A Texas teenager is facing felony charges after falsely claiming three black men kidnapped her before raping her in March.
Breana Harmon, 19, told police that she was raped by two men while a third man held her down. She later confessed that nothing she had said was true.
At first, she said she was taken into the woods and raped by men in ski masks. They threatened to assault her again as well. Harmon had run into a church wearing nothing but a shirt, bra and underwear.
During the investigation, investigators found that the cuts on her jeans didn’t match those on her legs and the nurse who examined her did not find any evidence of sexual assault.
Later in March she admitted that “things from her past started going through her head” and she had “began cutting herself and her jeans,” and because she didn’t want her mother to know she was cutting, she made up the assault story.
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The teen had a fiancé at the time of the incident. Samuel Hollingsworth had given Harmon pepper spray and a pocket knife that same day she reported her attack. Harmon had explained to him that she had heard about sex trafficking in the area.
Hollingsworth and Harmon are no longer together.
“Really, all I can say is I don’t want any involvement with her at all,” he said. “I just want to move on with my life. That part of my life is dead to me.”
While Harmon was initially only charged with a misdemeanor, that has changed and she is now charged with felonies. She has been accused of tampering with physical evidence and tampering with a government record.
“The more we have looked at what happened in this case, and considered the harm it caused, and certainly could have caused, we believe what she did fits these higher charges,” Grayson County District Attorney Joe Brown said in a statement. “What she did was very serious, and we believe it was felony conduct.”
She is facing up to 10 years in prison.
