1-to-3-Year Sentence for Knowingly False Accusation of Rape

The New York Post reports:

A young mother who falsely cried rape, sending an innocent man to prison for nearly four years, will … spend one to three years behind bars for perjury….

McCaffrey, 33, of The Bronx, was locked up after [Biurny Peguero] Gonzalez accused him of raping her at knifepoint on a Bronx street back in 2005….

[Gonzales had] been hanging out with a group of girlfriends when she accepted an invitation to get into his car.

After she returned, her pals were furious that she’d ditched them — so she made up the rape story to gain their sympathy….

Gonzalez, 27, had recanted her story last year after new DNA evidence proved she’d been lying and a priest to whom she’d confessed urged her to come clean….

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