the case of Rimsha Masih, a Christian teenager who was charged more than a month ago under Pakistan's blasphemy laws for allegedly burning pages of Islam's holy book for cooking fuel. She has denied the charges. The three witnesses initially told police they saw Khalid Jadoon Chishti, a Muslim cleric, tear pages out of a copy of the Quran and put them with police evidence that led to the charges against Rimsha. But they recanted those statements on Monday at a bail hearing for the cleric, according to the imam's lawyer, Wajid Ali Gilani. A fourth witness stood by his initial statement.
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Witnesses initially said an imam framed a teen girl accused of burning Quran pages
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Now, three witnesses have recanted those statements made to police
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Based partly on those statements, police determined the teen is innocent
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She still faces charges in juvenile court
The lawyers say that no one actually saw Rimsha burning the papers, but that the neighbor went to @placeholder with the bags.