Woodbury jogger made false report of sexual assault, police say
The reported assault of a jogger that shocked Woodbury residents in the spring was a hoax, the Woodbury Police Department said Tuesday.
A 33-year-old woman reported April 23 that she was sexually assaulted while jogging at 5:30 a.m. on a trail by Marksgraf Lake.
But that crime never happened, according to police Cmdr. Jay Alberio.
Instead, police believe the woman made up the episode. Alberio said police are reviewing the case to see what charges against her might be appropriate.
When the woman reported the crime, she had been injured and was treated and released at Woodwinds Hospital.
She said she was assaulted from behind by a man that she was unable to see, so she gave no description to police.
She told officers it was her third time jogging on the trail. The woman has lived in the neighborhood for about two years, Alberio said, and has no record of previous crimes.
The assault in the low-crime neighborhood stunned Woodbury residents. A local karate school even began to offer self-defense classes to women frightened by the assault.
But police grew suspicious.
"Based on physical evidence and statements we gathered, we started to question the validity of the report," Alberio said. Follow-up interviews confirmed their suspicions, he said.
The crime of falsely reporting a sexual assault is fairly rare, Alberio said.
"You just investigate them as they happen. Sometimes, the information leads you down a different path," he said.
Usually, the fake charges involve someone known to the woman. Attacks and alleged attacks by strangers are more rare, he said, "especially here in Woodbury."
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Was the "Phantom Stranger" expelled from school?
Sorry - bad joke.
The protocol perversions of American law enforcement over the last 20-25 years have fostered and enabled a now "Culture of false rape accusations", which in the long run will hurt true victims.
My advice to individual law enforcement jurisdictions..."Don't take any more federal pervert dollars", and return law and order by at least giving false rape accusers a small misdemeanor which may deter her from becoming a "serial false rape accuser".
An important question; why is this "legally" authorized/allowed to happen? If a man says he is raped, are "the authorities" required to instantly believe him even if he is telling the truth? Most of them seem to instantly believe a woman when she claims to have been raped/sexually assaulted/assaulted? Why is their such differences?
Why are male victims not as easuiy believe as female victims?
maybe they're better spellers
Perhaps when they start penalizing False Rape Alegations and downgrade acquaintance rape to the misdemeanor it is, then the true victims will be safer.
He said/ she said cases should never be prosecuted. This goes especially for this new crime of "Attempted Rape". When does a sexual advance turn into an attempted rape if the advance was deterred?
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