Singapore woman gets 5 weeks in jail over false rape claim
Why it matters: Police had already traced the ex-boyfriend, taken him in and collected a blood sample before she admitted the sex was consensual.
A Singapore court jailed 35-year-old Liau Wan Ting for five weeks after she filed a false police report accusing her ex-boyfriend of rape. Court documents said the pair had consensual sex at the man's home on Jan. 7 after he picked her up around 1 a.m. Later that day, Liau asked her sister-in-law whether sex with someone who was not her partner could count as rape, then falsely claimed she had been assaulted and went to police. Investigators sent her to the OneSAFE center at Police Cantonment Complex for a forensic exam. She admitted the lie that night, saying her birth control patch had expired and she feared the man would not take responsibility if she became pregnant. By then, police had already tracked him down, brought him in and taken a blood sample.