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.

  • Catoblepas
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    2 days ago

    You still aren’t explaining why this merits the state murdering the accuser.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Ok, you seem to want to actually argue about capitol punishment, not false accusations, derailing the conversation for whatever reason.

      If your issue is with the extreme of capitol punishment, then you deal with that separately, because that doesn’t apply for 99.99% of crimes on the books. If there’s no death penalty for the accusation, then whether it should apply to false accusations is irrelevant.

      Purposeful, false accusations should result in the same punishment as the accusation, across the board regardless of the accused crime. Don’t falsely accuse an innocent person of something if you aren’t willing to accept the same sentence for your knowingly false accusation, seems pretty simple.

      • Catoblepas
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        2 days ago

        What I’m trying to point out is that you made a knee jerk blanket statement (false accusers should get the exact same punishment as the person they accused would have), and refuse to back down even if it means escalating what is clearly not a capital crime into a justification for the state to execute someone.

        But I’m sure the way the world and the law works is that there are super easy blanket solutions to something that just nobody has ever thought of or tried applying before 👍

        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          25·
          2 days 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?