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Javier Perez Original Article06/04/2014By David Edwards A Florida activist has said that he discovered that he was framed for public masturbation by one officer who did not like the idea of police being recorded on video. In a video posted to his...

A Cobb Superior Court judge Friday found that Mye Brindle, a former housekeeper of Waffle House Chairman Joe Rogers, violated his privacy when she unlawfully recorded video of them engaging in a sex act at his home. Rogers' attorneys hope the findings result in the dismissal of a sexual abuse case Brindle brought against Rogers. For the past nine months, attorneys for Rogers have tried to gather more information about Brindle's recording and whether her own lawyers, David Cohen and John Butters, were involved in helping to make it. Cobb Superior Court Judge Robert Leonard found that in June 2012, Cohe and Butters sent their client, Brindle, to a private investigator's office, who ordered Brindle a "spy camera," which she used to make a video in Roger's bedroom without his consent.

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.

Video Description: Karen Newirth, a staff attorney from the Innocence Project who focuses on eyewitness identification explains that although witness identification seems to be the gold standard for prosecution, 75% of 300 exonerations the Project...

Video Description: What is a coerced or false confession? Many people think they would never give a false confession. Learn how a coercive interrogation can cause a false confession. The techniques of interview and interrogation taught to law enfo...

Three teens who told Walterboro Public Safety officers they were kidnapped at gunpoint and almost sexually assaulted made up the story to avoid getting in trouble, officers say. According to an incident report, three female teens claimed they were kidnapped at gunpoint by four suspects from Edisto Terrace Apartments around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 22. The girls, aged 13, 13, and 15, said the suspects tried to rape one of them, but she was able to fight them off. The girls said they were later forced out of the suspects' car at Wal-Mart. Officers say they noticed inconsistencies in the girls' statements after reviewing video from Edisto Terrace and Wal-Mart. The girls were re-interviewed, where officers say they admitted to making up the kidnapping and rape allegations to avoid getting in trouble. All three girls were charged with filing a false police report.

Alexandra Westover Original Article (Video available)02/16/2014By DOYLE MURPHY A Florida woman wasn't raped after all - she just didn't want to get in trouble for missing work, authorities said.Alexandra Westover, 21, of Boca Raton, had reporte...

A Missouri man who spent three decades in prison for rape he didn't commit is now a free man. 49 year old Robert Nelson was convicted in 1984 of rape, sodomy and robbery. He was identified by the rape victim as one of the men involved in the crime. But after the Midwest Innocence Project got involved, Nelson's DNA was tested and showed that he was not the perpetrator.

A disgruntled man is accused of filing a false police report about a rape threat and possible hostage situation that shut down a Gresham neighborhood early Monday morning. Police said the report came in around 4:15 a.m. The caller said an armed man ordered him out of his apartment at gunpoint and threatened to rape his girlfriend. Police prepared for a possible standoff and surrounded a complex on Southeast 182nd Avenue near Stark Street, shutting down roads in the area for several blocks.

Just one more of the growing reasons why the online registry should be taken offline! Even if the kid did what is claimed, he doesn't deserve to be assaulted by anybody!11/29/2012By GAIL CAMERON A battered paperboy told last nigh...

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...

Two Mississippi men spent a combined 30 years in prison for crimes they didn't commit. They were separately charged with sexually assaulting and murdering two 3-year-old girls - in two separate crimes - two years apart. The pathologist who conducted both autopsies said he suspected the girls had been bitten. They were innocent.

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.

This is the woman who lied to police by telling them she had been 'violently raped'. Elizabeth Wilkinson, 21, of Skipton Old Road, Foulridge, pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice after claiming she had been sexually attacked by a man at his house in Colne last September. As a result of her allegation a 23-year-old man from Colne, was arrested and interviewed at Burnley station as police launched an investigation into what they described as an 'horrific attack'. But she later admitted lying to her friends and officers about the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape and was charged with perverting the course of justice last December.

SEVIERVILLE - Sevier County authorities charged a woman with making a false report that she had been assaulted and raped in her home by an acquaintance. Susan Wagers was being held this morning in the Sevier County Jail in lieu of a $25,000 bond, according to the Sevier County Sheriff's Office. Wagers called 911 on July 8 and claimed she had been raped at her home on Willow Creek Lane near Sevierville. Authorities launched an investigation and searched for the alleged suspect in several areas in Sevier County, according to the SCSO. On July 9, Wagers admitted while being re-interviewed that the rape allegation was false, the Sheriff's Office said in a press release.

At 37, Meredith Maran made one of the toughest decisions of her life, one that would result in her biggest mea culpa: She accused her father of molesting her as a child. Her new memoir, "My Lie: A True Story of False Memory," chronicles her experiences with repressed memories and what ultimately led Maran to recant her claim. In an equally candid interview, the journalist discusses her saga, which unfolded at a time when the entire country was embroiled in a now controversial, Salem Witch Trials-like panic over sexual abuse.

A LYING teenager who falsely accused her ex-boyfriend of rape was jailed for 12 months yesterday. Spiteful Amanda Bradley, 19, texted her new partner to say she had been attacked. He called police and the 28-year-old ex was arrested while still in Bradley's bedroom. The accused man insisted Bradley agreed to sex - but had to endure a three-month nightmare before she admitted lying. Judge Steven Everett told the teenager: "You knew full well you were going to get him into trouble in a very big way."

Authorities arrested Kristin Milligan, 54, after police said she made false reports about being raped and sparked an emergency response from the Austin Police Department Friday. A couple of police officers responded to Sixth Street and Congress Avenue about a disturbance in progress at 8:15 p.m., after Milligan reportedly called to say there was a male on the scene who had kidnapped and held her captive for five days. Milligan allegedly told the operator he had fled the scene but said she could see him assaulting another female at the moment. Police found the suspect matching the caller's description at a bus stop a block away , where the man told police Milligan approached him at Sixth Street and Congress Avenue and said she would call 911 to report he had raped her if he did not get her a beer.

Judge speaks of "nightmare" for men wrongly accused by Emma Blunden A woman who falsely accused four men of raping her has been jailed for two years. Twenty-one-year-old Emma Blunden, sobbed as she was led to the cells at Reading Crown Court this morning (Monday). She initially accused a man named [name withheld] of pinning her down and raping her at Newbury's Two Saints hostel, where both were staying at the time, on July 26 2008. Mr [name withheld] was arrested and detectives launched a thorough investigation, the court was told, before realising that Blunden was lying to prevent a boyfriend discovering that the sex was consensual.

When Melinda Denham lied about being raped, it resulted in two people being placed behind bars. First, the man she accused, [name withheld], was jailed for two months last year before Denham admitted she lied. On Wednesday, a judge threw Denham into prison for six months, a rarity on a conviction for Ohio's lowest-level felony, which usually results in probation. "What you did in this case is, you caused a man to be incarcerated and he had done nothing and the worst part about that was you knew from the very start that he had done nothing," Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Steve Martin told Denham. "What you did was terrible beyond any words."