{"id":114281,"date":"2021-01-31T12:20:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T17:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=114281"},"modified":"2021-01-31T12:27:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T17:27:02","slug":"she-falsely-claimed-a-verizon-store-employee-groped-her-a-court-just-upheld-her-lengthy-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/she-falsely-claimed-a-verizon-store-employee-groped-her-a-court-just-upheld-her-lengthy-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"She Falsely Claimed A Verizon Store Employee Groped Her. A Court Just Upheld Her Lengthy Sentence."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshe-falsely-claimed-a-verizon-store-employee-groped-her-a-court-just-upheld-her-lengthy-sentence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=114281&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On April 24, 2017, Karen McGagh entered a Verizon store in Towson, Maryland to repair her broken cell phone. Verizon store employee Glenn Trebay assisted McGagh by taking her to his desk to look over her account, where he discovered she had an outstanding balance preventing him from replacing her phone.<\/p>\n<p>For two hours Trebay worked with McGagh to resolve the issue by reaching out to different departments and trying to get things handled. Eventually, McGagh purchased a new phone and left the store.<\/p>\n<p>McGagh left the store and called Verizon to complain about her interactions with Trebay before calling the police and tell them that she found Trebay\u2019s \u201cbehavior disturbing,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcourts.gov\/data\/opinions\/coa\/2021\/12a20.pdf\">according to court documents<\/a>. Verizon responded to her complaint by telling Trebay not to come into work the next. He was eventually fired.<\/p>\n<p>McGagh also claimed that Trebay \u201cattempted to sell her non-Verizon items, including a Fitbit, a watch, and a cashmere sweater, and that he allegedly stored these unsanctioned items in his car.\u201d She also testified that he smelled like he had been drinking and at one point held her SIM card and said jokingly, \u201cI\u2019ve got your life in my hands now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGagh further alleged that during the encounter, Trebay cupped her breast and touched her inner thigh. She claimed she tried to get the attention of another store employee, who she alleged told her that Trebay was usually worse around young women.<\/p>\n<p>Trebay, on the other hand, said that McGagh was initially distraught and became more agitated by the fact that he couldn\u2019t repair her phone or quickly replace it. Trebay testified that there \u201cwas a distance between us\u2026 the entire time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video from the store showed the truth. While Trebay did spend a lot of the two-hour encounter sitting next to McGagh so that she could view his work tablet, and that at various points he touched her shoulder, elbow, and the back of her arm, along with a final handshake when she left, the video otherwise corroborated Trebay\u2019s story and not McGagh\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>McGagh would go on to file a sworn Application for Statement of Charges against Trebay for allegedly sexually assaulting her, court documents show. In this statement, she also claimed Trebay called her at home and that she was worried he would assault her again. She signed the document, which stated that \u201cunder the penalties of perjury that the contents of this Application are true to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trebay was arrested based on McGagh\u2019s claims. During the bench trial, prosecutors provided surveillance video from the Verizon store that showed Trebay did not touch McGagh like she claimed. When asked about the discrepancy, McGagh claimed she used the wrong words to describe the touch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was trying to, I was, I used the wrong word. I was confused, I used the wrong word, you know, is, you could, is it a cup, is it a feel, is it a brush, is it a touch, it\u2019s that sort of, you know, you know it\u2019s different than an elderly man, you know it\u2019s different, you know you feel violated, you know you feel, you know that it\u2019s not okay. You know that there is a power, he\u2019s got my phone, he\u2019s got pictures of my nieces, he\u2019s got pictures of my&#8230;\u201d she said before was interrupted by the judge.<\/p>\n<p>The judge asked McGagh to show where on the surveillance any sort of touching \u2013 brushing or otherwise \u2013 to her breast occurred and where Trebay touched her thigh.<\/p>\n<p>The judge also asked about discrepancies in what McGagh told Verizon about Trebay\u2019s behavior and what she told police.<\/p>\n<p>McGagh was then convicted of perjury and giving a false statement to police. The judge said that she had never seen a case like this, \u201cnever seen a pre-sentence investigation like this or a psyche evaluation like this.\u201d The judge further commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>[T]his would include her history of deceitfulness, consistent irresponsibility to honor financial obligations and lack of remorse. . . . During this investigation, she continued to make statements minimizing her own actions and instead, blaming the victim, the Judge and her own attorney. . . . [T]he pre-sentence investigation, again, . . . indicates that it\u2019s been suspected that Ms. McGagh continues to drive on a suspended license. I was shocked by the number of just traffic violations, just a, just a consistent unrelenting inability or disregard [] for the law. As though it just does not apply to her . . . Ms. McGagh has been involved in criminal and traffic proceedings in which she has benefited from lenient dispositions. Regardless of these privileges, she has continued to avoid hearings by numerous failing to appears and not fulfilling her financial obligations in paying fines and costs, as well as financial liens against her.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McGagh was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the perjury charge (with eight of those years suspended) and five years\u2019 supervised probation. For the false police statement charge, she received six months in prison. Maryland\u2019s high court upheld that conviction on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 24, 2017, Karen McGagh entered a Verizon store in Towson, Maryland to repair her broken cell phone. 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