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'There are real victims in Biurny Peguero Gonzalez’s fake rape story.
In 2005, the Union City woman told authorities in New York that William McCaffrey, a construction worker from the Bronx, and two other men kidnapped and sexually assaulted her at knife point. She now admits it never happened.
McCaffrey was three years into a 20-year sentence when a judge ordered him freed, based on Gonzalez’s admission. She now faces seven years in prison herself.
The other victims in this case are the true victims of rape. Andrea Spencer-Linzie, executive director of N.J. Coalition Against Sexual Assault, estimates that 80 percent of sexual assaults go unreported, often because victims fear they won’t be believed.
"There’s a very prevalent myth that there are a lot of false allegations, so whenever there is one, it plays into the myth," she says.
That’s a real crime. And another reason Gonzalez deserves to be punished.'
