Good: Lady Going To Prison For Lying About Rape

From ABC: A judge sentenced a "tormented and disturbed" Michigan woman to at least five years in prison Friday for falsely accusing two men of rape, a punishment that came just days after she pleaded no contest to a cancer scam in a separate case that also challenged her credibility.

St. Clair County Judge Daniel Kelly exceeded the guidelines, saying it would be a "travesty of justice" to sentence Sara Ylen to less.

In December, Ylen, 38, was convicted of making up a story about two men attacking her at her Lexington home, 80 miles northeast of Detroit. The jury also convicted her of tampering with evidence by using makeup to create what looked like bruises.

Ylen's integrity has been shattered after years of being considered a sympathetic figure in eastern Michigan.

She accepted thousands of dollars from supporters and was treated by a hospice service for two years after claiming to have end-stage cervical cancer that had spread throughout her body. But state police found no evidence confirming a cancer diagnosis, and Ylen on Monday pleaded no contest to fraud in Sanilac County.

"This is a tormented and disturbed woman who will go to extraordinary lengths to wreak havoc upon other individuals, potentially subjecting them to life in prison in order to gain sympathy and notoriety for herself," the judge said Friday.

Ylen declined to speak in court, although her attorney, David Heyboer, said a year in the local jail would have been enough.

Kelly, however, sentenced Ylen to a minimum of two years in prison on the false rape report and a minimum of three years in prison for evidence tampering. The sentences will run consecutively. Her eventual release will be determined by the state parole board.

"This was justice in its best form," prosecutor Suzette Samuels said after the hearing.  http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mich-woman-false-rape-case-sentence-21569725

I think this is a very good sentence and hopefully other people will go to jail for making false claims.

Start with the former waitress who falsely claimed that a couple didn't tip her because they thought she was gay.

Then put in jail all those people who make fake racism claims.

And all the women (and some men) who make false rape charges.

When people make false charges, they can ruin their victims lives even though they are innocent.  So, it is quite fair that the people making false charges go to prison for their false complaints.