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Allegations of Sexual
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A man spent 11 days in custody accused
of sexual violation after his partner made bogus allegations to police. In the Christchurch District
Court, Yvonne Bernadette Dodd, 25, a weighbridge operator, admitted making a false
statement of crime. A police summary of facts said
that on August 4, Dodd told Christchurch Hospital doctors she had been
sexually assaulted, and a forensic medical examination was done. Police searched her partner's home
. Dodd told police she got into an
argument with her partner on August 3 out of suspicion he was seeing someone
else. She alleged that on trying to leave the house, she was pulled on to a
bed, punched repeatedly in the face and forced to have sex. Her partner was charged with male
assaults female and sexual violation and remanded in custody for 11 days.
When granted bail, he was put on a strict curfew. On September 13, Dodd told police
she had invented the assault and had in fact consented to sex. She said she
made the allegations up to get her partner out of her life and win custody of
the children. Lawyer Glenn Henderson told the
court Dodd was a first offender, and there was no issue with repaying costs. Judge Colin Doherty sentenced Dodd
to 65 hours community work and ordered the $1497 cost of forensic
investigation to be repaid. |
