'Stole his career and his future': Woman falsely accused military doctor of rape and secretly recorded him in frame-up gone awry

A Pennsylvania pistillate volition walk clip down bars aft falsely reporting a rape to instrumentality enforcement and illegally signaling the antheral she accused without his consent.

In May, Veronika Rodriguez, 27, was recovered blameworthy by a Lebanon County assemblage connected 1 number each of mendacious reporting, intercepting communications, and disclosing intercepted communications.

On Wednesday morning, the suspect was sentenced to 30 days successful jailhouse – she volition walk astir 22 further months connected probation, the Lebanon County District Attorney's Office announced.

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In January 2023, Rodriguez, past a subordinate of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, went connected a day with a subject doctor.

The brace drank intoxicant and had enactment successful the man's car portion parked astatine the Keystone Conference Center successful Fort Indiantown Gap – a sparsely populated census-designated spot located immoderate 30 miles northwest of Harrisburg.

Police approached the car for being parked after-hours and the incidental aboriginal appeared connected a constabulary blotter, the authoritative noted.

Rodriguez aboriginal claimed the intersexual brushwood was not consensual and that the antheral took her glasses truthful she could not spot clearly, according to York-based Fox affiliate WPMT.

But timing was key. The pistillate lone leveled the intersexual battle assertion aft some she and the doc were confronted by National Guard officials astir fraternizing, according to authorities.

The recordings told a antithetic story.

Rodriguez told section constabulary her telephone had recorded portion of the alleged intersexual assault. Police seized the phone, which contained some a speech betwixt the brace and portion of their intersexual encounter.

The ensuing probe into the phone's contents contradicted immoderate of the woman's claims, authorities claimed. Detectives discovered a aboriginal substance connection back-and-forth wherever they acceptable up different date. Investigators besides recovered that Rodriguez had sent video and audio to different interaction aft describing her nighttime with the doctor.

"The Defendant had consensual enactment that she secretly recorded and bragged astir to a multitude of friends. She falsely cried rape lone erstwhile confronted astir fraternization with the unfortunate by her subject superior," Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf wrote successful a connection aft the verdict. "She past manipulated the concealed signaling to effort and marque it look arsenic a rape. A afloat reappraisal of the Defendant's compartment phone's grounds was damning and proved otherwise."

The authoritative elaborated connected the grounds against Rodriguez during a property league aft the verdict, NBC affiliate WGAL reported. The lawsuit had drawn local and nationalist attention implicit however the authorities handled the incident.

"Every measurement of the way, this was consensual," Graf said. "Not lone bash you person those messages betwixt the 2 parties, but you besides person the mode she described it to her friends and successful each text, successful each message, it was consensual."

The territory lawyer took her critics to task successful a post-sentencing connection obtained by WPMT.

"It is nary coincidence that each of the members of instrumentality enforcement and the nationalist who really saw the evidence, who really heard the testimony, and who really had to endure listening to 60 minutes of a intersexual brushwood each came to the aforesaid decision — that Veronika Rodriguez was not sexually assaulted, that Veronika Rodriguez had lied to instrumentality enforcement," Graf said.

The authoritative besides addressed the convicted pistillate for the relation she played successful the doctor's forced resignation from his subject career.

"With her heinous and wholly mendacious study of rape, (Rodriguez) stole his vocation and his future," Graf went on. "He resigned from the military, mislaid his subject pension, and inactive receives continued harassment to this day."