While Debra Grant didn't falsely accuse someone, she has been charged with lying about issues dealing with a sexual assault allegation. As the investigation is continuing, I would guess that she lied about the whereabouts of the person that is being investigated. Contrary to the belief of some (how are things, Futrelle?), this kind of action is offensive to us.
When someone lies about the whereabouts of a suspect in a sexual assault, it not only damages the credibility of the person who lied, and the presumption of innocence that the accused is supposed to be afforded, it does no service to anyone who has actually been the victim of a sexual assault or a rape.
Here is the news story:
The Ulster County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Tillson woman on charges related to providing a false deposition.
On November 2, police interviewed Debra Grant, 28, of 762 Springtown Road relating to an ongoing sexual assault investigation alleged to have occurred in the early morning hours of November 1.
Grant initially provided a supporting deposition indicating a person central to the case was at a party at her house on Halloween. But, police said additional investigation yielded evidence that Grant had intentionally falsified her deposition.
She was charged with the felonies of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree and falsifying business records in the first degree, as well as the misdemeanor of making an apparently false sworn statement in the second degree.
She was issued an appearance ticket returnable to Kingston City Court.
The original sexual assault investigation continues.
Link: http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2011/November/03/Grant_arr-03Nov11.html
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This also happened in my hometown a couple of years ago. In the words of our local elected public prosecutor:
"We need to get her the help that she needs." "False rape is an extremely rare occurrence in our society."
No charges were ever filed. Now do you see how chivalrous the legal system is?
The woman who claims Justin Bieber fathered her child reportedly tried to pin the pregnancy on a different man last year.
Mariah Yeater, 20, accused her ex-boyfriend John Terranova of being the daddy during a violent altercation that led to her arrest, TMZ reported Friday.
Yeater dated Terranova toward the end of high school and dropped the baby bombshell during a visit to his Las Vegas home last December, his grandmother Frances Lippe told TMZ.
Terranova insisted he wasn’ t the father, Lippe said, and Yeater allegedly shattered a car window in a fit of rage.
The blond, blue-eyed future babymama originally split the scene but later reignited the fight when she returned to work out a payment plan for the busted window, according to a police report obtained by TMZ.
“ Mariah slapped [ Terranova\] 3 separate times with her open right hand,” wrote an officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police.
Yeater was booked for battery and claimed she was choked during the fight.
Lippe said they never heard from her again after the arrest.
On July 6, Yeater gave birth to a son in San Diego.
She filed a paternity suit Monday claiming Bieber is her son’ s father because “ there were no other possible men that I had sex with that could be the father of my baby.”
Bieber, 17, quickly denied the claim.
“ I never met the woman,” the Canadian crooner said during a Friday appearance on NBC’ s “ Today” show.
“ I’ d just like to say, basically, that none of those allegations are true,” he said before performing live in Manhattan. “ I know I’ m going to be a target, but I’ m never going to be a victim.”
Yeater claims she had unprotected sex with the pint-sized pop icon while perched on a bathroom shelf backstage at an October 2010 concert in Los Angeles.
Bieber, who was 16 at the time, allegedly told her he was a virgin, Yeater said in a sworn statement obtained by Star magazine.
“ The sexual intercourse itself was brief, lasting only approximately 30 seconds,” she said in the statement.
Afterward, Bieber was “ clearly embarrassed” about his performance and “ blew me off,” she said.
Yeater is asking a judge for a paternity test and child support.
A hearing is scheduled for Dec. 15.
If Yeater proves her claim, she could face investigation for having sex with a minor, a police source told The Associated Press.
Hopefully the focus of an upcoming article:
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/child-sex-charges-cover-rock-penn-st-14891010#.Traut1YepvM
It wasn't Bieber, it was CAIN. Those backstage shelves are DIMLY lit. Poor girl couldn't SEE and got confused.
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