Editor’s note: In August 2017, the charges in this case were dismissed. Because of that, and in keeping with more recent guidelines in coverage of sexual crimes, the suspect’s name has been removed.

THOMASVILLE — A woman who told Thomas County Sheriff’s Office investigators on Christmas Eve she was raped by a teenage boy wound up being charged in the incident.

The woman, an 18-year-old college student, contacted the sheriff’s office about 8 p.m. Christmas Eve and said she had been raped by a 14-year-old boy.

“We conducted a forensic interview with her,” Lt. Tim Watkins, sheriff’s office chief investigator, said. The woman underwent a physical examination at an Albany facility when the exam could not be conducted in Thomasville on Christmas morning.

The teen boy was interviewed at the sheriff’s office. Also interviewed were the owners of the property where the alleged incident took place.

Said Watkins, “After interviewing the suspect, his interview was more truthful than the alleged victim’s.”

The boy and the woman were asked to take polygraphs at the Thomasville Georgia Bureau of Investigation office.

“She admitted she had not been raped and that she had performed a sex act on the 14-year-old,” the investigator said. “They were at a mutual friend’s house.”

Watkins said the woman and the boy had consumed alcoholic beverages at the time of the incident.

The woman was charged with child molestation, sodomy/aggravated sodomy and false statement/writings.

“She filed a false report,” Watkins explained. “We spent a lot of manhours chasing down a false allegation on Christmas Day.”

The woman was released from the Thomas County Jail on a $12,100 bond.

Senior reporter Patti Dozier can be reached at (229) 226-2400, ext. 1820