Woman Sent to County Jail for Wrongfully Accusing Man of Attempted Rape, Kidnapping in Middletown

A 20-year-old woman was sentenced on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, to 45 days to 23 months in Bucks County Correctional Facility for filing a false police report claiming she was an attempted kidnapping, rape victim in the parking lot of the Redner’s in Middletown Township last year that led to a Bucks County man spending a month in jail. 

Anjela Borisova Urumova’s lies led to an innocent man being jailed for a month.

Urumova, of Bristol Township, pled guilty in January to seven misdemeanor counts: one count each of false alarm to an agency of public safety and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, two counts of false reports and three counts of unsworn falsification to authorities.

In addition to the county jail sentence, Common Pleas Judge Stephen A. Corr sentenced the defendant to one year of probation, and ordered her to undergo a mental health evaluation, have no contact with the victim or his family and pay $3,600 in restitution to the victim.

“Not only did this targeted false report impact the victim and his family in unimaginable ways, but there is also a profound ripple effect,” District Attorney Jennifer Schorn said. “A crime like this can shatter the community’s confidence in the system. It can jeopardize prosecutions of legitimate crimes of sexual violence.”

“The prosecution and sentence of this defendant for a malicious false report demonstrates that this will not be tolerated.”

The victim was in court for the sentencing, sitting with his wife and mother. Chief Deputy District Attorney Kristin M. McElroy said they did not wish to give any statements because the case was still too emotional for them.

McElroy said this was not the typical false reports case. “In this case, she targeted an innocent man and accused him of one of the worst crimes a person can be accused of.”

Both McElroy and Judge Corr thanked detectives for continuing to investigate the case, leading to the discovery of the false accusation by the defendant.

“I’m incredibly grateful for the work that law enforcement did in this case to get down to what happened, but it can’t change the fact that a man spent 31 days sleeping in a cell for a crime he didn’t commit,” McElroy said.

Additionally, the victim’s children had to watch their father be arrested and the entire family was involved in trying to defend his innocence because of the defendant’s lies, McElroy said.

After the defendant’s false accusations, the victim was charged with multiple felony offenses and remained incarcerated for a total of 31 days before the investigation concluded that the defendant had lied. The wrongfully accused man was freed, and charges against him were withdrawn.

As part of the investigation, Middletown Township Police collected and reviewed available surveillance videos from multiple retailers in the area of the reported attack, and a detective with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office conducted a forensic review of the defendant’s cellphone data.

The review led to the discovery of multiple inconsistencies and contradictory information with the defendant’s account of the attack at the Redner’s parking lot.

After detectives confronted her with the findings of their investigation, she admitted she lied about the entire incident and that no assault occurred in the Redner’s parking lot on April 16.

McElroy said she hopes the case doesn’t impact real sexual assault victims from coming forward. She said research suggests that very few women make false reports like the one the defendant committed.

“To any woman who is sexually assaulted, we encourage them to come forward to law enforcement, even if they don’t know what they want to see happen or if they would want the case to be prosecuted,” she said.

“It should be documented, investigated and they should be heard, and they shouldn’t be silenced with fear when they see things like this.” “It just makes this case all that more egregious that this woman claimed to be a victim and used the system, I don’t even know for what purpose, used this system to target a man she didn’t know. I would hope that it doesn’t have a chilling effect on women, but it is a concern.”

This case was investigated by Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and the Middletown Township Police Department and was prosecuted by Chief Deputy District Attorney Kristin M. McElroy.