One of the four University of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMass) women who claimed to have been the victim of an assault last month has now admitted that she made up the report, school officials said yesterday.
On Dec. 3 the student's lawyer submitted to police a signed statement that the cuts on her face were self-inflicted, said Jim Lyons, associate to the chief of university police.
Her claim was one of four rapes or assaults reported by female students at the university last month, a series of incidents that incited campus outrage and fear.
This student had told university police that a white male grabbed her in broad daylight on Nov. 16 and sliced her with a knife. Police found a bloody knife at the scene.
Lyons said no charges would be pressed.
"The district attorney's office has decided there's no law enforcement objective in prosecuting the woman," he said.
He added that police do not know why she falsified the report or wounded herself.
At the lawyer's request, the university declined to give the name of the woman or her lawyer. She is in her 30s and from Massachusetts, according to the Boston Globe.
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