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An 18-year-old Venetia woman is facing perjury charges after investigators said she lied about being raped in the parking lot of the South Park wave pool last year. According to the criminal complaint, Katelyn Webster told authorities she raped by Matthew Folino while sitting in the pool's parking lot in June 2012. Webster told police that Folino put his hands around her neck to hold her down. There were marks on her neck to validate her story.

CONYERS - Conyers police have pressed charges against a woman accused of making a false sexual assault report, authorities said. Amanda Little, 26, of Oxford, initially told police that she was kidnapped while walking in the parking lot of the Walmart at about 1 a.m. on Dogwood Drive on June 24, investigators said. Little said she was taken to an undisclosed location and sexually assaulted, said police. Upon further investigation, and after reviewing video from the Walmart parking lot, police said Little's story simply didn't add up. She later admitted to detectives that she lied and told them that she had been having sex at another location when her cell phone, which was in her back pocket, accidentally dialed the number of her boyfriend's friend and left a voicemail recording, police said. Little said she came up with the abduction story as a cover up, investigators said.

The young woman who told police she was abducted and raped at a Queensbury town park has been charged with falsely reporting the attack after police determined she had been working as a prostitute and had arranged a sexual encounter with a man that night, police said. The 17-year-old from Glens Falls was charged with misdemeanor counts of prostitution, falsely reporting an incident and making a false written statement to police for her report that she was raped at Hovey Pond Park the night of June 15. Her name is being withheld because of her age.

A FALSE claim of rape by a Ramsgate teenager was "a cry for help" according to her mother. The 19-year-old made the allegation that she had been a victim of sexual assault in Boundary Park at 2am last Friday. Police cordoned off the park and had forensic officers on the scene following the claim and put out an appeal to find the "suspect," described as aged between 40 and 45, 6ft tall, of large build and with wrinkles on his face, particularly around the cheeks. But the following evening police said they were no longer appealing for information and revealed the woman who had made the allegation had been formally cautioned for wasting police time.

A WOMAN has been interviewed by police after admitting making a false allegation of rape. The 26-year-old claimed she was leaving the ground-floor level of the Wellington Square shopping centre car park in Stockton-on-Tees last week when a man approached her from behind and sexually assaulted her. Police launched a media appeal for information and arrested, and bailed, a 22-year-old man in connection with the incident. However, the woman then admitted she had made a false allegation. The man has now been released with no further action to be taken. Police have passed the file for the case on to the Crown Prosecution Service, who will decide whether to prosecute the woman.

A Pittsburgh-area man who was dragged out of bed in the middle of the night by gun-wielding police based on accusations of sexual assault by a woman who later turned out to have invented the story says that the incident was "scary." Likely most people who have been in similar situations would agree. The story shows how sexual assault arrests are frequently based mostly, if not entirely, on the word of the alleged victim. The arrested man briefly dated the alleged victim before breaking up with her last summer. Several weeks later, he was asleep at his home when police banged on his door around 2 a.m. As he recalled, there were several officers loudly calling his name with their guns drawn. The arrest was based on the ex-girlfriend's claims that the man had followed her and her friends to a wave pool. He lured her into his vehicle, drove her to a parking lot before choking and raping her, the woman said. Her friends supposedly discovered them and scared off the man, who pushed the woman out of the car and drove away, she told police. Following the arrest, police spoke to the ex-girlfriend's friends. They contradicted her story, explaining that they had not been at the wave pool where the alleged sexual assault occurred. They said the ex-girlfriend had started dating a new man who had given her bruises on her neck and she did not want her parents to find out so she made up the assault. After confirming this account, police released the man and arrested the ex-girlfriend on suspicion of making false statement and perjury.

Police say a man who claimed he was sexually assaulted by two male attackers had "made the story up". Officers have now cancelled an investigation launched after the 20-year-old said he had been subjected to an attack in Carlisle during the early hours of the morning. The force confirmed the man who made the allegation admitted last night that it did not actually happen. The inquiry had been launched on Sunday night after police were told a man was assaulted as he walked home alone "in the vicinity of" the Lower Viaduct area on Saturday morning. Investigations had focussed on allegations he was pushed into a car park by two male attackers and "subjected to a serious sexual assault".

A Comstock Park woman faces criminal charges after police say she admitted to creating false Facebook accounts with her ex-boyfriend's personal information to make it appear that his new girlfriend was threatening her. Cheryl Nelson, 52, is charged with false report of a felony and unlawful posting of a message. Nelson, over the course of a year between November 2011 and last October, made at least eight criminal complaints to the Kent County Sheriff's Department, saying she had been the victim of stalking, harassment, assault and home invasion.

A Michigan woman who appealed for money to fight her cancer was charged Monday with fraud, just a few days after she was accused in another case of falsely reporting a rape and using makeup to show injuries. Besides two criminal cases filed against Sara Ylen in less than a week, she also was involved in the prosecution of James Grissom, who was released from prison last fall after nearly 10 years. Despite no physical evidence, Grissom was found guilty of raping Ylen in 2001 in a parking lot. A judge threw out the conviction after authorities learned she had made up sexual-assault allegations in California, information that wasn't available to the defense at trial.

Jessica De La Vega said she was abducted from Goshen College at knife-point and then raped at a nearby park. Investigators say it was all a lie - that she made the story up as an excuse to her parents for being gone from home too long. For months, students at Goshen College took extra steps to stay safe. They used security escorts and watched out for one another. "We were always walking in pairs, especially that night," said Erica Yost, a senior at the university.

A Kingsport woman has been arrested after allegedly claiming she was raped by unknown men on two occasions at Warriors Path State Park, but later admitting she fabricated the accounts to cover up an extramarital affair. Kimberly Evans, 29, of 2633 Reserv

A little sprain in the forecast didn't stop "cry-rape" weather gal Heidi Jones from limping into Manhattan Supreme Court today to be sentenced for snowing authorities last fall. Jones, 37 -- wearing a tight gold skirt, a frilly matching sleeveless blouse, and a big black boot-cast on her left foot -- will serve 350 hours of community service at a not-for-profit agency. The former WABC/Channel 7 meteorologist had pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of filing a false police report. She'd claimed that a "Hispanic" pervert in his 30s or 40s had grabbed her from behind as she jogged in Central Park last fall.

ORLANDO - A 21-year-old woman admitted she fabricated being raped Monday night and was arrested on charges of making a false report, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. This was the fourth false rape report that Emily Riker has made, and the third in 2010, according to a police report. Riker claimed a man driving a silver Toyota approached her in the parking lot of a CVS store and forced her into his car near Powers Drive and Silver Star Road, police said.

On the day before Thanksgiving in 2004, a 16-year-old girl walking to a friend's house on Buena Vista Avenue in Lemon Grove was sexually assaulted by a man who dragged her into the bushes near the Highway 94 underpass. She smashed his face with a CD player, fled to a passer-by's car and called the police. Although she was unable to provide enough details for a composite sketch, she described a truck with a camper shell she believed her attacker was driving. When a similar vehicle was spotted in Oceanside, the trail led detectives to Uriah Courtney, a 25-year-old construction worker from North Park. His picture was put in a photo lineup, and the victim, although not completely sure, picked him out. So did another witness from the crime scene. Courtney was arrested. The main evidence against him at trial was the eyewitness testimony. He was convicted of kidnapping and rape and sentenced to life. He told the victim in court he didn't do it and said he hoped the truth one day would come out.

A teenager who spent months behind bars wrongly accused of rape after a DNA blunder has spoken of his 'relief, anger and disgust' after the charge was dropped. Adam Scott, 19, was due to stand trial next month in connection with a sex attack on a woman at Plant Hill Park in Blackley. The M.E.N. revealed yesterday how his DNA - taken in connection with a separate matter - had contaminated a sample from the victim while being processed at a laboratory run by LGC Forensics. Mr Scott, from Truro in Cornwall, is now considering taking legal action - and his lawyers are calling for a public inquiry into the blunder, which could lead to other rape and murder cases being reopened.

Original Article10/01/2013A woman who falsely claimed she had been raped in a park in Margate has admitted wasting police time.Charmaine Ripley, 26, of Leslie Avenue, Margate, sparked a large-scale police investigation after claiming she was raped...

Original Article12/24/2013By Elizabeth KeatingeRUTLAND - Police say Marie Severance, who resides outside of Vermont, falsely reported that she was raped at the Main Street Park Gazebo in Rutland. Police say providing false information to law enfor...

Original Article12/26/2013By LYNNE TUOHYCONCORD (AP) - The New Hampshire Supreme Court has reversed a man's conviction for attempted possession of child sex abuse images, saying police were wrong to arrest him for taking pictures of children at ...