I’ll cut right to the chase.  When things like this happens, it pisses me off to know end.  I feel my blood just boil.  When a woman lies about being raped, what should her sentence be when she is convicted?

The story of Biurny Peguero comes to mind.  She purgered herself in a rape trial that sent an innocent man, William McCaffrey, to jail for nearly four years.  This is not a case of mistaken identity, or anything else.  The woman lied, plain and simple.  This man just lost four years of his life.  He cannot get the time back and while he can possibly sue, you cannot get blood from a stone.  I’m sure this woman does not have a lot of money.  And the govermnent will not pay, as they did not make a mistake in the prosecution (though one could argue that they should have done DNA testing).

I think the only fair thing that could be done is to mete out the same punishment to this woman.  And then tack on a year or two because of the perjury charge.  Ergo, the victim served four years, and that’s where her sentence would start prior to any other sentence handed down.

The sad part is that the justice system is lined with examples such as this.