The Australian sheep farmer who was acquitted of drugging and raping a LI speech therapist is heading back to Australia...but not before he sues his accusers. Australian David Green says he plans to file a $1 million lawsuit against the two women whose false accusations of date rape led to him spending more than a year and a half in Rikers. "They took 18 months from me," he told reporters today as he left Manhattan Supreme Court.
As for why the now 28-year-old Elizabeth Roarke might have made the accusation, Green thinks it was out of fear: "She had a boyfriend at the time. She was supposed to be sleeping at a friend's. She had issues with cocaine and alcohol. I think she woke up where she shouldn't have been, confused, and concocted a story. And I was her scapegoat." Roarke's credibility was undermined during the course of the trial as she admitted to having six or seven drinks that night, and had begun therapy in the months before the incident due to her use of alcohol, ecstasy, pot and cocaine. Green was for sentenced to one year in jail for drunkenly throwing beer bottles off the Hotel Affina's roof on the morning of the incident; but that sentence was written off as time served, leaving Green free to go back to Australia. Now we can turn our attention back to Mrs. Bencours, one of our patients who thinks she's a sheep:
