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The woman who falsely accused football star Brian Banks of r@ping her is being forced to pay big time.  A judge has ordered that the woman pay $2.6 million to Banks for ruining his life with false allegations.  The lies caused him to lose numerous scholarship offers to college and also led to a prison sentence of over five years.

Wanetta Gibson told lies to authorities when she accused Banks of assaulting her when the two attended Long Beach Poly High, where Banks was both a student and football star.   After the conviction, the girl sued the school district and received $1.5 million.  The conviction was overturned when Gibson was secretly recorded admitting that she made the whole thing up.

Years later, Gibson confessed and Banks was released.  The woman is being forced to repay a $750,000 settlement to the school, plus attorneys fees, interest and another $1 million in punitive damages.

As a 16-year old junior, Banks had verbally committed to USC before his career was thrown off track.   During his time in prison, Banks said that he read every book he could get his hands on.

”It’s almost impossible to explain, the feeling of not having freedom, to be stripped away of your freedom, of your dignity, the respect you once had,” he said. ”To lose it all and watch the world pass you by as you sit inside a prison cell, knowing you shouldn’t be there, knowing you’re there because of another person’s lies, to lose it all and then get it all back, it’s a very humbling, spiritual feeling that you just don’t want to take anything for granted. read on from Dr. Boyce Watkins

Meanwhile, Banks is grinding it out at the Atlanta Falcons’ rookie camp!

 

False Rape Accuser Ordered to Pay Millions after Sending Him to Prison  was originally published on wzakcleveland.com