Pro Tip For False Accusers: If You're Going To Lie About Being Raped, Remove Your Fitbit
Jim Treacher at The Daily Caller links to a story by Brett Hambright at LancasterOnline, with a woman complaining that she was raped by a stranger at midnight:
Police officers acting on a 9-1-1 dispatch found overturned furniture inside an East Lampeter Township home on March 10.A knife and bottle of vodka also were found at the home where a woman claimed she was raped by a stranger at midnight.
Further investigating - including a review of a Fitbit activity tracker - showed the scene was staged and 43-year-old Jeannine Risley knowingly filed a false report, police allege.
...The [Fitbit], which monitors a person's activity and sleep, showed Risley was awake and walking around at the time she claimed she was sleeping.
Also, snow on the ground revealed no bootprints or any signs of anyone walking outside the home, according to the affidavit. The hard-surface floor in the bedroom also showed no evidence of bootprints.
The woman is from St. Petersburg, Florida, and is married. Hambright said she'd been traveling to Lancaster County, in Pennsylvania, twice a month for work.
Your prediction as to why? Having an affair and needing to cover it up? Seeking attention -- in general or from her husband?
On a positive note, there was no specific man falsely accused here -- but a "suspect" very well could have been brought in.
via @CHSommers
Some new form of Munchausen syndrome that seems to be sweeping the nation.
Bill O Rights at June 20, 2015 3:42 AM
Wanna bet she's pregnant?
paris466 at June 20, 2015 6:07 AM
Investigated. As in didn't automatically believe the word of a 'victim'. Im impressed.
peter at June 20, 2015 6:22 AM
The woman is from St. Petersburg, Florida, and is married. Hambright said she'd been traveling to Lancaster County, in Pennsylvania, twice a month for work.
Your prediction as to why?
She's planning to start a horse & buggy ride sharing service (to be called Unter), and wanted to learn from the pros.
JD at June 20, 2015 9:01 AM
1. Bravo to the DA's office for bringing charges against the false accuser. Let's hope they seek significant punishment.
2. Always curious about motives for bringing false rape charges. For college kids, it usually seems some combination of attention getting, politics, and/or regret after the fact. My guess for this older married woman is that her husband found evidence of her screwing around, she wanted to get out of that, and she figured no harm if she didn't falsely accuse anyone in particular.
3. For the record, I believe at the same time a significant number of rape accusations are false and rape goes highly underreported. An anecdote of an extreme case: an ex of mine was pervasively molested as a kid, and when people found out about it she accused a guy who was completely innocent because she was too scared of the guy actually molesting her.
Osama bin Pimpin at June 20, 2015 11:02 AM
3. For the record, I believe at the same time a significant number of rape accusations are false and rape goes highly underreported. An anecdote of an extreme case: an ex of mine was pervasively molested as a kid, and when people found out about it she accused a guy who was completely innocent because she was too scared of the guy actually molesting her.
Posted by: Osama bin Pimpin at June 20, 2015 11:02 AM
A lot of crime goes unreported, and unpunished in this country.
Unfortunately that is the price of a free society.
When you accuse someone innocent, that becomes a crime in and of itself. Witch hunts will be the death of liberty.
Isab at June 20, 2015 11:22 AM
Having an affair and needing to cover it up?
Probably not, is my guess. From the description of the evidence (as quoted by Amy) it doesn't look there was anything sexual going on.
Rex Little at June 20, 2015 4:25 PM
Unless shes pregnant, then a "rape" would be an easy cover for the abortion that her husband would see on the insurance claims
lujlp at June 20, 2015 5:46 PM
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