Penn. Woman Who Accused Stranger of Rape and Kidnapping Sentenced to Nearly 2 Years in Prison: ‘She Targeted an Innocent Man’
people.com
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.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    19 hours ago

    People like this should get the sentence of what they wrongly accused somebody for.

  • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    No mention of motivation. I don’t understand why anyone would choose a random person to just utterly destroy like that. Like even though he’s been found innocent can you imagine the horror of being told you were accused of that?

    Anyone read more elsewhere?

    • bean@lemmy.world
      44·
      3 days ago

      This kind of stuff boils my blood. Some asshole drags innocent people through some horrible shit for NO REASON.

      It would take years to shake that out of you after it was over and done with. Also imagine what family, friends, employers, would say and think or do because of accusations like this.

      This is so fucked up.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Could not agree more. Not only that, but the kind of damage this does to people with legitimate claims is hard to calculate…

        I think she should have gotten what he would have gotten for punishment.

  • solrize@lemmy.world
    35·
    3 days ago

    The court press release said she was sentenced to “45 days to 23 months” and the linked news article garbled that to “23 months and 45 days” which they somehow added up to “nearly 2 years”. No idea why the sentence itself has such a wide range.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    How the hell do you get from “I saw his truck” to “he tried to kidnap and rape me”