UPDATE:  The suspect plead guilty and was sentenced to 127 days in jail.  Hopefully, this will be enough time to dissuade her from extortion as a full time vocation in the future.  Read the update here.

This is a story we don’t see much of though I suspect it happens frequently, especially in child custody cases.  This dunce sent text messages AFTER going to police, leaving a nice little evidence trail behind.  This has got to be an extreme example of one of the dangers of internet dating.

Read the entire story at the OC Register:

Oh Susanna, don't you cry for me! Courtesy of the OC Register.

Oh Susanna, don't you cry for me! Courtesy of the OC Register.

A woman is set to be charged this afternoon with trying to extort a man she falsely accused of rape.

Susanna Maria Coetzee, 28, of Newport Beach is to be charged in North Justice Center with trying to extort $15,000 from a man she met online, and falsely telling police he raped her.

Coetzee faces a felony count of attempting to extort and a misdemeanor count of falsely reporting a crime, and faces three years in prison if convicted. She is being held without bail on a probation violation for a DUI conviction.

Coetzee met a 37-year-old man on www.seekingarrangement.com, a Web site billed as “the elite sugar daddy dating site.”

The company defines sugar daddy as “a wealthy, usually older man who gives expensive gifts to a young person in return for intimacy or companionship.”

Coetzee met the man, whom prosecutors identified only as John Doe, for drinks on April 1, and afterward went to a hotel in Anaheim.

Prosecutors said that she began to have sex with the man, and then backed off and asked for a check. When he refused, she accused him of rape, and then started yelling that she had been raped, prosecutors said.

Security at the hotel called police. Coetzee filed a report saying that the man had pushed her to the bed, covered her face with a pillow to keep her from screaming, raped her and hit her on the head with the handset of the phone, prosecutors said.

Over the next two weeks, prosecutors said, Coetzee sent the man several dozen text messages in an attempt to get $15,000 from him in exchange for dropping her accusation…

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