A WOMAN who falsely cried rape for a second time has been spared jail because a judge does not want her child to be born in prison.
Heavily pregnant Gemma Scoones, 27, stood before Judge Michael Taylor in the dock at Durham Crown Court yesterday to be sentenced for perverting the course of justice.
Last year, Scoones was given a 12-month jail sentence by the court after she admitted a similar offence involving a false rape allegation against her estranged husband, Anthony Scoones, following the break-up of their relationship.
Mr Scoones, who later spoke about his ordeal to The Northern Echo, was arrested, held in a police cell for a day and was only released after his former wife told officers that she had made the story up.
For the latest offence, she was given another 12-month sentence, but this was suspended for two years and was accompanied by a supervision order involving the Probation Service.
Judge Taylor told her that it was a serious offence that deserved an automatic custodial sentence and said that she had made an “atrocious allegation”.
“But what saves you from an immediate sentence is that I see you are heavily pregnant and it would not be fair on your child to be born in prison,” he said.
He said it was fortunate that no one had been arrested in this latest case.
Lesley Kirkup, prosecuting, gave a brief outline of events, saying that on April 18 Scoones reported to an ambulance crew that she had been raped.
She was taken to hospital where she repeated the allegations, despite being challenged about her account.
Ms Kirkup said that medical examinations were carried out at the hospital and that police searched her home.
However, the officers were unable to find the string she had maintained was used in the attack.
When officers asked her again about her story she told them she had made it up.
“At the end of the day she has accepted she was never raped,” Ms Kirkup told the court.
Scoones, of Hardwick Street, Horden, near Peterlee, east Durham, but formerly of Newton Aycliffe, had admitted the offence at a previous hearing.
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Another miraculous pregnancy while accused of a serious crime and facing jail time.
You just gotta know these women SERIOUSLY love children, and NEVER perceive them as objects, like the men the falsely accuse.
Best thing that could happen is prison, baby born in prison, baby put into care for adoption, woman sterilised, serves remainder of sentence.
Sadly China has the balls to do this sort of thing, we don't.
Why didn't they stop her the first time??? It is a very serious perversion of a law enforcement community that enables women to make Rape Accusations against innocent people. Gender feminist quack scholars are the force behing American law enforcements approach to false rape accusations. The current approach of "Not charging" false rape accusers, and hiding from the public the new "culture of false rape accusations" that has developed gives the Gender / Raunch community a certain degree of "Gender Klan Rape hysteria power", But immediatte power grabs have a long term price to pay, and pride always, always, always.... comes before the fall.
"Why didn't they stop her the first time???"
Because the deterrent (2 year prison here in the UK) isn't sufficient.
10 years, same as for rape, and life on sex offenders register, same as for rape, will be more like it.
Anonymous - "Gender feminist quack scholars are the force behing American law enforcements approach to false rape accusations. The current approach of "Not charging" false rape accusers, and hiding from the public..."
Three questions you need to start asking yourself before you make this boiler-plate post of your's
First - is an American case? If it's not, as is the case in this story, then it makes no sense to discuss American LE and/or courts.
Second - Did the false accuser get charged? If, as in this case, she did, then statements about "Not charging" are, again, out of place.
Third - Did LE make any effort to hide the FRA from public knowledge? If, as once again in this case, they did not, then statements about "hiding (an FRA) from the public" are [do I really have to say it again?] also out of place.
I know you mean well, but would it kill you to at least try to tailor your pots to fit with the story?
Is this post another repeat?
"Three questions you need to start asking yourself before you make this boiler-plate post of your's"
If I may suggest a fourth question, "Did I post the same thing over 9000 times already?"
"A WOMAN who falsely cried rape for a second time has been spared jail because a judge does not want her child to be born in prison"
Great save by judge Mangina Taylor. Can't have women punished for committing crimes now,that would send the message that everyone is equal before the law. Don't want to get in the way of that surefire pregnancy defense.
This pregnancy thing is in danger of becoming an all-purpose get out of jail free card. Murder somebody? No problem! A teaspoon of semen and you can work the justice system like a cheap marionette!
Too bad it doesn't work that way for the ones who produce the semen.
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