Man goes to prison for 4 years because a girl got caught looking at porn

see this is thew problem i have lately with these cases..you have females say they were abused or molested by someone when they where young and somehow it always works in court and someone goes to jail..how thye hell can they prove these accusations are true without evidence other than them saying it??? ..this idea that females cant lie or fabricate really ? me off

a more detailed article http://www.dailypress.com/news/breaking/dp-nws-victim-recants-1110-20121109,0,4625376.story?page=1


TLDR VErsion....sort of??


Bell, who was not the original trial prosecutor, told West at the hearing that Coast has been interviewed on "multiple occasions" to make sure "that her recantation is in fact true." Bell said Coast gave a detailed explanation for the lie, telling investigators that she had been caught by her parents viewing pornographic websites in the family's home — and concocted the story of prior sexual abuse as a way of explaining why she was looking at porn.

It was October 2007 when Coast told police that her grandmother's former neighbor named "John" had assaulted her back in 2001, when she was 10 years old and Montgomery was 14.

The girl said her attacker forced her to perform oral sex, and that the incident took place outside her grandmother's house on South Greenfield Avenue, off North Armistead Avenue. Montgomery's family had lived there when his father was stationed at Naval Station Norfolk as a Navy electrician.

Though she didn't remember Montgomery's last name, Coast identified him from his high school yearbook photo.

Bell says Coast has now explained that she picked Montgomery as her attacker because she knew his family had moved away and that "she did not believe that the police would be able to track him down."

But police did track him down, finding him at his mother's home in Florida.

"Imagine you're living your life in Florida, and the police show up and say seven years ago you're committing sexual acts on a minor child," Pavek said. "And you say, 'What?!' Your life is ripped from you. And it's all based on somebody just saying this. Wow. That's frightening."

Based chiefly on Coast's false testimony, Montgomery was convicted of three felonies — forcible ? , aggravated sexual battery and object sexual ? . He was sentenced to 45 years, with 7.5 years to serve and 37.5 years suspended.

Shortly after the trial — but before the sentence — Coast began working at the Hampton Police Division as a civilian information clerk.

Coast never backed away from her lie, until last month. In October, Coast told a Hampton police officer that she had lied at the trial. That revelation led to a joint investigation by the Hampton Police and Commonwealth's Attorney's Office.

Pavek said he's never had a previous case like this one. "What a bizarre thing to make up to divert attention from looking at porn web sites," he said. "She had nerve."