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She Told The Cops She Was Raped. Text Messages Showed Otherwise. Now She’s Been Arrested.

Ashe Schow
She Told The Cops She Was Raped. Text Messages Showed Otherwise. Now She’s Been Arrested.
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A female student at the University of Kansas told police that she had been raped the day before. She didn’t remember all the details because, she said, she was drunk. She told the officers she didn’t want to press charges but gave them access to her phone before she entered the Lawrence Memorial Hospital for a rape examination.

After looking through her phone, police suspected she was not being truthful about the encounter and continued to investigate. They determined she had lied and arrested her for falsely reporting a felony crime.

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