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.
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.
You mean rape and falsely reporting a crime are two different crimes?
You mean false equivalencies and reality are two different things?
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?
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.
She should get what he would have gotten had he been convicted of her lie.
I’m glad she got charged at all, but what a weak sentence.
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.
Ugh, not nearly enough of a sentence.
Those are some dead/crazy eyes…yikes
People like this should get the sentence of what they wrongly accused somebody for.
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