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Two women are now facing felony charges after filing a false rape report this weekend in Fort Smith. Police arrested 19-year-old Heather Smith and her 21-year-old roommate Jeni Melton, after they claimed two unidentified men came into their apartment and raped Smith. Police were called to Roosters Bar on Garrison Avenue around 4:41 a.m. Saturday. Officers spoke with Smith and Melton about the alleged incident. The women told police they had left Roosters around 3 a.m. and shortly after they arrived at their residents on Birnie Avenue, two men came into their home uninvited. According to the report, one suspect pinned Melton to the floor, while the second raped Smith in a back bedroom.

LAGUNA NIGUEL (KTLA) -- Orange County Sheriff's investigators say a woman who said someone tried to rape her along a busy street was arrested Thursday for filing a false police report after admitting she made up the whole story. "She terrorized her own community," Orange County Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said. "It's outrageous and caused a lot of undue fear." 20 year old Danielle Deichman initially told authorities that she was assaulted Tuesday night while walking along La Paz Road. Investigators say she claimed she had been grabbed from behind and knocked to the ground near Kings Road at about 7:30 p.m.

A woman who falsely cried rape for a second time has been spared jail because a judge deemed it 'unfair' for her child to be born in prison. Heavily pregnant Gemma Scoones, 27, stood before Judge Michael Taylor in the dock at Durham Crown Court on Friday to be sentenced for perverting the course of justice. Last year, Scoones was given a 12-month jail sentence by the court after she admitted a similar offence involving a false rape allegation against her estranged husband, following the break up of their relationship.

The Hofstra false rape accusation is a chilling case study in the harsh and byzantine ways our purportedly enlightened society not only tolerates but tacitly encourages rape lies as the price of battling rape, without regard for the terrible harm to the men and boys falsely accused. Modern people cannot stomach the sort of vigilante "justice" that, well into the 20th Century, condemned countless falsely accused men and boys to the lynch mob's rope. But the Hofstra case is a somber warning that the witch-hunt hysteria fomented by those self-anointed rape avengers of yesteryear is alive and well in our news media, in our law enforcement apparatuses, indeed, in society at large.

A 21-year-old aspiring model is facing jail after falsely accusing a man of rape. Samantha Merry, from Great Baddow, wasted over 230 hours of police time after making the false claim relating to a 37-year-old man from Chelmsford back in March of this year. At Chelmsford Crown Court this week, Merry pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice in court last week and now faces sentencing on 15 November.

Six people have pleaded guilty in the hammer attack of a man after police say a woman falsely claimed he'd raped her. Felisha Hardison, her mother and four men pleaded guilty Friday in the attack on 25-year-old [name withheld]. Investigators say the Latrobe woman had claimed Mr. [name withheld] raped her, prompting the attack last April. Investigators say a group of men beat Mr. [name withheld] and hit him with a claw hammer as Ms. Hardison and her mother waited in a nearby van. Mr. [name withheld]'s injuries were limited to cuts and bruises. Less than a month after that attack, Ms. Hardison pleaded guilty to filing a false rape report in a separate case.

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.

A McCalla teen is under arrest after authorities say she made up a story that she was raped to avoid getting in trouble for being out past her curfew. Her tale of being attacked at a service station made its way onto the internet and grew to the point where rumors spread that the same type of incident had occurred two other times over the past week, said Jefferson County Chief Deputy Randy Christian. "At the very least it caused serious concerns and some panic in that area and also had the potential to damage the reputation of area businesses," Christian said. Brittany Krider, 18, is charged with giving false information to law enforcement. She was booked into the county jail Tuesday and released on $5,000 bond.

A WOMAN who sparked a major investigation after claiming she was raped as she walked home from a night out has been spared prison. Kirstie Hodgson was told by a Teesside Crown Court judge he would neither punish nor penalise her after hearing of her fragile mental state. The costly police probe was launched after Hodgson claimed she had been raped in Middlesbrough in the early hours of October 19, last year. She said the attacker told her he had a knife and stole her mobile telephone, and went on to point out the location of the alleged incident.

A girl of seven at the centre of a custody battle was coached by her mum to make fake claims that her father was a paedophile. Former jockey Victoria Haigh, 41, also launched a public campaign against her wholly innocent ex-partner [name withheld], a senior High Court judge said yesterday. After a series of private hearings, Sir Nicholas Wall decided to make his judgment public yesterday because "scandalous allegations" were put in the public domain "via email and the internet".

Original Article06/17/2013By Lisa BensonKSHB - A Missouri man who spent three decades in prison for rape he didn't commit is now a free man. 49 year old [name withheld] convicted in 1984 of rape, sodomy and robbery. He was identified by the rape...

Case Info: IMAGINE YOU ARE arrested on lies like a witch in the dark ages. Nothing you say or do makes any difference to the Verdict... GUILTY Imagine your children being abducted, starved, tortured and interrogated against you. Imagine prison f...

Original Article In 1984, the five-year-old daughter of Clyde "Ray" Spencer, a Vancouver, Washington police officer allegedly suggested that he had molested her. The ensuing investigation lasted eight months and ultimately Clark County authoriti...

Kelly M. Wilson Original Article07/10/2013By SUZANNE CARLSONSUFFIELD - A woman who police say lied about being raped by a masked intruder had actually slashed her body and choked herself with a dog collar in an effort to create "convincing" inj...

Original Article08/01/2013 By Jeff ChiricoCOBB COUNTY (CBS ATLANTA) - [name withheld], of Cobb County, filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Cobb County District Attorney's Office and other agencies for wrongful prosecution, stemming from his arr...

Original Article07/24/2013 Based on the data compiled in the NYS Wrongful Conviction Database, 35.5% of wrongful convictions since 1881 have been caused by official misconduct on the part of the prosecution and/or the police. This disregard for ...

Original Article11/14/2013By Jessica DebbasEUGENE - An Oregon woman who said she was raped and put a man behind bars for it may have been lying the whole time. KEZI 9 News first brought you this story in July. The case has since been settled, an...

Lee James (left) & Stephen Norley Original Article11/28/2013By Steven Morris A man who killed a disabled neighbour in a vicious vigilante attack because he wrongly believed he was a paedophile will serve at least 18 years in prison for what the...

Scenes of a Crime Documentary Description: "SCENES OF A CRIME" explores a nearly 10-hour interrogation that culminates in a disputed confession, and an intense, high-profile child murder trial in New York state. The film won an IFP Gotham Indep...

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...