This Girl Lied She was Raped By Football Star and Got 1.5 Million USD While He Got 6 Years In Prison!

Former high school footballer, Brian Banks who was wrongfully accused of rape and sentenced to six years in prison asked the State of California to pay him $100 USD for every day he had spent behind bars according to the law. Banks was exonerated May, 2012 after his accuser, Wanetta Gibson, admitted she had made up the whole story of sexual assault in 2002 and had been reluctant to come forward because of a large settlement she received from the school district. Gibson had been worried it would affect her relationship with her two children, now aged four and five. Gibson and Banks met and she was caught on video saying there there had been no kidnap and no rape, and would help him clear his record. Yet she refused to repeat the story to prosecutors as she feared she would have to return a $1.5million payment she won after her mother brought a suit against Long Beach Schools.
She was quoted as telling Banks: 'I will go through with helping you but it's like at the same time all that money they gave us, I mean gave me, I don't want to have to pay it back.'

Brian Banks in tears after he was exonorated

He was on the way to the school office to talk about his college applications when he bumped into Gibson, a fellow student, and they went to a stairwell to make out. He pointed out that they did not have intercourse. He explained that Banks said something to upset Gibson and they parted on bad terms. She later accused him of kidnapping her, dragging her across the school and raping her in the stairwell. Investigators tested her but found no physical evidence of rape, Brooks said. Banks maintained they had not had sex and all sexual contact had been consensual. Yet his then lawyer encouraged the promising student to plead no contest to the kidnap and rape charges, warning Banks he could get 41 years to life in prison if convicted.
Expecting he would serve just 18 months instead, he followed the advice and pleaded no contest. He was in prison for six years. While there, his case was taken on by Brooks, a lawyer who head the California Innocence Project. Brooks said Banks has remained on probation under electronic monitoring, has had to register as a sex offender and has had trouble getting a job. After the exoneration Banks added: 'My only dream in the world is just to be free... For years, I felt like a toy with the switch cut off, sitting on the shelf.'
Banks continues to train for what he hopes will be a future chance at a football career in the NFL.