On nothing more than a woman’s word, and external physical damage that she apparently inflicted upon herself and her home, the man was arrested, stripped naked, and held in a solitary jail cell for 83 days without bail. When the case was finally dropped, he emerged to a destroyed reputation and continued harassment by the woman in the form of a restraining order application.
All told, the woman succeeded in preventing him from seeing his son for 8 months. But despite the obvious fact this woman deliberately lied, she was never charged of a crime and was able to maintain partial custody of her son.
Here are some highlights:
A telling quote from the detective during the man’s interrogation:
I don't have a reason not to think you did it. Yeah, I think you did it. I do.So much for innocent until proven guilty. Yet it became exceedingly clear that the man was innocent. Phone records, receipts, and surveillance camera footage from the day of the alleged assault gave the man a 6 minute window to commit the crime, which was implausible due to the elaborate nature of the allegations. And no matter how hard they tried, the police just couldn't corroborate the woman's account:
The disarray at the [woman’s] house... seemed to reflect the struggle [she] described: clumps of her hair, scissors discarded on the carpet, a spindle yanked out of the banister.But [the detective] could find nothing to place [the man] there. No fingerprints, no DNA, no hair, no clothes fibers.He remembered how [the woman] looked that day, bruised and traumatized. But the medical records seemed at odds with the sexual assault she described: They showed no internal tears or bleeding.When the case was on the verge of trial, the woman wrote his insane note to the Court:
The DA asking me to relive my horror of [the] attack is more than I can bear. For them it is a case. For me it is my life shattered. I died of Rx overdose -- suicide.Unfortunately, she didn’t go through with it. She later claimed she didn’t remember writing the letter. And why was this crazy woman never charged with a crime?
Asked why [the woman] hadn't been charged with filing a false police report, the Ventura County prosecutor, gave this explanation: "We could not say with 100% certainty that [she] was lying.I see. So she gets the benefit of the doubt.
As for the victim of this woman’s crime, he’s now paranoid:
If he's in an airport or a 7-Eleven, he makes sure the surveillance cameras get a good look at his face. Anytime he can swipe his credit card and sign his name, even to buy a pack of gum, he does it. He fills his wallet with receipts and the world with a conspicuous trail.And oh by the way, he still has to see this crazy bitch twice a week to exchange custody of his son.
