False Accusation of Sexual Assault Leads to Murder

A 62 year old man in Utah is dead after the brother of a 16 year old teenager who accused him of sexual assault killed him.

The girl told her brother that the man sexually assaulted her on the bus. When the man got off on his stop, the brother followed him off the bus, tackled him to the ground and beat him. The man died from his injuries a few days later.

Surveillance video from the bus showed that, in fact, no assault had taken place and the accusations were false!

The tragedy is not just the death of the innocent man, but the number of persons falsely accused of sexual assault who do not have the benefit of a surveillance video to support their innocence. Many among our population are innocent but took a plea to withhold of adjudication and a few months probation decades ago, unknowing of the lifelong consequences that would follow them.

The Innocence project, which focuses on exhortation of death-row inmates, said that of the 130 DNA exonerees were wrongfully convicted for murders; 40 (31%) of these cases involved eyewitness mis-identifications and 81 (62%) involved false confessions [as of July 9, 2018].


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11 thoughts on “False Accusation of Sexual Assault Leads to Murder

  • May 13, 2019

    The bad thing about these sort of accusations is that all that has to happen is for someone to point a finger and you are guilty. even if there is no physical evidence. You are guilty without a chance of proving your innocence. Threatened with life in prison unless you take a deal which is ridiculous. then your life is ruined and you are labeled a sex offender for the rest of your life with lifetime registration and the fear of some vigilante seeing your name on the internet and murdering you or making a mistake and murdering a loved one. Something has to change.

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  • May 13, 2019

    Yes thier should the one’s who falsely accuse someone should be punished for lying

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