Woman Confesses to False Rape Charge
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Woman Confesses to False Rape Charge
(Aug. 13) -- William McCaffrey has spent the last four years in prison, serving a 20-year sentence for a rape the victim now says never happened.
Biurny Peguero, now married and using the last name Gonzalez, accused McCaffrey of raping her in September 2005, and he was convicted by the State Supreme Court in Manhattan. But in March, Gonzalez confessed to her priest, and later to her attorney, that she had fabricated the rape story, according to reports from The New York Times and the New York Post.
Skip over this content Gonzalez initially accused McCaffrey of raping her while on the way to a late-night party. According to the Post, Gonzalez now says she lied about being raped because her friends were angry with her for stranding them without a ride when she went off to the party with McCaffrey.
While there was no physical evidence of rape, Gonzalez did have bite marks on her arm and shoulder -- wounds she said were caused by McCaffrey. These bites and Gonzalez's testimony led to the conviction.
In 2008, new DNA testing cast doubt on the case when it revealed the genetic material taken from the bites had no Y chromosome, so it could not be male. According to the Times, court papers showed the district attorney's office refused to overturn the conviction based on the test because the DNA from the sample could have come from the tears of Gonzalez's friends.
Gonzalez now claims the bites and scratches on her body at the time of the alleged rape were caused by her friends, who physically assaulted her in their anger over being stranded.
McCaffrey's lawyer filed papers Wednesday for the rape conviction to be vacated and for his client to be set free. However, Gonzalez has refused to testify on behalf of McCaffrey unless she receives immunity on perjury charges.
Should Gonzalez be granted immunity so she will testify and help free McCaffrey? No absolutely not, however I get the feeling without her testimony McCaffrey will STILL sit in jail even after spending 4 years in jail for an apparent crime he didn't commit.
What's amazing here was how easy it was to apparently set McCaffrey up. :shock:
Peace
(Aug. 13) -- William McCaffrey has spent the last four years in prison, serving a 20-year sentence for a rape the victim now says never happened.
Biurny Peguero, now married and using the last name Gonzalez, accused McCaffrey of raping her in September 2005, and he was convicted by the State Supreme Court in Manhattan. But in March, Gonzalez confessed to her priest, and later to her attorney, that she had fabricated the rape story, according to reports from The New York Times and the New York Post.
Skip over this content Gonzalez initially accused McCaffrey of raping her while on the way to a late-night party. According to the Post, Gonzalez now says she lied about being raped because her friends were angry with her for stranding them without a ride when she went off to the party with McCaffrey.
While there was no physical evidence of rape, Gonzalez did have bite marks on her arm and shoulder -- wounds she said were caused by McCaffrey. These bites and Gonzalez's testimony led to the conviction.
In 2008, new DNA testing cast doubt on the case when it revealed the genetic material taken from the bites had no Y chromosome, so it could not be male. According to the Times, court papers showed the district attorney's office refused to overturn the conviction based on the test because the DNA from the sample could have come from the tears of Gonzalez's friends.
Gonzalez now claims the bites and scratches on her body at the time of the alleged rape were caused by her friends, who physically assaulted her in their anger over being stranded.
McCaffrey's lawyer filed papers Wednesday for the rape conviction to be vacated and for his client to be set free. However, Gonzalez has refused to testify on behalf of McCaffrey unless she receives immunity on perjury charges.
Should Gonzalez be granted immunity so she will testify and help free McCaffrey? No absolutely not, however I get the feeling without her testimony McCaffrey will STILL sit in jail even after spending 4 years in jail for an apparent crime he didn't commit.
What's amazing here was how easy it was to apparently set McCaffrey up. :shock:
Peace
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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fuck you asshole...you've ruined a guys life because your friends were pissed at you and you want to make a deal
rot in hell asshat!!
She shouldn't only be charged for false accusations. If something bad happened to this guy while in prison that lady should be charged for it as well.
i fucking hate liars.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
her friends bit her arm and shoulder?? i can understand being pissed that i was stranded without a ride home but i wouldn't bite the person!
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
It sounds like this woman has a whole lot of problems. :(
In a recent Dear Abby column a woman wrote in to say that her mentally ill sister, who was currently institutionalized, always had accused her father of molesting her. Absolutely no one believed her, least of all her mother. Well, Daddy died and left behind Polaroid evidence that everything the mentally woman said was true. He was never prosecuted and never served any time. The man was free to abuse her as much and as often as he wished and had opportunity. The mentally ill woman was literally defenseless against the abuse because everyone thought she was making it up. Indeed, even after the photographic evidence, some family members seemed to be in a state of quasi-denial. Since the abused woman was sick, she couldn't be right about anything, huh?
For every story about a woman lying there are dozens more, typically untold, in which someone is being severely abused with no recourse or fails to recognize they have recourse.
It's not a perfect world. It never will be. Some people are manipulators and victimizers...it's sometimes difficult to say just who they are.
That is fucked up. Did they say if it was possible her mental illness was a result of the abuse?