New details have been released in a case of alleged retaliation. A Brevard County woman was sentenced for claiming a man molested a child.Those allegations ruined his life and prosecutors said she made the whole story up, for revenge. "You destroyed the life of an innocent man and an innocent child," a judge said Thursday.Defendent Dana Loyd sobbed as she was sent a searing message from the judge's bench. A jury recently found Loyd guilty of lying about serious allegations. She told state and local investigators a man molested a girl in the elementary class she teaches, but investigators learned Loyd didn't work at the school. It was all a lie that Loyd allegedly spread to the man's employer, the organization where he volunteered as a soccer coach and countless other strangers online.The man, too, had harsh words for Loyd and others who humiliated him."The only goal of this is to tarnish my reputation and continue the cowardice of online social media abusers who have nothing in their sorry lives to (do other than) continue to take people down," the victim said.The girl identified as a victim wrote a letter to the judge, asking for a stern sentence. The judge, rejecting a recommendation of probation, ordered Loyd to serve a year in jail. The sentence was intended "to get your attention and let you know what it feels like to be, perhaps, embarrassed, perhaps uncomfortable, perhaps humiliated," the judge said.Loyd was also ordered to serve probation after jail and to never again post about the case online. It's unclear why she made the allegations against the man in the first place.

New details have been released in a case of alleged retaliation.

A Brevard County woman was sentenced for claiming a man molested a child.


Those allegations ruined his life and prosecutors said she made the whole story up, for revenge.

"You destroyed the life of an innocent man and an innocent child," a judge said Thursday.

Defendent Dana Loyd sobbed as she was sent a searing message from the judge's bench.

A jury recently found Loyd guilty of lying about serious allegations. She told state and local investigators a man molested a girl in the elementary class she teaches, but investigators learned Loyd didn't work at the school.

It was all a lie that Loyd allegedly spread to the man's employer, the organization where he volunteered as a soccer coach and countless other strangers online.

The man, too, had harsh words for Loyd and others who humiliated him.

"The only goal of this is to tarnish my reputation and continue the cowardice of online social media abusers who have nothing in their sorry lives to (do other than) continue to take people down," the victim said.

The girl identified as a victim wrote a letter to the judge, asking for a stern sentence. The judge, rejecting a recommendation of probation, ordered Loyd to serve a year in jail.

The sentence was intended "to get your attention and let you know what it feels like to be, perhaps, embarrassed, perhaps uncomfortable, perhaps humiliated," the judge said.

Loyd was also ordered to serve probation after jail and to never again post about the case online.

It's unclear why she made the allegations against the man in the first place.