Four-Month Sentence for False Rape Claim

Michaela Lodge, of Braintree, UK, was living with her estranged husband and two children.  She also had a boyfriend.  It seems the whole situation confused her, what with the competing demands of husband, lover and children.  So, in order to get him out of her life for good, she instigated sex with her husband and then went to the police complaining he had raped her. 

He was arrested, held for 12 hours and ordered to stay away from his kids for three months.  That was all last November.  In February, Lodge wrote her husband a letter apologizing for fabricating the entire story.  He was never charged with rape, for reasons this article doesn't go into (Daily Mail, 7/2/09).

Lodge has just been sentenced to four months in jail for "perverting the course of justice."  The sentence came despite an appeal for leniency by Mr. Lodge.

The judge, in handing down the sentence, stated that false rape claims make it more difficult for real rape victims to come forward and be believed.  Apparently the idea that this was a crime, not against some hypothetical other woman, but against a man, and against the system of police and courts, didn't register with the judge.  If it did, he didn't say so.

Thanks to Duncan for the heads-up.

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