A 25-year-old Stanford employee is facing charges that she lied about being raped twice on the campus last year, apparently in an effort to target a coworker, the Santa Clara County District Attorney said Wednesday.
Jennifer Gries, of Santa Clara, allegedly fabricated two attacks that she reported in August and October, each time describing her assailant as a Black man in his 20s, prosecutors said.
She also told an acquaintance that her attacker was a coworker who had sexually assaulted her, that she became pregnant with his twins, and that she had a miscarriage, prosecutors with the district attorney’s office alleged.
Prosecutors said that Gries was not pregnant at