PORT HUENEME : No Charges Will Be Filed in Rape Hoax

A 24-year-old woman who lied about being raped in Port Hueneme as an excuse for missing work will not be charged with filing a false police report, officials said Tuesday.

The Port Hueneme Police Department has decided against prosecuting Jacqueline Morgan and also will not seek restitution for 100 hours spent investigating the case, said Sgt. Dennis Fitzgerald.

“Given her position and situation, I don’t feel there would be any useful purpose to go further with this,” Fitzgerald said. “Here’s an unemployed single mom with a small child, so what are you going to gain?”

Morgan, a former Oxnard resident who now lives in Oceanside, told police that she was abducted from behind a Port Hueneme hair salon on April 3, and raped and sodomized during 27 hours of captivity.

Detectives confronted her this weekend with inconsistencies in her story, and Morgan admitted that she made up the elaborate hoax as an excuse for missing work at the Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, Fitzgerald said. She had spent the time with her boyfriend in San Diego, he said.

Morgan, a divorced mother of a 2-year-old girl, resigned in May from her job monitoring vital signs in the hospital’s critical care unit and now lives with her boyfriend, Fitzgerald said.