Spending a year in jail for no reason The couple as classmates in college in 2007 and became lovers since February last year. The man was angered by his girlfriend meeting up with other men for drinks and eventually resorted to physical abuse. The woman later charged her boyfriend with sexual assault at knifepoint. He denied the charges but the court found him guilty and sentenced him to five years in prison. Then something strange happened. Last March, the woman posted a message on Facebook, saying that she made false charges because she could no longer bear being vocally and physically abused. In the appeals court, she told judges that she heard voices that threatened to kill her if she did not post the message on Facebook, throwing the court into confusion. The presiding judge of the appellate court ordered all evidence to be reviewed, following which he reduced the sentence to one year jail-term suspended for two years. “There is sufficient evidence to believe that the woman is telling the truth about having made false charges,” the judge said. Still, the man had already spent nearly a year in jail.