This story contains graphic references to rape and sexual assault.
A 25-year-old Stanford Residential and Dining Enterprises (R&DE) employee has been criminally charged for willfully lying about being sexually assaulted twice on campus last year, according to court documents.
Jennifer Gries, a Neighborhood Housing Service Center Supervisor for Neighborhood S (Wilbur Hall), was charged by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s (DA) Office with two felony counts of perjury and two misdemeanor counts of knowingly lying to law enforcement. Gries was arrested Wednesday morning, according to a press release by the DA’s office.
On Aug. 9, Gries told county sexual assault forensic exam nurses that she had been attacked by a Black man in a campus garage, according to the DA’s press release. Two months later on Oct. 7, Gries reported that she was attacked again by a Black man and raped in a basement storage closet. The statement said that the DA office’s investigation said that Gries falsified the stories in order to take revenge on a co-worker. At the University, the reported assaults led to campus-wide safety alerts in part prompted a large campus protest.
In a statement released by the University Wednesday afternoon, Co-Chair of the Community Board on Public Safety Patrick Dunkley and Director of Stanford University Department of Public Safety (SUDPS) Laura Wilson wrote that “These false reports are damaging, both for true survivors of sexual assault and for the members...
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