False accusation will cost woman $55,000From the (
Ventura County Star, 1/2/10):
A Ventura County judge has ordered a woman to pay her former boyfriend more than $55,000 after she falsely accused him of raping and brutalizing her in Simi Valley in 2008 during a child-custody dispute...
Gonzalez was arrested on Feb. 1, 2008, and was held in jail without bail until a judge dismissed the charges on April 23, 2008.
The accuser, Tracy West, was Gonzalez’s former girlfriend. West and Gonzalez, senior vice president of a Las Vegas bank, had a child together.
West told Simi Valley Police Department detectives that Gonzalez ran up to her at her home on Feb. 1, 2008, hit her on the head and knocked her unconscious, then dragged her in the house. She told detectives Gonzalez sexually assaulted her, burned her with matches and committed other violence.
The criminal case against him fell apart after his private investigator found 10 witnesses who were ready to testify that they saw Gonzalez in other locations at the time of the alleged attack...
In January 2009, Ventura County Superior Court Judge Patricia Murphy found Gonzalez "factually innocent" of the alleged crimes. The judge found no "reasonable cause exists" to believe he committed the actions...
Placencio said she was disappointed that the Ventura County District Attorney didn’t prosecute West...
This is about as outrageous and clear a case of perjury as you’re going to find–the falsely accused man faced the possibility of
five life sentences in prison, and was jailed without bail for nearly three months. It’s outrageous that the DA has decided not to prosecute the false accuser.
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