False Accusers / Wrongly Accused

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.

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.

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.

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

ST. GEORGE - After months of investigating an alleged rape that happened on a public trail, St. George Police have charged the alleged victim with fraud and filing a false police report. St. George Police Capt. Kyle Whitehead said the fraud charge stems

A STUDENT whose false rape claim led to an innocent man being arrested and held for nine hours walked free from court yesterday. Hannah Byron, 20, was told by a judge at Teesside Crown Court that she had avoided an immediate jail sentence "by a short whi

A YOUNG Sydney woman on holiday in Thailand has been jailed for 15 days after admitting she made up a story that she was raped by a taxi driver. Stevie Rochelle Bamford, 21, from the eastern suburbs, had told police she took a tuktuk taxi home after argu

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. - A woman has been arrested and charged with filing a false police report after she claimed she was the victim of a sexual attack at Main Beach on May 30. Jennifer Riechert, 32, was arrested Friday and was being held in the Nassau

A young mum who falsely accused two men of rape out of fear she would anger her dad when she returned home late has been jailed for nearly three years. Sentencing mum-of-four Emma Jones, Judge Stephen Hopkins QC condemned her false allegations for increa

AN UNEMPLOYED dance teacher who falsely accused X Factor judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub was jailed for six months after he lost an appeal against his sentence. A judge ruled the lies told by Leonard Watters that the pop music mogul sexua

SPRING HILL A woman was arrested last weekend following accusations she tried to sneak away without paying for a cab ride across two counties. Her arrest came about 10 weeks after failing to pay a dinner and wine tab at a local restaurant. Jennifer Ann

He was interviewed by the FBI and state prosecutors during a two year investigation but no charges were ever brought. His accuser, former beauty queen Lacey Carroll, was later arrested for making false sexual assault allegations against another man. Cop

A former coach at Lansdale Catholic High School has been busted on charges that he falsely accused several associates at the school of sexual misconduct. Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said Tim Udinski was arrested on charges of s

BAY MINETTE, Alabama - Andrew Jackson Boyington, 26, of Robertsdale, was arrested on a charge of falsely accusing a Fairhope police officer of rape, and threatening the officer with a promise to go to the media with the allegations, Baldwin County Distric

A judge has told a woman who falsely claimed she'd been raped by her boyfriend: "This was a wicked, terrible thing to do." Sabrina Booth-Guy, 22, of Lydford Street, Salford, told police that boyfriend Stephen Delaney had raped her in their home. But she

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.- The woman wanted for making false accusations of rape on the Charlotte County campus of Edison State College in 2009 has been arrested. Vikki Supplee, 34, of Port Charlotte, was taken into custody on Thursday, after being served a warr

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A Portland woman who said she was raped while hiking has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of filing a false report. The Oregonian newspaper reports that a judge Monday sentenced 43-year-old Angela Gilbert to two years of p

A mother-of-two has been jailed for making two false rape claims against men she was dating after one, who she had met online, failed to show up for a liaison. Emma Saxon, 23, from Sheffield, was jailed for eight months after telling police she had been