Sara Ylen / Lyin' Sara
Posted on 01/17/2014 11:14:02 AM PST by Anton.Rutter
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.
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Sara Ylen / Lyin' Sara
Guilty!
Directed verdict of Guilty.
Sounds like she needs the help of a mental health expert.
I hope it’s five years with no chance of parole/release for good behavior.
About damn time. Step in the right direction.
Good.
yeah because women only do this because they’ve got mental problems, not because they’re just vindictive and wanting attention or pushing an agenda.
/sarc
all criminals can use some mental help. this is why women skate or do a fraction of the itme guys get for the same stuff, because you paternalize them, they cry, and guys fall for it. you say it couldn’t possibly be because they’re bad people.
everyone has bad crap happen. lots of the guys in jail have terrible experiences growing up. that’s NOT an excuse. for them, they get lengthy terms. doesn’t help them, but we somehow want it to help women get lighter treatment. it’s sick.
Jeez, take it easy. I hope she has to spend every single day behind bars. But if she is still a crazy bitch after she gets out, what has been accomplished?
Didn’t mean to come across too strong, it’s just that it’s so engrained in people to rationalize away evil female behavior and wanting to “help” them versus no such mercy for guys who did the same thing.
You can ask that question about anyone in jail. You can apply it to everyone that gets locked up.
The public first learned about Ylen in 2003 when she agreed be featured in “Sara’s Story,” an award-winning series in the Port Huron Times Herald, in which she talked about being raped in daylight in the parking lot of a major retail store in 2001. Her alleged attacker, James Grissom, was sentenced to at least 15 years in prison.
But Grissom was released from prison in 2012 after a judge threw out his rape conviction. Police in Bakersfield, Calif., said Ylen made up rape allegations during a 2001 trip there, evidence that wasn’t available to Grissom to challenge her credibility when he was on trial.
Grissom, 56, was in court Friday, sitting in the first row directly behind Ylen. He called her sentence a “slap on the wrist.”
Crystal should have gotten prison, too. No...they let the rag run free....and she eventually killed her boyfriend. My guess is that Crystal slept with every cop on the force.
In Mi if someone gets 3-5 etc, 3 is the minimum they will serve. There is no time off for good behavior or early parole.
20-life means exactly that.
No sympathy for her. Not even a tiny bit.
The medical team who examined her for evidence could not tell makeup from bruises?
Yes, it could. Some people are sick and some people are just plain evil, as may be the case with this woman, and can’t be helped without divine intervention.
Good. There needs to be more arrests with fake-rapes.
Along with financial victims, this woman (and others like her) victimize every woman who is a rape victim. Juries will always wonder whether the woman pointing at the defendant is the victim or if the defendant is the victim.
Her sentences run consecutively, which means when she’s done doing the first 2 years, then she’ll start the next sentence (sorry, memory is so bad I can’t remember what I read in the article, except the CONSECUTIVE part! Having worked around a judge who almost always did the concurrent, I’m thrilled to see consecutive) So she’ll do at LEAST 5 years. I can’t imagine either of her victims will speak on her behalf at her parole board hearings.
“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.”
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