Friday, March 11, 2011

William McCaffery sues over 4 years in prison, for a crime he didn't commit

The innocent man who was wrongly imprisoned for nearly four years because of false rape charges is now suing the city for his ordeal.


William McCaffery is seeking $20 million in compensatory damages, as well as another $10 million for what he calls "conduct...so outrageous as to exceed the bounds of all common and civilized decency."

McCaffrey was sentenced in 2006 after Biurny Peguero Gonzalez testified that he and two other men raped her at knife point in a van parked in Upper Manhattan in September 2005. She later recanted that statement, and admitted she made the whole thing up in order to cover for a fight with some of her female friends. [To see all the posts where this case was discussed on this blog, go here: http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/search?q=Peguero]

McCaffrey says in his suit that cops knew he didn't inflict bite wounds on Peguero, which was used as evidence against him at trial: "Aware that this fact would provide an alternate explanation for the cause of Ms. Peguero's injuries, defendants...told the young women that the true nature of their fight was insignificant and instructed them not to mention it," says the suit, which names specific police and prosecutors.

McCaffrey also says prosecutors sat on Peguero's recantation of her false allegations for two months after learning she had confessed to her priest, and "continued to oppose McCaffrey's release" despite defense DNA testing that proved one of Peguero's friends had bitten her. Peguero was sentenced last year to up to three years in prison after pleading guilty to perjury for framing McCaffrey.

Link: http://gothamist.com/2011/03/10/rape_liar_victim_suing_the_city_for.php

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Disgusting. This victim should get AT LEAST thirty million, and that predatory little crotch should get life in prison.

She won't, but that's what would happen if our legal system was anything but a den of thieves.

randian said...

As usual, the prosecutor gets off scott free.

Arod99k said...

Prosecutorial Misconduct at its core.

Hope he gets the 30 million.

Maybe this will bring change to the legal system, but I doubt it, its tax payer money anyway.

Prosecutors and cops need to be jailed, this BS would end quickly.

AfOR said...

OT

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365174/It-rape-I-13-Roman-Polanski-victim-speaks-34-year-anniversary-sexual-assault.html

Samantha Geimer, now in her mid-40s, admitted that the justice system's decades-long pursuit of the director has harmed her more than the he ever did.

Anonymous said...

The "first perversion" that has festered many other perversions after that...Is in fact when American law enforcement started to engage in protocol perversions, manufactured statistics, and semantics games to feed the "Empowerment" of the American gender-Raunch community.
Break the "Fisrt perversion Alliance", and the perversions go away. But gender-Raunch know this, and will fight tooth and nail to keep their "perversion Alliance" as deep and secretive from the public as possible.

Anonymous said...

If women and girls were held "Equally accountable under the law, like men are"..would the world collapse???
No, but the "American gender-Raunch Empowerment" community would lose their "Empowerment misinformation" that American law enforcement has been feeding them.

slwerner said...

"William McCaffery sues over 4 years in prison, for a crime he didn't commit"

It's a bout Damned time!

This one has had "law suit" written all over it from the time we first started reading about it (here, at the FRS).

I noticed that the names of the defendants - the detectives and the prosecutors - aren't disclosed. Since the suit has been filed, it would seem that their names should be a matter of public record.

Perhaps we can post them here, sort of an impromptu "wall of shame" so that they can be made an example of publicly, and specifically?

Anonymous said...

Shame the journalists who are enabling the state, also.

They are another branch of the false rape tree.