
- Jennifer Ann Gries Stanford’s photo after her arrest has not yet been shared by authorities.
- Jennifer is a 25-year-old employee of the esteemed Stanford University.
- She made headlines after making false claims that she had been on campus twice in one year.
Jennifer is a 25-year-old employee of the esteemed Stanford University. She made headlines after making false claims that she had been on campus twice in one year.
Six months after she filed her first claim, Jennifer’s lies were discovered and authorities arrested her on Wednesday, March 15, 2023.
She was charged with perjury for allegedly lying about being caught on campus twice last year.
Jennifer Ann Gries, of Santa Clara, first reported a false sexual assault in August when she told a nurse at Valley Medical Center in San Jose that a man grabbed her while she was in a campus parking lot, dragged her to a restroom dragged, and sexually assaulted her.
In October, she went to Stanford Hospital for another r*pe exam.
She told the nurse who conducted the investigation that she was returning to her office after lunch when a man grabbed her by the arm, forced her into a basement storage closet and beat her.
Prosecutors said she denied talking to police on both occasions.
Both of Gries’ sexual assault research kits were quickly analyzed because the claims she made posed a major risk to the safety of young women.
Prosecutors in Jennifer’s case said the lab results were inconsistent with her reports of assault.
On both occasions, prosecutors said she signed a consent form acknowledging that the nurse was a mandated reporter who was required to notify law enforcement of the attack and signed forms to obtain public funds.
At the beginning of this year, Gries admitted to lying about the r*pes during an interview with the detective of the Public Prosecution Service.
She also reportedly wrote an apology letter to the man who was the target of her false claims.
“She stated she was angry with the victim because she felt he had given her ‘false intent’ and turned her friends against her,” the prosecutors said.
Gries was charged with two counts of perjury and two counts of making a false crime report to nurses at two different hospitals.
Stanford has sent Gries on leave and the university “will review her job”.
“These false reports are damaging both to real survivors of sexual assault and to those members of our community who have experienced fear and alarm from the reports,” said the university.