Canada: Innocent man locked up 19 days after ex-wife makes up rape assault

Article here. What man would be given such leniency? Excerpt:

'An Ontario woman who made up a story that her ex-spouse had choked and tried to rape her is going to jail.

Jennifer Gauthier’s lies in September 2015 landed her ex-spouse in jail for 19 days, before she recanted her claim, court was told Wednesday.

“When you did what you did, you not only hurt (the ex-spouse), you hurt every real victim out there, every real complainant,” Ontario Court Justice Karen Lische told Gauthier, as she issued a 60-day sentence.
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“Quite frankly, I feel the Crown’s position of 60 days jail is a very lenient one.”
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“A totally innocent man spent 19 days in jail,” Assistant Crown attorney Radbert Pe said. “This is essentially an attack on the justice system.”'

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She should have been given the same sentence he would have been given if he had been wrongfully convicted.

I hope eventually society wakes up to see that this is the only logical deterrent to stop false rape claims.

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