Penn. Woman Who Accused Stranger of Rape and Kidnapping Sentenced to Nearly 2 Years in Prison: ‘She Targeted an Innocent Man’
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A Pennsylvania woman who was discovered by police to have wrongfully accused a man of an attempted rape and kidnapping in Middletown Township, Pennsylvania last year was sentenced to spend nearly two years in jail.

Summary

Anjela Borisova Urumova, 20, received a 23-month prison sentence for falsely accusing Daniel Pierson of attempted rape and kidnapping in Pennsylvania, leading to his wrongful month-long incarceration.

Urumova pled guilty to seven misdemeanors, including filing false reports and fabricating evidence.

Investigators uncovered her lie after finding inconsistencies in surveillance footage. She admitted she targeted Pierson because she had seen him before.

Alongside jail time, she must pay $3,600 in restitution, undergo a mental health evaluation, and serve probation. Prosecutors warned the false claim damaged public trust and harmed real victims.

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    There’s nothing knee jerk about it. That issue literally only applies to capital punishment. Remove capital punishment and your point disappears, so that should be the focus since it would solve both situations simultaneously.

    Instead, you seem to be using it to justify not doing anything at all for the other 99.99% of crimes where that would never even apply. Which begs the question of why you want to continue to let false accusations receive minimal punishment?