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No mention of motivation. I don't understand why anyone would choose a random person to just utterly destroy like that. Like even though he's been found innocent can you imagine the horror of being told you were accused of that?
Anyone read more elsewhere?
Women can be surprisingly vindictive. I've been fired from a job before because a woman there did not like me and just made up a sexual assault allegation against me. I never even touched her and I definitely did not have any intentions towards her but that did not matter because the company had a zero tolerance policy. They did not even care to hear my side of the story, they just fired me on the spot without recourse.
To this day I have no idea what I did that might have pissed her off so much she'd want to destroy my livelihood. She was married AND pregnant and as much of a dirtbag as I might be, I would never even dream of hitting on someone like that.
Nearly two years in prison for falsely accusing someone but if that innocent man got a sentence it would have been 20 plus years...
Yes. It should have been at least a few more years in prison and a felony rap too.
If the person she accused was convicted she would have ruined his life. Ending up on a sex offenders registry would have basically cut him off from social media and the internet. He wouldn't have been able to get many jobs and he wouldn't be allowed to live anywhere close to children. That could mean SO much. I don't even think you're allow3d to have a smart phone in some cases from what I've read. He would have gone to jail and then after he got out he would ha e been cut off from the modern world.
And if a non-innocent rape the man would get community service.
Ugh, not nearly enough of a sentence.
How the hell do you get from "I saw his truck" to "he tried to kidnap and rape me"
Not long enough. That's not what he would have gotten.
This kind of stuff boils my blood. Some asshole drags innocent people through some horrible shit for NO REASON.
It would take years to shake that out of you after it was over and done with. Also imagine what family, friends, employers, would say and think or do because of accusations like this.
This is so fucked up.
Could not agree more. Not only that, but the kind of damage this does to people with legitimate claims is hard to calculate...
I think she should have gotten what he would have gotten for punishment.
The court press release said she was sentenced to "45 days to 23 months" and the linked news article garbled that to "23 months and 45 days" which they somehow added up to "nearly 2 years". No idea why the sentence itself has such a wide range.
Usually ours to account for things like good behavior/parole I think? I always assumed they used that upper range as the stick part of the incentive to not fuck up again once you’re out of prison since getting sent back would make you serve the longest possible sentence.
could be, or more likely in my mind it's just an ai fuckup.
Those are some dead/crazy eyes...yikes
She should get what he would have gotten had he been convicted of her lie.
I'm glad she got charged at all, but what a weak sentence.
23 months and 45 days? Is there any reasoning behind this depiction of the length of the hail time or is this just an error?
The cited source says she was sentenced to "45 days to 23 months" so error