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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.

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[–] npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

The motivation is what I really want to know. Given that it was just some random person, I can only hope she figured they'd never find him? So many crimes go unsolved, it's surprising they found this random man with a truck— unless she actually remembered his license plate or something, but that would indicate it was a lot less random. Maybe this wasn't as random as she's saying, maybe she got in a road rage incident with him...

I guess it's because I'm not the kind of person who'd do this, but I just don't understand why someone would. If you want the social media "clout," presumably for a gofundme or something, you don't need to go to the police about it. Even if you thought you had to, a super vague report would probably lead to a cold case that would waste everyone's time, but at least no one would go to jail. If you were truly mentally ill and delusional, you probably wouldn't admit even to yourself that it didn't happen.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Women can be surprisingly vindictive. I've been fired from a job before because a woman there did not like me and just made up a sexual assault allegation against me. I never even touched her and I definitely did not have any intentions towards her but that did not matter because the company had a zero tolerance policy. They did not even care to hear my side of the story, they just fired me on the spot without recourse.

To this day I have no idea what I did that might have pissed her off so much she'd want to destroy my livelihood. She was married AND pregnant and as much of a dirtbag as I might be, I would never even dream of hitting on someone like that.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nearly two years in prison for falsely accusing someone but if that innocent man got a sentence it would have been 20 plus years...

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. It should have been at least a few more years in prison and a felony rap too.

[–] adm@lemm.ee 8 points 13 hours ago

If the person she accused was convicted she would have ruined his life. Ending up on a sex offenders registry would have basically cut him off from social media and the internet. He wouldn't have been able to get many jobs and he wouldn't be allowed to live anywhere close to children. That could mean SO much. I don't even think you're allow3d to have a smart phone in some cases from what I've read. He would have gone to jail and then after he got out he would ha e been cut off from the modern world.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And if a non-innocent rape the man would get community service.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Or affluent (za)

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 123 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Not long enough. That's not what he would have gotten.

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago (37 children)

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.world 4 points 1 day 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.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Usually ours to account for things like good behavior/parole I think? I always assumed they used that upper range as the stick part of the incentive to not fuck up again once you’re out of prison since getting sent back would make you serve the longest possible sentence.

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

could be, or more likely in my mind it's just an ai fuckup.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Ugh, not nearly enough of a sentence.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

She should get what he would have gotten had he been convicted of her lie.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Those are some dead/crazy eyes...yikes

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

I'm glad she got charged at all, but what a weak sentence.

[–] AGreenPurple@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

23 months and 45 days? Is there any reasoning behind this depiction of the length of the hail time or is this just an error?

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

The cited source says she was sentenced to "45 days to 23 months" so error

https://www.buckscounty.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1257

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