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A 10-year-old girl asked a jury to believe her claim that she had been raped by a man during a 2011 sleepover even though, the child frankly admitted, she had lied repeatedly in the past about claims that he threatened her life in the assault.

A 15-year-old girl is being charged with making a false police report after claiming she was raped at a Revere High School basketball game in December. The girl told police she was assaulted by a white male teen during a boys basketball game Dec. 7. But Police Chief Michael McNeely said in a press release that "the allegation was determined to be false after a lengthy and thorough investigation by Bath police."

A Canfield couple has sued the city of Canfield and some of its police officers and brass and an assistant Mahoning County prosecutor for at least $5 million in federal court, saying their 11-year daughter was maliciously prosecuted and falsely imprisoned on rape charges, of which she was later acquitted. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court by Michael and Renee Rubesich, of Willow Bend Drive, against Anissa Modarelli, an assistant county prosecutor assigned to juvenile court; Canfield Police Chief Chuck Colucci, Detective Brian McGivern, Sgt. Scott Weamer and officers Timothy Lamping and Lea Byers; the city of Canfield; and 20 John Doe defendants who the suit says are police officers, detectives, supervisors, in-charge officers or commanders.

A 23-year-old Philadelphia man has been sentenced to 6-12 years in prison for a vicious and sadistic vigilante-justice attack - in retaliation for a crime that did not...