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Maybe the real crime is fraudulent accuser's light punishment

A female student falsely claimed she was raped

Photo credit: Newsday / Karen Wiles Stabile | A female student falsely claimed she was raped in a bathroom in Estabrook Hall, pictured, during a Hofstra campus party, the DA said. Four suspects were cleared of all charges and released from jail Wednesday night. (Sept. 15, 2009)

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She isn't being charged with any crime.

But is the woman in the Hofstra rape-allegation case actually getting a sterner dose of justice in the deal she cut on Friday with the Nassau district attorney's office? District Attorney Kathleen Rice says so.

Danmell Ndonye now admits she wasn't raped at all. She says that she had consensual sexual contact with four young men in a dorm bathroom...

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