Subhead: Anjela Borisova Urumova (Bucks County DA); Scene: The Redner’s supermarket parking lot where she falsely accused a man of attempting to rape and kidnap her last year (WPVI).

A Pennsylvania man endured a month in jail due to accusations that he tried to rape and kidnap a 20-year-old woman in a supermarket parking lot the previous year — only for it to come to light that the alleged victim had entirely fabricated the story. The accuser, Anjela Borisova Urumova, aged 20, now faces time behind bars herself for her accusations that could have upended the life of an innocent person, as authorities have disclosed.

As per a release from the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, Common Pleas Judge Stephen A. Corr on Tuesday sentenced Urumova to serve between 45 days and 23 months in a state correctional facility along with an additional year of probation. She is also obligated to complete a mental health evaluation and pay $3,600 in restitution to the victim, whom she is forbidden from contacting.

“Not only did this targeted false report impact the victim and his family in unimaginable ways, but there is also a profound ripple effect,” District Attorney Jennifer Schorn said in a statement following the sentencing hearing. “A crime like this can shatter the community’s confidence in the system. It can jeopardize prosecutions of legitimate crimes of sexual violence. The prosecution and sentence of this defendant for a malicious false report demonstrates that this will not be tolerated.”

Prosecutors said that the victim, Daniel Pierson, attended Tuesday’s proceedings along with his wife and mother, but they did not read a victim impact statement because the case was “still too emotional for them.”

As Law&Crime previously reported, Urumova in January formally pleaded guilty to seven criminal charges in connection with the fictitious story, including one count each of false alarm to an agency of public safety and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, two counts of false reports, and three counts of unsworn falsification to authorities.

Urumova on April 16, 2024, accused Pierson of attacking her outside of a Redner’s supermarket in Middleton Township, claiming the 41-year-old man pulled her pants down and struck her in the face. At the time she claimed to have been attacked, Urumova had a visible laceration on her lip.

“As part of the investigation, Middletown Township Police collected and reviewed available surveillance videos from multiple retailers in the area of the reported attack, and a detective with the DA’s office conducted a forensic review of Urumova’s cellphone data,” prosecutors previously said. “The review led to the discovery of multiple inconsistencies and contradictory information with Urumova’s account of the attack at the Redner’s parking lot.”