Teen Made Up Rape Report, Bath Police Say

5-7-2013 Ohio:

Girl will be charged for saying she was assaulted at Revere High School basketball game

A 15-year-old girl is being charged with making a false police report after claiming she was raped at a Revere High School basketball game in December.

The girl told police she was assaulted by a white male teen during a boys basketball game Dec. 7.

But Police Chief Michael McNeely said in a press release that "the allegation was determined to be false after a lengthy and thorough investigation by Bath police."

Evidence collected during the investigation disproved her report, and the girl later admitted the report was false, the news release said.

The charge against the girl, a first-degree misdemeanor, is pending in Summit County Juvenile Court.

Bath police credited cooperation by the Revere Local Schools administration with helping close the case. ..Source.. by Debbie Palmer

Police: Teen fabricated rape claim

10-22-2013 Connecticut:

Woman could face charges of filing false police report.

Authorities could charge an 18-year-old Huron County woman with filing a false police report after investigators determined she made up a story that she was raped.

County authorities had been investigating the alleged rape of the 18-year-old female by an 18-year-old male within the last two weeks.

Huron County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Ted Patrick has said the two were living in the same foster home at one point. He added during initial interviews it wasn't "clear cut exactly what did take place."

On Saturday, Detective Bill Duncan and Sgt. Steve Shupp re-interviewed the alleged victim, who admitted she lied when she said she was raped. It turned out the sexual activity was consensual as the alleged suspect had said, Patrick said.

"Now it's a matter of whether she's going to get charged for fabricating that story," Patrick said. He added authorities will send information to the Norwalk Law Director's office for the consideration of charges.

Patrick commended Duncan and Shupp for uncovering the truth.

"They did a phenomenal job," he said, adding they used different interview techniques to before the female teenager admitted she fabricated the story about a rape.

"Her story wasn't adding up," Patrick said. ..Source.. by Aaron Krause

Appling woman charged with making false rape claim

11-14-2013 Georgia:

An Appling woman was arrested Wednesday and charged with falsely accusing two men of sexually assaulting her, authorities said.

Mindy Rickerson Readdy, 32, was charged with making a false report of a crime and making false statements.

On Oct. 31, Readdy called authorities about 2 a.m., claiming her 19-year-old boyfriend put a knife to her throat and raped her in their bedroom. She said her boyfriend, Cody Carson, told her he’d get away with raping her because he is her boyfriend.

Carson was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and spent two weeks in jail. He was cleared of the allegations and released Wednesday, according to Columbia County sheriff’s Capt. Steve Morris.

In April, Readdy had told authorities that a friend physically forced her to perform oral sex on him while they watched a movie at her home. Her friend was never arrested.

Morris said both sex acts were consensual and that Readdy admitted she lied about them.

Readdy was being held Thursday in the Columbia County Detention Center on an $11,700 bond, according to jail records. ..Source.. by Valerie Rowell

Probation for Elgin teen made false rape report

9-26-2013 Illinois:

A teen who falsely claimed she was sexually assaulted in March near an Elgin townhouse complex where a murder had just occurred, was sentenced to 18 months probation and 100 hours of community service.

Katrina R. Sedlock, 18, of the 0-99 block of block of Garden Crescent Court in Elgin pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. She was initially charged with filing a false police report, a felony punishable by anywhere from probation to three years in prison.

Sedlock pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of attempted disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, and also must pay a $915 fine, court records show.

Sedlock, who was a Larkin High School senior at the time, lived on the same block as Lisa Koziol-Ellis, who was murdered March 2 in her townhouse.

Elgin police said Sedlock told authorities she was walking a dog near Garden Crescent Drive and Wing Street on March 13 when a man asked her for a cigarette, punched her in the head and took her to a secluded area and raped her. The dog also ran away during the attack, police were told.