By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
A suicidal college student who claimed she was attacked and raped was charged with staging the incident by posting ads on Craigslist, calling for men to beat her up in exchange for sex. Morgan Triplett, 20, was charged with falsifying a police report after she told campus police at the University of California-Santa Cruz that she was on the grounds of the school looking for banana slugs in the forest when a stranger attacked and sexually assaulted her. Now she is being criminally charged for lying about the circumstances of her attack, after police spent nearly two weeks investigating only to find out that she arranged for a man to beat her in exchange for sex.
Triplett, a UC-Santa Barbara student who was visiting UC-Santa Cruz for a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender conference at the time of the incident on February 17, had bruises on her head and torso when she reported the alleged rape to campus police. The claims were given even more credence by the fact that there had been another attack near the campus just days earlier when a UC-Santa Cruz student was robbed and shot in the head while waiting for a bus.
According to the local Patch, Triplett posted two ads to Craigslist on February 15, the day prior to attending the UCSC conference. The first ad called for someone to shoot her in the shoulder with a small caliber gun. The second wanted someone to punch, kick and bruise her. Both situations would be done in exchange for sex, and she wrote 'no charges would be filed' against anyone who responded.
'The second ad, which ultimately was the one responded to, was seeking someone with a strong hand to inflict punches, bruises and kicks and compensation was to be provided with sex,' Ms Schonfeld said outside court. 'Several people responded to the ad.'
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UC Santa Barbara student posted CL ads for sex before filing a false rape report (With Pictures)
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