Injected DNA from a college friend into my body and "got affected"... It was a false report

Prosecutors Sensing Suspicion, Direct Supplementary Investigation

A woman in her 30s who inserted her college classmate's DNA into her body and falsely accused him of attempted rape has been caught.

The Criminal Division 1 of Gunsan Branch of Jeonju District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Oh Se-moon) announced on the 20th that A (30) was indicted without detention on charges of false accusation.

A submitted a false accusation report to Iksan Police Station around April 29 last year, claiming that "while sleeping after taking sleeping pills, B (30), a college classmate, woke her up and committed attempted rape."

A woman in her 30s who falsely accused someone of sexual assault by claiming that her college classmate's DNA was found on her body has been brought to trial.
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A had reported this to the Sunflower Center a month before the accusation, and B's DNA was detected during the investigation at that time. Based on the DNA test results, which have significant evidentiary value in sexual violence cases, the police forwarded B to prosecution with a recommendation for indictment.

However, the prosecution doubted A's whereabouts and requested supplementary investigation because there was a two-week gap between the alleged attempted rape date and the DNA test date. The prosecution judged that if A had been living normally, DNA could not have been detected.

Also, the absence of any mention of attempted rape in the SNS conversations between A and B was suspicious. Accordingly, the prosecution secured records showing that A exchanged messages with a third party on SNS without any time gap at the time she claimed the attempted rape, proving the falsehood of the accusation.

Investigation revealed that A was being prosecuted for assaulting B and was in trial, and that she planned this incident to gain an advantageous position in the trial.

A representative of the Gunsan Branch of Jeonju District Prosecutors' Office said, "We will thoroughly investigate other sexual violence cases to ensure that no one is wrongfully punished and to uphold judicial order."

However, cases where such false accusation charges lead to actual punishment are not very common. According to the "Annual Status of False Accusation Cases in the Last 5 Years" received by Rep. Jeong Woo-taek of the People Power Party from the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, from 2018 to 2021, there were 4,583 cases of false accusation and 5,883 people arrested.

Among them, 613 people were sent to prosecution, and only 2 were detained. The rate of those arrested for false accusation who were sent to prosecution was about 13% by case and about 10% by number of people. It was revealed that up to August last year, 819 cases and 846 people were arrested.

As there are many loopholes for false accusers to escape due to the lack of provisions for attempts and negligence in false accusation crimes, there is a growing opinion that regulation on this matter is necessary.

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