A woman who lied this summer about being raped by two men behind a bookstore at a busy shopping center pleaded no contest on Monday, Dec. 5, to a charge of initiating a false police report.
Danielle Elizabeth Hayes, 35, of Gresham must serve two years of probation, perform 150 hours of community service, pay $3,000 in restitution to the Gresham Police Department for police overtime costs associated with the investigation and continue with her mental health treatment, according to the sentence imposed by Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Christopher Marshall.
Hayes also has 30 days to write letters of apology to the police department and to the citizens of Gresham
Her false rape report sparked fear throughout East Multnomah County in late July when she claimed that two men grabbed her in broad daylight as she was getting into her minivan next to Borders bookstore, pulled her dress over her head and raped her in the 600 block of Northwest 12th Street.
The distraught woman initially reported the men yanked her wedding ring off her finger during the rape and stole it.
At the time of the report, police asked for the community’s help identifying the attackers. The case was considered unique because most rapes are committed by someone the victim knows and rarely take place in a busy public place in broad daylight.
Five days later, Gresham police held a press conference to announce the woman recanted her story and confessed that she made it up in an elaborate attempt to cover-up personal indiscretions with a man she met online.
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I live in Portland that is located next to Gresham. This is good, since she is getting a little more than the usual verbal slap on the wrist, though I would prefer a far harsher sentence. Apparently she later changed her story from not knowing the alleged attackers and tried to later blame it on a specific man. If convicted by her lies that man could have gone to prison for years. Hopefully, her husband has divorced her.
I found this online:
"But then investigators said she lied to them again, which led to the second charge against her.
“Hayes changed her story and said she had really been assaulted by an acquaintance earlier that day,” Rasmussen explained.
Investigators said text messages between Hayes and the alleged suspect proved that the contact was consensual."
http://www.kgw.com/news/Woman-charged-with-lying-twice-about-Gresham-assault-127660298.html
"The distraught woman initially reported the men yanked her wedding ring off her finger during the rape and stole it."
Ah! So she lost her ring whilst engaging in her infidelity, and thought that claiming that she was raped would be a good way to explain it's loss.
Law enforcement seems to have wised-up to such tactics in recent years, but I have to wonder just how many such FRA-as-alibi's were swallowed, hook, line and sinker, by both deceived husbands/boyfriends as well as by LE.
slwerner -
"Law enforcement seems to have wised-up to such tactics in recent years"
Credit to the Gresham Police Department for investigating the matter and discovering the allegation was false.
However, I'm not sure how "wiser" law enforcement has become, for that matter, the Gresham Police Department when Chief Greg Junginger in the July press conference stated that, "It is extremely rare to have someone fabricate charges of this magnitude"
Imagine the outcry had a convicted rapist be ordered to serve community service & probation--There would certainly be an outcry against that,Cases like these just show how far we still need to go before false accusations are taken seriously.
Her punishment doesn't nearly match that of the two men she claimed raped her. Her punishment should be closer to the fate of the men (combined) had they been convicted.
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