ShyGuyInChicago
February 3rd, 2011, 03:06 PM
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/02/nun-allegedly-made-up-rape-story-to-cover-affair-with-bodega-wor/
A nun with a small Christian sect has allegedly confessed that she made up a story about being raped to cover up an affair with a convenience store worker she had sneaked into the convent, the New York Daily News reported.
The nun, identified as Mary Turcotte, 26, originally told police she had been attacked by a stranger on Jan. 22 as she walked on Glenwood Avenue in Brooklyn.
Police sources told the newspaper that Turcotte, who is white, said she was attacked and choked into unconsciousness by a 40- to 50-year-old black man. When she came to, she was seminude and lying in a snow bank about eight blocks from where the attack occurred, she reportedly told police.
She later admitted to police that she made the whole thing up to cover her tracks after bringing a bodega worker into the convent for consensual sex, the Daily News said.
Turcotte is a member of the Apostles of Infinite Love convent, a fringe Christian sect that has no affiliation with the Catholic Church, the newspaper said.
"Nothing happened; none of it," a woman who answered the door at the convent told the Daily News. "It was all proven to be false. It wasn't her fault. She is going to move out and we are going to get her some help."
The case is eerily similar to the one involving WABC's Heidi Jones. The 37-year-old New York City meteorologist and occasional forecaster on "Good Morning America" went to police on Dec. 1 and told them that a Hispanic man had attacked her while she was jogging. But Jones' story had inconsistencies, and she later admitted making the whole thing up, police said.
Jones has denied any wrongdoing. She is scheduled to appear in court next month on two misdemeanor counts of falsifying records. If convicted, she could be sentenced to up to a year in jail.
The New York Police Department said it was not clear whether charges would be filed against Turcotte.
"It is still an ongoing investigation," NYPD spokesman Sgt. Kevin Hayes told AOL News.
Victims' advocates say false rape claims are extremely rare. RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, says one in six women and one in 33 men will be sexually assaulted within their lifetime.
A nun with a small Christian sect has allegedly confessed that she made up a story about being raped to cover up an affair with a convenience store worker she had sneaked into the convent, the New York Daily News reported.
The nun, identified as Mary Turcotte, 26, originally told police she had been attacked by a stranger on Jan. 22 as she walked on Glenwood Avenue in Brooklyn.
Police sources told the newspaper that Turcotte, who is white, said she was attacked and choked into unconsciousness by a 40- to 50-year-old black man. When she came to, she was seminude and lying in a snow bank about eight blocks from where the attack occurred, she reportedly told police.
She later admitted to police that she made the whole thing up to cover her tracks after bringing a bodega worker into the convent for consensual sex, the Daily News said.
Turcotte is a member of the Apostles of Infinite Love convent, a fringe Christian sect that has no affiliation with the Catholic Church, the newspaper said.
"Nothing happened; none of it," a woman who answered the door at the convent told the Daily News. "It was all proven to be false. It wasn't her fault. She is going to move out and we are going to get her some help."
The case is eerily similar to the one involving WABC's Heidi Jones. The 37-year-old New York City meteorologist and occasional forecaster on "Good Morning America" went to police on Dec. 1 and told them that a Hispanic man had attacked her while she was jogging. But Jones' story had inconsistencies, and she later admitted making the whole thing up, police said.
Jones has denied any wrongdoing. She is scheduled to appear in court next month on two misdemeanor counts of falsifying records. If convicted, she could be sentenced to up to a year in jail.
The New York Police Department said it was not clear whether charges would be filed against Turcotte.
"It is still an ongoing investigation," NYPD spokesman Sgt. Kevin Hayes told AOL News.
Victims' advocates say false rape claims are extremely rare. RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, says one in six women and one in 33 men will be sexually assaulted within their lifetime.