PORTSMOUTH - Police arrested a Strafford woman Friday on charges she told police she had been raped when she had not.
Corey Krongard, 22, with a last known address of 139 Ridge Farm Road, reported to police that she was sexually assaulted early the morning of June 4 by a man whose name police declined to release.
Police said Krongard first told them she was assaulted in the bathroom of The Page Restaurant and Bar and then later said the incident occurred at the Hanover Street parking garage. The charges allege the entire story was fabricated.
Krongard is charged with two counts of false reports to law enforcement, the first alleging she lied about the rape and the second that she told police her name was “Lindsay Conrad” during their investigation.
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Good! No punishment is too harsh for this criminal.
” Krongard is charged with two counts of false reports to law enforcement, the first alleging she lied about the rape and the second that she told police her name was “Lindsay Conrad” during their investigation.”
What I’d like to comment about is how the false reporting of a rape is lumped in with such things as providing a false identity, and how this ends up effecting the choice of police and prosecutors in deciding to (usually) not pursue the case any further.
In part, the Colorado statute, 18-8-111, reads:
False reporting to authorities.
(1) A person commits false reporting to authorities, if:
(b) He makes a report or knowingly causes the transmission of a report to law enforcement authorities of a crime or other incident within their official concern when he knows that it did not occur
(d) He or she knowingly provides false identifying information to law enforcement authorities.
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So, as far as charging goes, a person who makes a false report of being raped, leading to a manhunt, the arrest of one or more innocent persons, etc., etc., is no worse than someone who gets pulled over for a moving vehicle violation, and gives a false identity.
And, here in Colorado, with a substantial population of “non-citizen residents”, providing false identities has become routine. For prosecutors to try to deal with each and every case of someone providing a false identity would mean that they would have to divert considerable time and attention away from more serious matters to address each case. It would simply over-load the already “stretched” system in most larger jurisdictions.
So, while the likelihood of some white-knighting in wishing to spare a “troubled young woman” additional trouble, expense, and embarrassment cannot be ruled out; there does exist a more practical matter of a lack of resources to pursue misdemeanor charges.
Of course, I still maintain that false rape accusers (and those who falsely accuse of any felony crime) NEED to be charged so that the offense will be on their record. And [pulling out my soapbox again] better still, we need to enact laws which recognize that falsely reporting a rape (or other serious felony) is far worse than giving police a false identity, and view doing so as a felony itself. Plus, those laws need to formally recognize that the primary victims of such crimes are those who are either directly or indirectly implicated in those reports of non-existent crimes, and should be applicable even in instance wherein the false report was not made to authorities. The statute needs to be: Falsely Implicating Persons of Felonious Crimes, instead of Falsely Reporting To Authorities
Turns out that Corey Krongard is no stranger to making false reports:
”A 22-year-old New Hampshire woman was accused of fabricating a story of robbery and assault to explain her ringing a family’s doorbell at 4 a.m. Tuesday. Police said Corey L. Krongard of Strafford told police she had been assaulted and robbed when an Apawamis Avenue family called 911 …”
Perhaps this is why she gave a false identity when making the false rape report?
Also, the article in the Union Leader is open for comments. There are a few good ones already posted, which echo some of the “themes” we have often discussed here at FRS. Still, it might be a good idea for us to start seeking a wider audience by taking our message to the individual news sites, and referring interested readers back to the FRS.
The story above comes from here:
http://www.newhampshire.com/article/20110805/NEWS03/110809937
Law enforcement refused to charge my false rape accuser, and i was the second guy she falsely accused of raping her that year.
I believe she even got a little chunk of "victim funds" from the local rape crisis center for her false rape accusation.
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