The notorious “Girl who Cried Rape” — now prison-bound for perjury — would have let her victim rot behind bars if she’d known she was pregnant when she first recanted, according to court papers.
Biurny Peguero Gonzalez would never have told a Union City priest last February that she’d framed an innocent man if she’d known at the moment she sat in the confessional that she and her husband were going to have a baby, the papers say she told investigators.
“She said that had she been aware of her pregnancy, she probably would not have confessed when she did,” the papers, part of a prosecution filing, said. The baby boy was born three months ago, the second of her two children.
Gonzalez, 27, did find out she was pregnant soon after confessing to her priest a year ago. Weeks went by as she tried to wiggle out of the confession — even at one point lying that she’d lost the phone number after the priest kept urging her to call a lawyer.
When she did finally call civil and criminal lawyer Paul Callan, it was from a church phone, with the priest watching to be sure she finished the job.
Had she not confessed, William McCaffrey, 33, who served four years on her say-so, would likely have finished out his 20-year sentence.