Woman accused of allegedly pretending pregnancy with

A grand jury has accused a woman from Arizona for seven charges for serious crimes related to a “paternity scheme” in which he allegedly pretended a pregnancy with the star of the 26th season of “The Bachelor” Clayton Echard.

Maricopa County Prosecutor Rachel Mitchell announced on Tuesday the accusation of Laura Michelle Owens, saying that the Grand Jury had accused her of perjury, falsification, manipulation of evidence and carrying out a fraudulent scheme between May 2023 and June 2024.

Owens, who once filed a demand that seeks the maintenance of Echard’s children before saying that he had had a spontaneous abortion, is accused of altering an ultrasound image, making a pregnancy video and going to bed several times under oath.

Echard published a euphoric video to social networks when the news was learned.

“Finally, justice is served,” he said, adding: “This nightmare is over. I am very ready not to have to think about this … I have not been so happy. This is a weight of two years that my shoulders took my shoulders. He feels good.”

Owens issued a long statement claiming that the charges were influenced by an online movement of “Justice for Clayton” that directed a “coordinated harassment” campaign against her.

“These charges seem to be the product of intense public pressure, not an impartial judgment,” he said part of his statement. “They reflect a system that responded to online indignation, ignored the procedure protections and advanced depending on the narrative instead. It is difficult not to see them as part of a broader effort to discredit me, discourage me and give me an example of me.”

She argues that she did not pretend a pregnancy.

Owens’s accusation occurs almost a year after she lost her paternity demand against Echard, in which she said she had begotten her twins not born after one night’s position. Echard argues that the two had no sexual relations.

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The judge in the case said that Owens’s complaint was “premature at best. In the worst case, however, fraudulent and was made to incite communication, a relationship or both, with Echard.”

The court also supported the claims of Echard’s lawyers that Owens, the daughter of the radio legend of the radio of the San Francisco Bay, Ronn Owens, has tried such a scheme before, with the judge that says “has a pattern of similar behavior, if not identical, and judicial participation.”

An average account that seems to belong to Owens published a long direction in September by saying that Echard supporters “distorted my genuine efforts to find a path to continue with pregnancy, turning it in a narrative that was trying to ‘extort it’ to a relationship.”

Paternity demand, said the post, “would force Echard to present his own idea of ​​a schedule, see that the court encouraged joint custody so that children could have both parents in their lives, even if the relationship between those parents did not work, and also forced him to take a prenatal fatherhood test.”