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Woman gets 4 years in prison for falsely accusing man of rape

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A Manhattan judge on Tuesday excoriated a young woman who falsely accused a man of rape - sending him to prison for nearly four years - then tossed her behind bars.

"What happened in this case is one of the worst things that can happen in our criminal justice system," Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles Solomon said before sentencing Biurny Peguero to one to three years.

"She testified that an entirely innocent person committed an extremely heinous crime. ... It's hard for me to imagine how she could do that."

Peguero, 27, pleaded guilty to perjury last August, admitting that her claim of rape against William McCaffrey was a lie.

McCaffrey, 32, a Bronx contractor, was released from prison four months later. He was not in court yesterday.

"To Mr. McCaffrey, I am aware that nothing I can do or say can bring back the years he spent in jail," Peguero, a mother of two young sons, said before sentencing.

"I want him to know that I will carry this guilt for the rest of my life, and words cannot describe how deeply sorry I am."

Peguero had claimed McCaffrey raped her at knifepoint on a desolate Bronx street in September 2005 after she drunkenly accepted a ride from him.

In court papers filed by her lawyers, Peguero said she was too drunk to remember the night of the alleged attack so she came to believe her lie.

It later emerged that her injuries that night stemmed from a drunken brawl with a friend.

Prosecutor Evan Krutoy had asked the judge to sentence Peguero to two to six years "so that there's a chance that she will serve what he served."

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Honestly - Im glad to see this. IMO when someone maliciously accuses someone of a crime, the punishment for that should be what that person would have gotten if they were found guilty, because that is exactly whats at stake.
 
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"What happened in this case is one of the worst things that can happen in our criminal justice system," Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles Solomon said before sentencing Biurny Peguero to one to three years.
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One to three years? Why not the four years that her victim has served? Or actually the full sentence her victim would have served had she not confessed?


Peguero, 27, pleaded guilty to perjury last August, admitting that her claim of rape against William McCaffrey was a lie.

McCaffrey, 32, a Bronx contractor, was released from prison four months later. He was not in court yesterday.
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How in the fuck did it take them four months to let this guy out? The split second that they accepted her guilty plea he should have been released.
 
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BigWoof31;1664563; said:
Any idea as to how or why she finally fessed up to it?

If I'm this guy who was falsely imprisioned I'm filing every type of lawsuit I can get my hands on. Take every penny she has.
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I heard on the radio that the guy was going to be cleared by DNA evidence, or lack there of.

Looks like that's right

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Gonzalez, 27, had recanted her story last year after new DNA evidence proved she'd been lying and a priest to whom she'd confessed urged her to come clean.
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osugrad21;1664508; said:
Put her in a male cellblock.

Then its even.
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Hell I think even in the womens cellblock she will be able to experience what she had falsely accused the guy of. She isnt bad looking so Im sure she will be able to be "shared" while she is in prison. Someone who looks like her has got to be worth at least a few packs of cigarettes and maybe a shank made out of a bar of soap!
 
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Bucklion;1664608; said:
The next real rape just got a hell of a lot harder to prove in that district...that's also an unseen crime here.
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Eh, kind of. The crime, I think is quite "seen"-- dude got locked up based on a lie. (And I'm just assuming, but, I'm guessing that her testimony was the only real evidence. Well, I guess there were some bumps and bruises)

There's a thread on this somewhere, but, yeah, the real tragedy of rape from a legal standpoint is that it's pretty fucking tough to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt when most often you're relying on credibility of the accuser and the accused only...

So, yeah, a lot of bad guys get away with it... still a shame.

But, hopefully this chick didn't actually make it worse. I would hope that this was the mistake and that the level a reasonable doubt remains where it really should be.

Anyway, I've seen a lie like this before... thank goodness that one only was perpetrated for a few days.... and no one got locked up.
 
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She needs to serve at least twice the amount of time that guy did. She took away years of his life for something he didn't do and she took advantage of him. What a shame. What a bitch.
 
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