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Anjela Urumova recently claimed that she was kidnapped and raped.
The twenty-year-old woman from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, asserted that forty-one-year-old Daniel Pierson attacked her from behind outside of a supermarket last spring, pulled down her pants, smacked her, and left a bruise on her face. Police investigated and arrested the man.
That man was charged with several felony offenses and even spent a month in prison.
But police later discovered evidence that contradicted the claim from Urumova, ultimately leading her to confess that she “specifically targeted” the man because he looked “creepy.”
She needs to be locked away.
Urumova is now facing as many as seventeen years in prison for falsely accusing Pierson.
That is a solid outcome from this horrific story and points to an important principle of criminal justice that is often missing from our national discussion about reforms in the court system.
In the law which God handed down to Moses and the Israelites, he made clear that if a false witness makes a false accusation, then the justice system should “do to him as he had meant to do to his brother,” meaning that “the rest shall hear and fear” making a similar false claim.
Oklahoma State Senator Dusty Deevers cited the account of Urumova and Pierson, as well as the text from Deuteronomy, in unveiling a bill he has filed to ensure that “those who knowingly make false accusations face the same punishment they tried to inflict on their victims.”
Sounds like basic common sense.
In some ways, the recent MeToo movement had decent intentions, but since the heyday of that movement, the pendulum has swung the other way and needs a massive amount of correction.
We should punish assaulters and abusers who are justly charged and convicted.
We should also most certainly punish accusers who try to unjustly charge and convict innocent people. Otherwise moral panics and mob demands will rule instead of actual sober-minded justice.
