SANTA CRUZ — A 20-year-old woman who falsely filed a rape report at UC Santa Cruz was sentenced to three years probation with limits on Internet access, a Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.

Morgan Triplett did not appear in court Thursday when Judge John Gallagher imposed the sentence. Triplett”s public defender Jack Lamar entered a no contest plea on her behalf.

She was sentenced to three years” probation, 60 days in jail or on work release, 200 hours of community service and 60 hours of mental health treatment, Gallagher ruled. She also was banned from using the Internet to facilitate criminal activity for the length of her probation and ordered to write a letter of apology to UC Santa Cruz. A fine of $710 also was imposed.

Prosecutor Johanna Schonfield initially asked that Triplett be banned from using social media during her probation since Triplett solicited her attacker through Craigslist.

“The court heard those discussions and ultimately sentenced her to what was appropriate. Some of those were,” Schonfield said.

Lamar declined to comment about the case.

Triplett reported being raped Feb. 17 while she was at UC Santa Cruz for a conference for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. Triplett had broken up with her boyfriend the day before and solicited people in two separate ads on Craigslist to harm her.

She received several replies, prosecutors said. She contacted one man who she met at UCSC”s campus. He agreed to physically beat her in exchange for sex, court records show. She suffered several bruises to her head and torso as a result.

After the man left, Triplett called 911 to report she was raped while at UCSC.

She was taken to Dominican Hospital for treatment. Investigators became suspicious when she declined to have her clothing taken for evidence and to allow DNA samples from her body to be sent for testing.

Less than two weeks after the report, UCSC police said the report was a hoax. Triplett admitted to fabricating the attack.

Schonfield wanted to make it clear Triplett”s false report was a rare instance.

“We just want to encourage real victims of sexual assaults to come forward,” Schonfield said. “We take those cases very seriously. I don”t want the public to get the impression women are running around calling rape all the time. This a very rare situation.”

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