Rape charges dropped after "victim" changes story for money

Shasta County, CA deputy district attorney Kelly Kafel dropped rape charges against nurse Susan Lynn Williams after the "victim" offered to change his story form over $5000. Before charges were dropped, Williams, 51, was charged with raping her then 28 year old roomate after he was passed out drunk.

Williams, who is reportedly working as a nurse in Colorado, had been charged with raping an unconscious victim, orally copulating an unconscious victim and sexual penetration of an unconscious victim with a foreign object, a vibrator.

Although initially she had been scheduled to appear in Superior Court on Tuesday to set a trial date, the matter was dismissed in court on March 6 by the district attorney's office, according to electronic court records.

A police investigative report made public after Williams was arraigned last summer said that Williams and her roommate were traveling nurses who at the time worked at Mercy Medical Center in Redding.

That report said that alleged victim and Williams had been drinking at the Bell Lounge and that he passed out on the couch when they returned to the Park Marina Drive trailer they shared.
He told police that he awoke on the floor to discover that his boxer shorts had been removed and that Williams was sitting on top of him naked, the report said.

Williams initially denied any type of sexual contact with the man, but later admitted to touching him, the report said.

Deputy District Attorney Kelly Kafel dropped charges against WIlliams because the alleged victim contacted WIlliam's defense attorney and offered to change his story for an amount in excess of $5000.

Redding defense attorney Michael Sharpe, who represented Williams, said Monday that the man contacted him about a month ago and offered to change his story for an amount in excess of $5,000.

"We didn't go into any actual figures, but it was a significant amount," he said, adding that he immediately contacted the district attorney's office to report the offer.

"I had an ethical obligation to call the D.A., which I did," he said.

Kafel said the information, which surfaced last month, was confirmed by prosecutors and led to the dropping of charges against Williams. Offering money kind of kills it," she said. No charges will be filed against the "victim" turned perpetrator.