A Stanford University employee allegedly lied about being raped twice on campus last year – and even pinned the crimes on an innocent person, police said.
Jennifer Ann Gries, 25, is facing two felony charges after she visited two separate hospitals last year to report phony attacks where she said she had been dragged into rooms and sexually assaulted, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office said.
"These false reports are damaging, both for true survivors of sexual assault and for the members of our community who experienced fear and alarm from the reports," Stanford University said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
Gries allegedly first reported she was sexually assaulted in August to staff at Valley Medical Center in San Jose. She told a nurse that a man she described as a "Black male, slender, young, 6 feet, late 20s" grabbed her from a campus parking lot and dragged her into a restroom, where he assaulted her, the DA said.
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Gries then went to Stanford Hospital in October for a second rape examination, this time claiming that she was returning to her office from a lunch break when she was grabbed by a man who took her into a basement closet and raped her.
Gries also claimed that she had become pregnant with twins after the incident but suffered a miscarriage, something the DA's office said was not backed up by the evidence.
"The investigation revealed that she was not...
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