Summary
Anjela Borisova Urumova, 20, received a 23-month prison sentence for falsely accusing Daniel Pierson of attempted rape and kidnapping in Pennsylvania, leading to his wrongful month-long incarceration.
Urumova pled guilty to seven misdemeanors, including filing false reports and fabricating evidence.
Investigators uncovered her lie after finding inconsistencies in surveillance footage. She admitted she targeted Pierson because she had seen him before.
Alongside jail time, she must pay $3,600 in restitution, undergo a mental health evaluation, and serve probation. Prosecutors warned the false claim damaged public trust and harmed real victims.
The motivation is what I really want to know. Given that it was just some random person, I can only hope she figured they’d never find him? So many crimes go unsolved, it’s surprising they found this random man with a truck— unless she actually remembered his license plate or something, but that would indicate it was a lot less random. Maybe this wasn’t as random as she’s saying, maybe she got in a road rage incident with him…
I guess it’s because I’m not the kind of person who’d do this, but I just don’t understand why someone would. If you want the social media “clout,” presumably for a gofundme or something, you don’t need to go to the police about it. Even if you thought you had to, a super vague report would probably lead to a cold case that would waste everyone’s time, but at least no one would go to jail. If you were truly mentally ill and delusional, you probably wouldn’t admit even to yourself that it didn’t happen.
No mention of motivation. I don’t understand why anyone would choose a random person to just utterly destroy like that. Like even though he’s been found innocent can you imagine the horror of being told you were accused of that?
Anyone read more elsewhere?
Women can be surprisingly vindictive. I’ve been fired from a job before because a woman there did not like me and just made up a sexual assault allegation against me. I never even touched her and I definitely did not have any intentions towards her but that did not matter because the company had a zero tolerance policy. They did not even care to hear my side of the story, they just fired me on the spot without recourse.
To this day I have no idea what I did that might have pissed her off so much she’d want to destroy my livelihood. She was married AND pregnant and as much of a dirtbag as I might be, I would never even dream of hitting on someone like that.
Nearly two years in prison for falsely accusing someone but if that innocent man got a sentence it would have been 20 plus years…
Yes. It should have been at least a few more years in prison and a felony rap too.
If the person she accused was convicted she would have ruined his life. Ending up on a sex offenders registry would have basically cut him off from social media and the internet. He wouldn’t have been able to get many jobs and he wouldn’t be allowed to live anywhere close to children. That could mean SO much. I don’t even think you’re allow3d to have a smart phone in some cases from what I’ve read. He would have gone to jail and then after he got out he would ha e been cut off from the modern world.
And if a non-innocent rape the man would get community service.
Only if he’s young and talented
Or affluent (za)
Not long enough. That’s not what he would have gotten.
This kind of stuff boils my blood. Some asshole drags innocent people through some horrible shit for NO REASON.
It would take years to shake that out of you after it was over and done with. Also imagine what family, friends, employers, would say and think or do because of accusations like this.
This is so fucked up.
Could not agree more. Not only that, but the kind of damage this does to people with legitimate claims is hard to calculate…
I think she should have gotten what he would have gotten for punishment.
So slander is as bad as rape?
Slander that implicates an innocent of a crime should carry the sentence of that crime. His life is forever changed, and is forever linked with that accusation, regardless of his innocence.
Slander that implicates an innocent of a crime should carry the sentence of that crime
Why should someone be sentenced to death for falsely accusing someone of murder?
So murdering someone by falsely getting him the death penalty is somehow better than murder by poisoning?
Whatever the sentence would be for the false accusation, yes.
These situations where people are being convicted for these false accusations don’t come from simple misunderstandings or poor testimony, they come from people purposefully making false accusations and even fabricating evidence. It’s effectively conspiracy to defraud the government and waste resources as well.
If anything I’d say the sentences for these should even be higher than the accusation punishment, since these people are purposefully trying to ruin the life of the accused and abusing the justice system to try and do it for them.
That doesn’t answer my question
Why should the penalty for falsely accusing someone of murder be death?
The penalty for murder isn’t death.
Why should we have death sentences?
You seem to be under the mistaken assumption, that a simple accusation by itself means something, it doesn’t. They don’t prosecute a mistaken eyewitness for false testimony. A simple false claim doesn’t bring the wrath of the system down on someone to the point where they are charged for those false claims, you’ve got to show a complete disregard for reality and the system for things to reach that level.
People lie about shit all the time, especially to police, very few reach the point where they are prosecuted for those lies. The ones that rise to the level where they bother to actually do something about those false claims should receive the same full punishment of those false accusations.
If you knowingly falsely accuse someone of murder with the intention of having them be prosecuted and sentenced for a crime you know they did not commit, then you should receive that same punishment, not a slap on the wrist like a year of prison and some fines.
Because if the sentence for the innocent person would have been carried out as the death penalty, then an innocent person would have died. Thankfully, in this case, the justice system worked, but if it hadn’t, the outcome would have been the figurative end of that person’s life. The weight of the accusation, especially a malicious one (which this was), should be born by the accuser, should it be proven false.
It shouldn’t be, unless the falsely accused was sentenced to death based purely on the accuser’s lies.
That would be murder, which can carry capital punishment.
If someone tries to get a death sentence for an innocent person, that is attempted murder. If the punishment for attempted murder in your country is the death penalty, the false accuser should be charged with the death penalty.
Note that this is all assuming that it’s proven the accuser did a false claim. The accused being found not guilty is not enough to say that it was a false accusation. Due to the different standards of proof.
If the accused would get the death sentence, the accusation is basically attempted murder. Thats what they should be charged with.
I shall answer, because I am a firm believer in capital punishment.
Death should be given because death should be the punishment for all crime. The white blood cells inside your body agree with me - they are eager to give the death penalty to any criminals infesting your body. There’s no pardons or rehabilitation or anything like that; your white blood cells know that there can be no tolerance for crime.
More blood for the blood god is an acceptable answer, thank you for your honesty 👍
Such a bad faith line that tries to down play the damage this did. Do better.
Not what they said and you know it.
You mean rape and falsely reporting a crime are two different crimes?
In this house, we believe in false equivalences and appeals to pathos!
You mean false equivalencies and reality are two different things?
How the hell do you get from “I saw his truck” to “he tried to kidnap and rape me”
The court press release said she was sentenced to “45 days to 23 months” and the linked news article garbled that to “23 months and 45 days” which they somehow added up to “nearly 2 years”. No idea why the sentence itself has such a wide range.
Usually ours to account for things like good behavior/parole I think? I always assumed they used that upper range as the stick part of the incentive to not fuck up again once you’re out of prison since getting sent back would make you serve the longest possible sentence.
could be, or more likely in my mind it’s just an ai fuckup.
Ugh, not nearly enough of a sentence.
She should get what he would have gotten had he been convicted of her lie.
Those are some dead/crazy eyes…yikes
I’m glad she got charged at all, but what a weak sentence.
23 months and 45 days? Is there any reasoning behind this depiction of the length of the hail time or is this just an error?
The cited source says she was sentenced to “45 days to 23 months” so error
Often with non-violent crimes like this, the sentencing is determined formulaically. It’s pretty common for the judge to just go with whatever the legislature-recommend sentencing states. X charge = Y days, and you just add up all the Y’s.
This is a violent crime, restriction of someone’s freedom is a type of violence, but apparently if you get the government to do it for you it stops being violence.
Helps that the system wants to put people so much behind bars that no evidence is needed other than a finger pointing.
He was jailed for a month
In this context, ‘non-violent’ has a technical meaning. So we don’t need to play word games with it. As for putting people behind bars without no evidence, that’s not a thing that happens in rape or kidnapping cases. And in this case, the false accuser in the one going to prison.
Probably just the way multiple sentences easily added up and the writer didn’t bother to convert for consistency. X months for one crime, Y days for that crime, etc.
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