False Accuser Female Biurny Peguero Jailed For 3 Years For Perjury After Admitting She Fabricated Fake Gang Rape Allegations Against 3 Men, That Had Innocent Man William McCaffrey Wrongfully Imprisoned For 4 Years
Rape fantasist Biurny Peguero, who falsely claimed that she was gang raped was sentenced to up to three years in prison by a judge in Manhattan.
The woman, Biurny Peguero, 27, pleaded guilty to perjury, admitting that she had made up the accusation that put a construction worker, William McCaffrey, behind bars for nearly four years. A judge overturned his rape conviction, with new DNA evidence playing a role.
“I question myself every day as to how I could have done this,” Peguero said to Justice Charles Solomon of State Supreme Court, adding that she was filled with remorse for sending an innocent man to prison after she discovered Christianity.
She originally said Mr. McCaffrey was the ringleader among three innocent men who raped her at knifepoint after luring her into their car. She met them after a night out at a Manhattan nightclub with friends.
Mr. McCaffrey said she had agreed to go with them to a party. He said they dropped her off unharmed after she changed her mind.
But vile jurors rejected his account after hearing from liar Peguero, among other witnesses. At his sentencing hearing, she said, “Justice has finally been served.” He was sentenced to 20 years in prison; no one else was convicted.
Prosecutors have said she told them that she claimed she was raped to make her friends feel sorry for her. Evan Krutoy, an assistant district attorney, suggested that she may have lied out of anger at a man who had upset, but not attacked, her.
“I don’t know the reason why, but she wanted to do this,” he said, urging a two-to-six-year sentence.
A defense lawyer, Paul F. Callan, noted that Ms. Peguero came forward to clear Mr. McCaffrey, approaching a priest and then the authorities to recant. In addition, new DNA tests had shown that a wound on Ms. Peguero’s arm came from at least two women — apparently friends she had fought with — and not Mr. McCaffrey.
After Ms. Peguero was handcuffed to await transportation to jail, “she told me that she was at peace with herself,” Mr. Callan said later. “She knew that she was going to be punished, but she knew that she had done the right thing.”
For his part, Mr. McCaffrey’s lawyer sent Justice Solomon a letter noting that she had made a bold move to right the wrong she had committed.
“Although we are upset about her lies that caused, in part, his conviction, we do applaud her courage in coming forward,” the lawyer, Glenn A. Garber, said in an interview.
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