Posted on 06/18/2013 4:02:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The woman whose false rape accusation sent a high school football star to prison has been ordered to pay a $2.6 million judgement in connection to the case, NBC 4 Los Angeles reports.
Wanetta Gibson (pictured) was ordered by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday to pay a $1.5 million, plus an additional $1.1 million in fees. Gibson was an acquaintance of Brian Banks at Long Beach Polytechnic High School when she accused him of raping her in a school stairwell. Gibson then sued the Long Beach Unified School District, claiming the school was not safe; she won a $750,000 settlement.
Gibson’s false accusation sent Banks to prison for five years, stripping him of his football scholarship to the University of Southern California. After Banks was released from prison, Gibson sent him a Facebook message saying “Let’s let bygones be bygones.” Thinking the message was odd, Banks worked with a private investigator to set up a meeting with Gibson. It was during their meeting where she admitted, on hidden camera, that she lied about the rape.
With the help of California’s Innocence Project, a judge overturned Banks’ conviction on May 24, 2012.
Since then, Banks had been on a mission to play in the NFL. He tried out for a number of teams, but did not make the cut. However, NFL coaches told him to keep trying. He eventually spent some time with the Las Vegas Locos of the United Football League, until the Atlanta Falcons signed him this spring.
Maybe it means that we don’t have good numbers. It seems hard to believe that 40% to 50% of claims are false and 75 to 95% are not reported. Where did they get that number?
The good news is you generally can’t discharge a judgement in bankruptcy. The bad news is the courts may as well have ordered her to birth a unicorn; enforcing the judgement will not be easy and even if she makes a des payments, if she backslides, he has to start over in court. He’ll likely never see a third of it.
I have no idea. Some people have no souls so living is easy. That's all I can figure. This is the one case that has haunted me since the 1990's, where I knew our guy was innocent without a doubt and his accuser was bar trash.
Well, that ought to discourage anyone else from ever fessing up to lying.
Shouldn’t she be prosecuted for perjury, etc. Plus, shouldn’t the school seek recovery for the money she won?
I feel guilty if I accidentally take the pen from the bank. I can’t imagine what it would be like to know someone was in prison for my lie.
XIII Amendment:
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Sentence her to be his slave for five years.
I wonder what her arm tats say? “Pathological” and “Liar”?
This malicious and ignorant b*tch could turn tricks on the corner of Main Street and Elm, and she’d never make that kind of money in an entire lifetime.
She should be hanged instead.
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