A North Texas woman who lied to authorities about being abducted and raped by several black men last year has been sentenced to deferred-adjudication probation.

Breana Rachelle Harmon ((Denison Police Department))

A Grayson County judge sentenced 19-year-old Breana Rachelle Harmon of Denison on Tuesday. Harmon pleaded guilty last month to two counts of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and two counts of tampering with government records.

If Harmon abides by the conditions of her probation for eight years, she will not have a felony conviction on her record. She must also repay more than $8,000 that Denison police used to investigate the case, pay a $2,000 fine and perform 160 hours of community service, the Sherman Herald Democrat reported.

During Tuesday's sentencing hearing, Harmon testified that a felony conviction would keep her from eventually becoming a nurse. She also said she suffered from depression at the time of the incident and she apologized to the community and to police.

"I don't think there is any question that she was going through an extreme emotional experience," her attorney, Bob Jarvis, told the newspaper. "The judge listened to all of the evidence and made the decision."

Harmon, bloody and wearing just a shirt and undergarments, ran into a church last March and said that three black men in ski masks kidnapped her. She told police one of them held her down while the other two raped her and that they cut her with a knife when she tried to flee.

Police quickly began to doubt her story, noting inconsistencies with the physical evidence and that medical workers said there was no sign she had been raped.

"The puzzle pieces just weren't coming together," Denison Police Chief Jay Burch said at the time.

Two weeks later, Harmon admitted she'd made the whole thing up. Because of trouble with her relationship, she told police, she cut her clothes and herself, then concocted the abduction story so that her family wouldn't be mad at her.

Harmon said Tuesday that she didn't know why her story included the detail that the three men were black, the Herald Democrat reported. Her therapist testified that she does not appear to be racist and sincerely regrets the incident.

Harmon was first charged with a misdemeanor count of making a false report, but Grayson County's district attorney decided that her actions warranted the more serious charges.