Nonstopdrivel
14 years ago

WABC weather gal in 'rape' lie: cops 
Heidi charged with making up assault tale

By JAMIE SCHRAM and LEONARD GREENE
Last Updated: 11:15 AM, December 15, 2010
Posted: 1:38 AM, December 15, 2010

[img_r]http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010/12/15/news/photos_stories/15.1n007.heidijones2--300x300.jpg[/img_r]Here's Heidi's forecast: Cloudy with a chance of deception.

WABC/Channel 7 weather babe Heidi Jones was arrested for perpetrating the ultimate snow job -- falsely claiming to cops that a man had tried to rape her while she was jogging in Central Park, sources said yesterday.
Jones, who anchors the station's weekend evening weather coverage and fills in on "Good Morning America," was charged Monday with filing a false report, a Class A misdemeanor. If convicted, she could face up to a year in jail or a $1,000 fine.

WABC will announce on its noon newscast today that it is suspending her indefinitely, a spokesman said. Sources indicated that the move is the first step toward firing her.

Jones spun a story that proved to be as unreliable as a five-day forecast, telling police last month that she was assaulted in September while pounding the pavement in the city's back yard, the sources said.

Jones, 37, told cops she was jogging in the park on the afternoon of Sept. 24 when a Hispanic man in his 30s or 40s grabbed her from behind, dragged her into a wooded area and attempted to rape her.

She told police that the would-be rapist was scared off by two passers-by who came to her aid.

But for cops, the story was all wet.

The first clue was that she waited until Nov. 24, two months later, to report the alleged attack, the sources said.

At the time, the sources said, she told police that three days earlier, on Nov. 21, the same man somehow found her again and harassed her, saying, "I know you went to the police."

After cops took her report, detectives conducted a lengthy investigation, canvassing the area for video and witnesses.

Coming up empty-handed, they went to talk to Jones again -- and noticed inconsistencies in her story, the sources said.

After being confronted with the discrepancies, Jones admitted that she had pulled the story out of thin air, the sources said.

Jones said she concocted the tale in a plea for sympathy to counter some unknown setback that she was experiencing in her personal life, the sources said.

But whatever that ordeal was, Jones has apparently hidden it well. Most of her public posts, on both Facebook and Twitter, have been bright and sunny for weeks.

In one upbeat tweet posted Nov. 21 -- the day she said she was harassed by her make-believe attacker -- she wrote: "Here is ur turkey day forecast! Gobble gobble!!"

She even remained upbeat as the cops closed in on her.

"You guys ready for the arctic chill?" she posted on her Facebook page Monday, the day she was arrested.

"Ready or not . . . it's going to be bitterly cold tomorrow and Wednesday, with highs sub freezing and a wind chill to make your toes shake! Be careful!"

Jones came to Channel 7 in 2005 from Houston.

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So if the police had decided to be dicks and railroad some poor guy who happened to fit the description, he would have been facing 30 years to life; but the woman who makes the false allegation faces up to a year or $1000. She would have faced the same penalty if she'd falsely accused someone of stealing her bike or a vase. The disparity is unbelievable.

Ladies, if you get sexually assaulted, don't wait to report it. Call the police and head for the hospital immediately. Don't go to the bathroom, don't take a shower, don't change your clothes. Spit the semen into a Ziploc bag and save it. And whatever you do, don't have consensual sex with the guy who supposedly raped you.

It's because women do stupid things like these that the conviction rate for sexual assault is so low. Never forget that if you choose to file a sexual assault complaint, it will be you, not the accused, who will really be on trial. Every detail of your life will be rummaged through and brought to light, and every effort will be made to destroy your credibility and portray you as a nasty slut. Consider carefully the potential consequences before you go off half-cocked against a guy who's pissed you off.
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Formo
14 years ago
Great post.
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TheEngineer
14 years ago


Jones said she concocted the tale in a plea for sympathy to counter some unknown setback that she was experiencing in her personal life, the sources said.

"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:



That about says it all.
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Cheesey
14 years ago
Wow.....i've had some rough times, but NEVER thought of making up a fake crime. Something is wrong upstairs with that woman.
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Cheesey
14 years ago
Wow.....i've had some rough times, but NEVER thought of making up a fake crime. Something is wrong upstairs with that woman.
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Pack93z
14 years ago
It is attention deprived "victims" like this that fuels some folks belief that no victim can be trusted and they all have some underlying self serving motive behind it.

Sure there are ladies/victims like this that exist and play the card.. doesn't mean that they all fall into this category. Case by case.. situation by situation and fact by fact that can be gathered. Non Had some very righteous and correct words at the end of his post.

I hope they prosecute her to the full letter of the law and thankfully she didn't identify someone directly to place them under false suspicion.

I guess the authority figure (Police) and the justice model worked correctly in this case, police didn't just go out and arrest someone falsely.
"The oranges are dry; the apples are mealy; and the papayas... I don't know what's going on with the papayas!"
dfosterf
14 years ago

In one upbeat tweet posted Nov. 21 -- the day she said she was harassed by her make-believe attacker -- she wrote: "Here is ur turkey day forecast! Gobble gobble!!"



I think anyone that tweets lame shit like that should be incarcerated.
Porforis
14 years ago

In one upbeat tweet posted Nov. 21 -- the day she said she was harassed by her make-believe attacker -- she wrote: "Here is ur turkey day forecast! Gobble gobble!!"

"dfosterf" wrote:



I think anyone that tweets lame shit like that should be incarcerated.



1 year for the false report, 5 years for "Gobble gobble!!", 6 months community service for "ur".
Nonstopdrivel
14 years ago

It is attention deprived "victims" like this that fuels some folks belief that no victim can be trusted and they all have some underlying self serving motive behind it.

"pack93z" wrote:



That's exactly why these stories bother me so much. There are genuine victims out there who cannot be heard because there is so often a presumption that they made the stories up. That's what breaks my heart.
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musccy
14 years ago

In one upbeat tweet posted Nov. 21 -- the day she said she was harassed by her make-believe attacker -- she wrote: "Here is ur turkey day forecast! Gobble gobble!!"

"dfosterf" wrote:



I think anyone that tweets lame shit like that should be incarcerated.


+1 for making me snicker
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