Woman Faked Being Raped To Fool Husband

She split her own lip with a pin, scraped
her knuckles with sandpaper and had her friend punch her in the face.
Investigators say she even ripped open her blouse, then wet her pants to
give the appearance she had been knocked unconscious.

But it was all part of what authorities said
Friday was an elaborate hoax by the woman to convince her husband she
was raped so they could move to a safer neighborhood.


Charges filed by the Sacramento County
district attorney allege Laurie Ann Martinez, a prison psychologist,
conspired with the friend to create the appearance that she was beaten,
robbed and raped by a stranger in April in her Sacramento home.
Martinez, her friend and two co-workers
eventually told police the whole thing was a setup to convince
Martinez's husband that they needed to move from a blighted, high-crime
area three miles north of the state Capitol.


It didn't work. Instead, the couple filed for divorce six weeks after the April 10 incident, according to court records.


"If all you wanted to do is move, there's
other ways than staging a burglary and rape," said Sacramento police
Sgt. Andrew Pettit. "She went to great lengths to make this appear
real."


Martinez, 36, a psychologist for the
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, reported she
had come home that day to find a stranger in her kitchen, authorities
said.
"As she tried to run away, the suspect
grabbed her and hit her in the face," court records say in describing
what she told police. "She lost consciousness and then when she awoke
she found her pants and underwear pulled down to her ankles."


Missing from her home were two laptop
computers, Martinez's purse, an Xbox video game console, a camera and
numerous credit cards that Martinez said the stranger had stolen.


In reality, the items were all at the home
of her friend, Nicole April Snyder, authorities allege. Investigators
say Martinez had Snyder punch her in the face with boxing gloves they
bought for that purpose.


Martinez began crying hysterically when police arrived, according to court papers.


Martinez's two lawyers in the family court
actions, Russell Carlson and Ben Ramsey, did not immediately return
telephone messages seeking comment. Her husband's attorneys in the
family law case declined to comment.


Martinez was arrested Monday and freed on
$50,000 bond. There is no record that she has a criminal attorney before
her arraignment set for Monday.


Snyder, 33, is charged with the same
conspiracy counts, and a warrant has been issued for her arrest. Shelly
Orio, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office, said she had no
indication that Snyder has retained an attorney.


If convicted of conspiracy, each woman faces up to three years in prison, Orio said.


Police detectives and crime scene
investigators spent hundreds of hours on the case, until one of
Martinez's prison co-workers came forward to say Martinez had been
talking at work about faking a crime at her home to persuade her husband
to move, Pettit said.


"It doesn't sit well for other women who really are victims, crying wolf," Pettit said.


Martinez had been a psychologist overseeing
other mental health workers treating inmates at California State Prison,
Sacramento, said department spokeswoman Terry Thornton. The prison 20
miles east of Sacramento was the scene this week of a fight among more
than 150 inmates that sent 11 inmates to outside hospitals.


Thornton said Martinez was redirected to the
department's headquarters in May, when the investigation began, and has
had no contact with inmates since then. Thornton said the department
also is conducting its own investigation.


Martinez did not immediately return an emailed request for comment left with Thornton.


Robert Kahane, executive officer of the
California Board of Psychology, said Martinez's license currently is
valid. However, "we are working diligently to ensure immediate and
continued consumer protection as quickly as possible," he said.
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Wow what a dumb bitch

Well said ^

blockhead.

what a dumbcuntface bitch.

I think this is funny as fuck.