This woman should be arrested and put in prison because if she got the wrong kind of cops to complain to a whole bunch of nondescript 'hispanic' males would have been picked up and put away for it.

Think Central Park Jogger.

Well. If this is true- at the very least she should be fired , and made publicly to recant in a court and repay all the associated time and money spent following up on all her false leads, protection, etc.
There obviously is more to this than what meets the eyes. I was in NYC in 2009 auditioning for Millionaire and never felt unsafe- A far difference from 1984.
So please NYPD --- know you are all beautiful, respected, loved and admired by this Midwestern grown man and grandfather for what you do- as you protect us!
God bless- John 14:6, Chaplain Marc Beauchamp

this reporter should of taken a tip from this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I'm also curious about whatever her thought process was while conducting this charade. It obviously defies basic ethical sense to milk a lie about rape, and this woman is most likely not completely idiotic or insane. I really hope she is sentenced to actual prison time, and that the sentencing is well-publicized. She ought to dig deep into that wack psyche.

" I really hope she is sentenced to actual prison time"

She won't be, because she can't be. It's a misdemeanor charge. Maximum penalty, that means, is a year in jail (not prison) and $1,000 fine. First-time misdemeanor for a non-violent offense almost never results in any jail time. Expect nothing but probation, or more likely an ACD.

I guess I wasn't attune to the distinctions between jail and prison. Almost never, maybe, but this seems like a good case in which to flex a muscle.

Do you honestly think that sinking $100k a year to pay for this woman's incarceration is really the best use of the tax payers money?

Do you think she's going to get anything other than a no jail plea deal?

Oh, I don't think a just sentence for her would be more than a few months, but yes, she should do prison time. Sometimes the interests of justice are served by providing an example of the consequences of committing a crime, and in this particular case, the notoriety of the accused (and of her accusations) should be met with a demonstration. False reports of rape have implications beyond their own falseness, and do real harm to actual rape victims and the way they are dealt with by the criminal justice system and the general public.

On the other hand, maybe cases like this, the Duke lacrosse team, etc. give people pause before they rush to demonized the accused...

There are a couple of significant differences between this and Duke lacrosse team case: Jones didn't claim that she was raped, and her "suspect" was an imaginary character.

The cases are different, but they both illustrate how a proclamation or accusation by itself is no indicator of the truth. I like the idea of a defendant being regarded as innocent until proven guilty, but the sensationalism around sexual crimes makes a media indictment particularly damaging to anyone falsely swept up.

But really, that all is beside the larger point. To lie about a sexual attack and waste public resources in pursuit of a fictitious criminal, all for some measure of attention and sympathy - and we're not talking about some wayward teenage girl or disturbed college student, but an adult entrusted with numerous responsibilities... blah blah blah, why aren't I masturbating already?

One could say that you already are,

i guess you think every criminal should be allowed to roam the streets? or do you think that all female criminals should be allowed to get away with committing crimes?

If a person is no threat to people or property and their crime was basically a lie that didn't do much more than waste the time of the police than I think court ordered visits to the psychiatrist and a fine would suffice.

What if the cops had actually made an arrest, thereby encouraging her to prolong the charade and in the process destroy an innocent person's life? What if someone actually got raped or murdered while the cops were busy looking for a perp who didn't exist?

Well seeing how none of these things happened so we can only go by what really took place.

"She was deeply unhappy, personally and professionally,"

I want to know what was it personally that drove her to this, as that was mentioned in the original story as well.

Professionally, what does she have to complain about? Get up, tell people the weather for 5 minutes, and noone calls you out if you're wrong, which is 90% of the time. Sounds like a nice gig to me.

"Professionally, what does she have to complain about?"

I suppose there could be some disappointment in having been in NYC for five years and having had her career go no further than the weekend weather, especially since that spot was a step back from her prior gig -- the 4 PM daily weather forecaster in Houston.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/bi...
(Click it fast, if they took her picture down in the hallway they probably won't leave this up long.)

So, after being named "best weathercast in the state of Texas" by the Associated Press, she came to New York to make it big in the media capital of the world... and has been doing the two-days-a-week gig ever since.

She better get used to saying the phrase "Good morning Beaumont, Texas, it's going to be a beautiful Saturday."