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The man who was accused of raping a woman Sunday in Abbeville has been released after police say the woman admitted her accusation was false. Police say a witness came forward yesterday, telling them the alleged victim's history with Clinton Chewing and other sexual activities. When detectives questioned the false accuser, Joell Thiel, they say she broke down and admitted she was at the apartment with Chewning trying to buy drugs from him. Detectives say she then admitted to having sex with Chewning willingly but was upset because he never actually gave her the drugs. Thiell is in the Vermilion Parish Correctional Facility on a $15,000 bond.

Kelsey Long was already in fairly significant trouble. After a report of someone throwing eggs at cars and houses in Martinez early Easter morning, the 23-year-old Evans woman was reportedly stopped while driving a car on a suspended license, and with no insurance or valid vehicle registration. Allegedly with drugs in the vehicle. Then she had to be physically restrained after trying to flee. But spreading Easter cheer through vandalism and resisting arrest wasn't enough. She had to make things even worse. Much worse. Long is now charged with falsely claiming that the arresting Columbia County deputy raped her. In the 30 to 45 seconds it took to restrain her in a Martinez yard. As another officer stood by. Not even her own passenger saw anything resembling such a thing.

A TAXI driver was locked up for almost a day and had his licence suspended for several weeks after an alcoholic drug abuser claimed he had raped her. Donna Robinson launched a major police investigation after saying she had been attacked outside a Southa

Alan Gell had a history of bad behavior. By 1995, the 21-year-old North Carolinian had already been in trouble for drug offenses and car theft. But when Allen Ray Jenkins, a retired trucker, turned up dead that year with two shotgun blasts to the chest, authorities charged Gell with something far worse: first-degree murder. Gell spent the next nine years in prison - four of them on death row for the killing in Aulander, a town 120 miles east of Raleigh. There was just one problem. Gell never actually committed the crime.

Mikayla Lynn Zachman-Clark Original Article01/08/2014By MATT TROUTMANTRAVERSE CITY - A Traverse City woman faces a criminal charge after authorities said she lied about being drugged and raped by her ex-boyfriend.Mikayla Lynn Zachman-Clark, 18,...

On July 12, when he walked out of the Winnebago County Jail a free man for the first time in more than 20 years, Joseph Frey had no money, no identification and nowhere to live. Frey, 54, was wrongfully convicted in 1994 of sexual assault and kidnapping, crimes for which he was serving a 102-year sentence. When he was released earlier this month, Frey had less than a week's supply of the dozen or so drugs he needs for a degenerative bone disease, blood clots and other health problems. He can't afford more medication nor the required follow-up visits to the doctor. "I'm transient," said Frey, who is staying at the homeless shelter at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison. "I have no health coverage. Nothing."

A woman who repeatedly accused her ex-boyfriends of raping her was today jailed after escaping justice for nearly a decade. Leanne Black made false rape claims against five different men over a period of eight years, but escaped justice until now. The 32-year-old used the rape allegations to get revenge on her partners after arguing with them - but a judge accused her of harming genuine rape victims with her lies. Black was sentenced to two years in prison at Newport Crown Court after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice. In one case, she told police that her ex had drugged and raped her, and in another she claimed that a boyfriend had kidnapped her before violently abusing her. The innocent men could have faced up to five years in jail if they had been found guilty of raping her.

Kirsty Debanks Original Article10/21/2013By Ben Wilkinson A woman jailed for making a false rape claim says the lie cost her "everyone's respect".Kirsty Debanks said she was in a "bad place" when she made the allegation against her boyfriend an...