Angered over the treatment of her daughter, she makes up claims of sexual abuse, hit and run, and other false charges. One has to wonder how she thought this would help?
False allegations merit 2 1/2 years in prison.
JOLIET--(ENEWSPF)--September 19, 2009. Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow announced that a Naperville woman who wrote a series of anonymous letters that threatened and frightened Naperville School District 203 officials has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.
Rita Mueller, 50, was found guilty in February of disorderly conduct. In 2005, Mueller sent an anonymous letter to the principal of B.J. Ward Elementary School in Bolingbrook falsely alleging that a student at the school was being sexually abused by her father. The student was the daughter of a Naperville School District employee.
The one-count bill of indictment, handed up in August 2007, alleged that Mueller knew the principal was mandated by law to report the accusations to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, which launched an investigation that eventually cleared the father of the false allegations.
Associate Judge Edward Burmila sentenced Mueller Friday morning and ordered her taken into custody immediately by Will County Sheriff’s Police.
Throughout 2005 and 2006, Mueller embarked on a bizarre and abusive anonymous letter-writing campaign that targeted a variety of Naperville School District officials. She admitted to police that she sent a package containing feces to one school official and what appeared to be a used condom to another.
She admitted to sending another anonymous letter to a local newspaper falsely alleging that a school administrator’s daughter was involved in a hit-and-run collision. The letter sparked a police investigation that eventually cleared the administrator’s daughter.
One Naperville school received anonymous letters falsely alleging that an athletic coach had promised to swim naked in a pool if the team performed well at a meet.
Another letter to a school social worker stated that the anonymous writer had a premonition that the social worker’s children were going to die in a fire and that the writer’s premonitions always come true. And she sent a sympathy card to another school official regarding the deaths of her two children when, in fact, the children were alive.
“Rita Mueller is going to prison because of her reckless disregard for the reputations of both adults and children,” State’s Attorney Glasgow said. “Her false allegations were sinister and depraved. These are the kinds of accusations that can ruin careers and lives.”
Before handing down the prison sentence, which was only six months less than the maximum penalty of three years, Judge Burmila said Mueller literally “terrorized” the targeted school officials.
Mueller’s campaign was sparked by her belief that school officials had been unfair in their treatment of her own daughter, who was a student in the district.
Assistant State’s Attorneys Mary Fillipitch and Colleen Griffin secured the guilty verdict in February. They also presented testimony regarding the letters and Mueller’s admissions during a sentencing hearing that began in August and concluded Friday.
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Nice to know that she won't have to register as a sex offender.
This lady can move in right next door to you and change her name also and you would never know about it.
But a guy that peed in public would be forbidden to even have a facebook account.
True. This woman can (after her release) find a man to marry ,take his surname, and carry on with her life without suffering the same fate that male sex offenders are forced to endure.
Things that make you go hmmmmm.
Alleged MTSU Rape Victim Can't Remember Nights Events
By Nicole Ferguson
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Middle Tennessee State University police are trying to piece together an alleged rape on campus, but they are facing many challenges.
The 21-year-old student who reported the rape said she can not remember a 9 hour period, from 9:00 p.m. Thursday to 6:00 a.m. Friday.
"She doesn't know what happened, who she was with, where she was, any of that kind of thing," said MTSU police chief Buddy Peaster"
"The alleged victim said she woke up the next morning on Greek Row, fully clothed, and believed she'd been raped".
http://www.newschannel5.com/global/story.asp?s=11644250
There is also this (how predictable)
"It'd be nice if we had a suspect we could send in along with comparisons, so TBI could do that, but we have what we have and we'll do the best we can," said Peaster".
Anon,
Thanks for the link, and I would agree that it sounds like a case of a blackout due to excessive drinking. I don't know how this young woman came up with the idea she had been raped (would be nice if the article stated it), but that one falls into the unkown category. We'll keep an eye on it, and when the blood test and rape kit results come in, we'll see what happens.
Contrary to what some believe, until police determine that it is false, we can't classify it as such. Even if evidence suggests otherwise.
That last quote is a doozy. They interviewed both the boyfriend and a friend, and there are inconsistencies, makes it a wait and see case.
You are welcome Archivist.
From linked article - "The alleged victim said she woke up the next morning on Greek Row, fully clothed, and believed she'd been raped".
I agree with Steven that this is like numerous other instances in which there is no clear "proof" of an FRA.
Yet, as he also notes, one has to wonder just what leads this woman to believe that she’d been rape – or that she had even had sex, perhaps consensual?
Given the recent refutation of the myth of common use of “date rape drugs”, one also has to wonder if this isn’t just another case of a woman using such an excuse to cover for her own chosen bad behaviors – excessive drinking, drug use, and/or consensual sexual activities.
Also, what sort of friend allows another to leave a bar with no idea of who it is that they are leaving with, and some information about where they are going.
Given so many instance where police and university officials don’t act prudently in similar cases, I think it is worth noting that the Middle Tennessee State University Police are waiting to see where the investigation leads before acting as if a rape has definitely occurred. Contrast that with the way police in Greenville County, SC handled another claim which turned out to be false – BTW, very nice analysis of the police behaviors in that thread, How lying women use the police and news media to do their will.
"Given the recent refutation of the myth of common use of “date rape drugs”, one also has to wonder if this isn’t just another case of a woman using such an excuse to cover for her own chosen bad behaviors – excessive drinking, drug use, and/or consensual sexual activities."
One should presume this to be the case, until some evidence that a crime has been committed is provided.
Her word alone is obviously not admissible as evidence.
Her word alone is obviously not admissible as evidence.
I would really like to believe that her word wouldn't be sufficient, but we have run several cases where her word WAS sufficient.
Let's be honest, as Fidelbogen over at The Counter-Feminist, The Kevin Driscoll case may still be refiled. Never mind that the most damning evidence that the prosecution has is HER word. All of the physical evidence shows exactly the opposite, and yet they still went to trial. It resulted in a hung jury (how it wasn't a not guilty, I don't know), and he is still under house arrest, and the prosecution is still deciding on whether to retry Kevin.
Sick.
Hm, I meant her word alone is obviously not admissible as evidence if we're taking things seriously - thanks to sites like these.
I was thinking of how things should be, rather than how they are.
Agreed Snark,
It goes to show, just how seriously LE take claims of rape. They are willing to interrogate, arrest, charge and prosecute someone, with no physical evidence (or even evidence that counters the charge), just the claim by someone (usually female) that they were raped (usually by someone male).
This is the ONLY crime, that I am aware of, that this is the case. We need to bring back the necessity of corroborating evidence in ALL cases.
Justice demands it.
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