Woman Teaches Friend A Valuable Lesson With False Rape Accusations
LatestIn the most disturbing story of the day, if not the week, a woman was jailed for falsely claiming she was raped — all because her friend wouldn’t lend her money for a taxi.
According to the BBC, twenty-two-year-old Leyla Ibrahim decided to “teach a friend a lesson” when that friend refused to lend her cab fare to get back to her home in Cumbria, England. She cut her hair and clothes with scissors, and even gave herself a black eye. Then she told police she’d been raped by two men on her way home; she wouldn’t have been walking had it not been for her penny-pinching friend. Authorities actually arrested four men, one of whom was so distraught he tried to hurt himself in jail. Ibrahim’s story started to fall apart when police found the scissors she’d used to cut her clothes, and she’s now been sentenced to three years in prison. Making the story even more upsetting: Ibrahim is seven months pregnant, meaning she’ll probably spend her child’s infancy behind bars.