ESU false-rape-report case heading to county court

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2009-11-17 22:23

Story here. Excerpt:

'Charged with lying about being raped at East Stroudsburg University, former student Laura Gruver, 22, of Bethlehem, waived her right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday before Magisterial District Judge Michael Muth and will head to Monroe County Court.

Gruver, who is free on $5,000 unsecured bail, will appear at a future date in district court, where she can go to trial or plead guilty/no contest.
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A first-time offender with no prior criminal record, Gruver is charged with giving a false report, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in Monroe County Correctional Facility.

Police said Gruver at first told them the following story:

At 11 a.m. Aug. 13, she was walking to her car in the parking lot, behind the Dansbury Commons cafeteria, when someone grabbed her from behind, put a knife to her throat, forced her into the woods to the ground and raped her.'

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