An 18-year-old IU freshman might face criminal charges for falsifying reports of two separate assaults of which she claimed to have recently been the victim, police said Friday.\nOfficers interviewed the woman early Friday afternoon in an attempt to account for more than 30 inconsistencies among her account of the incidents and interviews of others who were questioned relating to the case, an IU Police Department statement said. During the course of the interview the student admitted falsifying both reports, the report said. \nIUPD officers said they will forward the police report to the Monroe County Prosecutor for consideration of criminal charges to the student, the report said.\nAccording to police reports, in the first incident, the woman reported she was assaulted while walking past the volleyball courts near Foster Quad at about 9:15 p.m. Aug. 29. She claimed her attacker had approached her from the opposite direction before grabbing her from behind and threatening her with a pocketknife. She said she escaped and received a cut to her upper lip in the struggle.
In the second incident, police reports state the woman reported an acquaintance sexually assaulted her as she walked home in the early hours of Sept. 3 past the Wright Education building. She claimed the acquaintance followed her from Third Street before attacking her and forcing her to have sex with him. \nWhen police found the woman after the second reported attack, she had a puncture wound to the leg. According to the report she told the officers she normally carried a scalpel with her for protection, but that the attacker had taken it from her during the assault. \nOn Sept. 4, police interviewed the person she accused in the second report, according to the press release. \n"It is very unfortunate when this type of incident occurs and particularly in an academic community such as Indiana University," said IUPD Capt. Jerry Minger in a statement.
