At my neighborhood convenience store, there were signs posted everywhere, depicting the suspect with a phone number to call police if you thought you might have seen him.
At work we discussed the terrible event, I went so far as to say that if I were the girl's mother, I would be proud of her that she fought so hard, and that I hoped that sick freak died from an infection he should get where she had bitten his hand.
I'm not sure what the rest of my neighbors are saying since I just found out about this, but I imagine they are as angry as I am.
Anyway here is the article:
Clearfield police say teen lied about rape
In a statement sent to the Deseret News on Friday, Clearfield Assistant Police Chief Greg Krusi said laboratory test results and other evidence analyzed did not match up with the girl's claims about being attacked.
"The juvenile was formally interviewed again by investigators at which time she admitted to fabricating the story due to personal issues occurring in her life," Krusi wrote.
The alleged rape was reported in May when the girl said she had dropped off a friend at a nearby apartment complex. She pulled into the church parking lot at 1985 S. Main to pick up some things that had fallen off a seat in the van she was driving. That's when she said a man entered her car, overpowered her and raped her.
The rape claim had police frantically searching for the man. They even released a police sketch of a man they described as in his mid-30s, with blond hair and a goatee. The girl said the man may have sustained a hand injury in the attack.
"Clearfield police detectives screened this case with the Davis County Attorney's Office, and they will be charging the female juvenile in juvenile court with filing a false police report, a class A misdemeanor," Krusi wrote.
Hi JJ!
ReplyDeleteUJ here. I know how you feel. Way back in my cop days I had to take a report from a 14 year old girl who made a similar charge. I wanted to get a BOLO (be on the lookout) out as soon as possible, so I started the interview before the detectives got there. I was in my early 20's and found her description of events very disturbing, yet the descriptions were too vague for a bolo.
Turns out the detectives got the same froggy feeling, and finally got her to admit that it was all a lie, told to keep her from getting into trouble for coming home four hours late on a Friday night.
I didn't like having my emotions played with like that. Hopefully whatever she was really doing was worth all the trouble she caused, but it probably wasn't.
I was talking to a friend at work the other day and he suggested it was possible she made up the story because she was 'in trouble' and didn't know how to deal with the reaction of her parents.
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