1989: New York woman Valerie Adams files her first false rape report.
1990: Valerie Adams files a false rape report at Rotterdam, New York.
May 3, 1991: At Schenectady, New York, Valerie Adams claims to have been raped at knifepoint, her third false rape allegation in three years. It was also third time unlucky for her, especially as her lies led to an innocent man being arrested and held for months.
Keith Rummer of Albany was arrested May 7 and released November 19, 1991. Rummer could well have been convicted because of his mental state; he was released only by chance when the authorities realised Adams had made two previous allegations. Adams recanted November 18, admitting she had consensual sex with someone else that night.
The article below was published in The Daily Gazette, January 23, 1992. It tells how she was indicted by a grand jury on January 22. On April 15, 1992, she pleaded guilty to first degree perjury. Just before she was about to be sentenced, she decided to fire her attorney, apparently unsatisfied with the plea bargain he had negotiated.
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