A woman who falsely claimed she was date-raped before becoming pregnant and abandoning her unwanted baby in a rubbish bin has been jailed for the statutory rape of the child's father her 12-year-old cousin.
Twyana Davis, now 30, claimed the sex attack took place at a party in 1995.
She wrote a book, Sacred Womb, documenting her experiences and went on to become an advocate for troubled teenagers after she appeared on television.
But this week she was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison after confessing that she had invented the attack and that the child she abandoned was conceived when she raped her then 12-year-old cousin.
Michael Holbrook, the judge in the case in Franklin County, Ohio, labelled Davis a sexual predator and said she was guilty of "a series of manipulations". He also fined her $10,000 (Ѓ5,400).
Davis, who pleaded guilty to one count of rape, said she planned to appeal against the sentence.
After her release, she must notify authorities of her address for the rest of her life.
She has been prevented from seeing her daughter, Danielle, since April.
'Cold-blooded liar' who cried rape twice must pay her victims Ѓ700,000... but she STILL can't be named
A woman who falsely accused two men of rape while retaining her anonymity has been ordered to pay them nearly Ѓ700,000 in compensation, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The 48-year-old married mother of two is facing bankruptcy after a judge branded her a cold-blooded liar who ruined lives with a string of fabricated allegations.
The woman who cried rape; After three years in jail, a man falsely convicted of rape goes free when his accuser is revealed as a liar.(Jamie Nelson)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Jamie Nelson was working as a chef in Ottawa five years ago. He and his common-law wife had a young son, but soon after, the couple separated. Mr. Nelson later married again and had another child. A bitter custody dispute with his first wife followed, and Cathie Fordham, the ex-wife's best friend, alleged Mr. Nelson forcibly entered her apartment in February 1996 and sexually assaulted her. The young father was sentenced to a total of 61-2 years and was not paroled until March 1999. He served more than 1,000 days in jail.
Woman Made Up Story About Rape on Modesto Bike Trail, Police Say
A woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted on a Modesto bike train Saturday was lying, according to police.
Jennifer Ogden, 20, first told police she was walking along Dry Creek near Claus Road at about 11 a.m. Saturday when she was attacked.
Detectives from the police department's Special Victims Unit tried to locate the assailant and the crime scene and found inconsistencies in Ogden's story.
When police confronted Ogden about the inconsistencies, she said she lied for personal reasons, which the police did not reveal.
Modesto police said they planned to send the case to the Stanislaus County District Attorney so that office can determine whether to file charges against Ogden for making a false report.
-You can find article after article of this happening, yet many men will still cause harm to the accused without evidence.
THE husband of rape liar Merete Underwood last night branded her a boozy, sex-mad party animal who made his life hell.
Engineering boss Toby Underwood told how the 32-year-old binge-drinking love cheat even invited men back to their home then finally left him to bring up a child she had with another man after yet another fling.
The doting husband stayed with his wife as she slept around, but the final straw came when she accused an innocent man of raping her after she had a one night stand with him.
Toby, 34, spoke as Underwood was starting a 12-month jail sentence for lying to police to cover up the fact she had enjoyed sex with the interior designer who she met in a bar after leaving her husband and two-year-old son James in another pub.
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He said: "It's horrible, she's hurt everyone so much and put so many people through so much pain.
"My marriage has been a rollercoaster, four years of complete hell.
"She has no consideration for other people's lives and she deserves everything she gets. I'm glad she's been jailed. Marrying her was the biggest mistake of my life."
Toby recalled how the rape lie night began when the couple went for an after-work drink in February last year at a London pub with little James. He said: "We'd had one drink, I pleaded with her to come home as it was dark and minus six. She had James in a buggy, it was no place for a baby.
"She took him into the pub. She drank more and more then went to the toilet. I waited 10 minutes but she'd gone. I was concerned she didn't come back that night but it wasn't out of the ordinary so I didn't phone the police." He reported her missing next day, then got a text message from her phone that said: "Merete is okay, but cries and wants to go home, but not finished with her here. Good f*** she."
Toby, of Kingston, Surrey, said: "I was destroyed. I thought she was coming home in a body bag. I could never have believed she would send messages like that and make it up."
But that was the beginning of a cruel deception on his wife's part that continued with her telling police she had left the pub for some fresh air when a stranger grabbed her by the hair, bundled her into a car and drove her to a hotel in Bayswater, West London.
The Norwegian national claimed two men then took it in turns to rape her as she was held captive for 12 hours.
Underwood pointed the finger at the 34-year-old interior designer and gave police a full description of him.
In fact, London's Middlesex Guildhall court heard, she had gone to a wine bar spotted the man, chatted him up and went to his hotel where they had sex.
But he was arrested and spent 24 hours in cell and had the spectre of a rape conviction looming over him.
Even after Underwood was charged with perverting justice, she kept up the lie for a further year. It was only when a jury was about to be sworn in that she finally admitted the charge.
Prosecutor Joanne Hacking told the court the ordeal had left the innocent man "terribly traumatised".
Campaigners insisted Underwood's sentence was too short. Ian Kelly of UKMensaid.org.uk - a support group for male victims of false allegations - said: "It should have been 12 years."
Toby, who met Underwood when he worked in Norway, has filed for divorce.
He said: "I'm not James's biological father. She had him by a different man two years into our marriage. But I'm fighting for custody and hopefully we can build a happy home together."
