A Washington County Detention Center inmate confessed that he faked a claim that another inmate raped him last week, Sheriff Ed Graybeal announced Thursday in a news release.
Joshua Ellis Crabtree, 21, an inmate held at the Detention Center on various misdemeanor charges since April, was charged with filing a false report, a class D felony.
Graybeal said Crabtree claimed that another inmate had raped him on Jan. 26, which prompted authorities to take him to Johnson City Medical Center where a rape kit was completed.
After investigators interviewed Crabtree, he confessed that he had fabricated the story in an attempt to be housed in a different part of the Detention Center.
Crabtree remained jailed in the Detention Center on $5,000 bond. A Sessions Court appearance was set for Friday morning.
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Now the inmates are getting into making FRA. What femi-nazi inspired idea will they demand next; calls for an ex-con affirmative action program for equal representation on the boards of publicly owned corporations?
Aharon
And how the hell is an inmate supposed to prove that he didn't rape somebody, if the accusation is that it happened five years ago (or whatever)?
Presuming guilt just plain doesn't work. And how many cases like this resulted in the false conviction of an inmate?
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