A grand jury has voted to indict a woman whose lies about being "raped" sent an innocent man to prison for four years, The Post has learned.
The perjury indictment against Biurny Peguero Gonzalez will be unsealed today at her arraignment hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court, according to a knowledgeable source.
Gonzalez was 22 years old in 2005, when she told cops she'd been gang-raped at knife point by carpenter William McCaffrey and two of his friends in upper Manhattan.
But in March, she admitted the story was just a hoax, crafted after her friends got angry at her for leaving them and hanging out with the three men.Full story here
The married mother of two came forward despite the consequences for her young family, because "every night she would cry, and she was not at peace with herself" over what she'd done, Assistant District Attorney Evan Krutoy wrote in court filings concerning the McCaffrey dismissal.
Gonzales first confessed her lies to a priest in Union City, NJ, who then urged her to contact authorities.
McCaffrey, meanwhile, had pursued his own path to freedom while serving a 20-year prison term, arguing that bite marks on her arm -- which Gonzales had blamed on McCaffrey -- could not have been made by him, a claim borne out by new DNA evidence.
The carpenter has been free on bail, thanks to the new evidence, since Sept. 1. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Richard Carruthers has set Thursday as the day he will formally toss McCaffrey's indictment and conviction.
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