A Stanford University employee has been charged after it was found that the two rapes she has reported over the last year didn’t happen. To make matters worse, it looks like she was trying to ruin the life of a fellow employee who she didn’t like.
KTVU News has details:
Stanford University employee charged with lying about campus rapesA Stanford University employee who claimed that she was raped twice on campus was charged with lying about the alleged sexual assaults, prosecutors said.Authorities unearthed alleged evidence showing that Jennifer Ann Gries made up the bogus accusations about a co-worker whom she also falsely claimed to be dating.Gries, 25, told county sexual assault forensic exam nurses on Aug. 9 that she had been attacked by a Black man in his 20s in the Wilbur parking garage on campus.Gries, a Stanford Housing Services employee, told nurses, “‘He grabbed both my arms, had me on the ground facing up. He told me not to scream.'”Then two months later, on Oct. 7, Gries, reported being attacked again by a Black man in a storage closet. She alleged that after returning to her office from lunch, an unknown man grabbed her arm and took her into a basement storage closet where he raped her, according to charging documents.She described the assailant as a Black man in his late 20s.The reported attacks triggered campus-wide safety alerts and campus unrest, prosecutors said.
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ABC News has more:
In January, during an interview with a District Attorney’s Office investigator, Gries is said to have admitted to lying about the rapes and written an apology letter to the man who was the target of her allegations.“She stated she was upset with the victim because she felt he gave her ‘false intention’ and turned her friends against her,” prosecutors said.Gries was charged with two felony counts of perjury and two misdemeanor counts of making a false crime report to nurses at two different hospitals, prosecutors said. It was not immediately known if she had an attorney who could speak on her behalf.In a statement, Stanford said Gries was placed on a leave of absence and the university “will be reviewing her employment.”“These false reports are damaging, both for true survivors of sexual assault and for the members of our community who experienced fear and alarm from the reports,” the university said, while adding that false reports in sexual assault cases are rare.
Schools take rape allegations very seriously and this employee had to know that. What kind of person makes false claims like these?
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