ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. — A Colorado woman is experiencing serious consequences in the legal system after she attempted to get revenge on a city councilor and then attempted to avoid trial by allegedly fabricating a brain tumor claim.
On Tuesday, a jury convicted Robin Niceta of a felony for filing a bogus child abuse claim against Danielle Jurinsky in 2022. Jurinsky is a member of the Aurora City Council.
The call Niceta made to a child abuse hotline prompted an investigation into Jurinsky, which found no wrongdoing.
“You don't ever involve someone else's children. I don't care what your issue is. How mad you are at somebody. You do not involve somebody's child, ever,” Jurinsky said of Niceta after Tuesday’s conviction.
Prosecutors alleged Niceta sought revenge after Jurinksy called Niceta’s then-girlfriend “trash” on a local radio station. Niceta was dating former Chief of Police Vanessa Wilson at the time, in early 2022.
This week, prosecutors successfully convinced a jury that Niceta made the hotline call with her own personal cellphone by showing phone company records and using testimony from a computer forensic expert. Niceta googled information about Jurinsky just before making the false child abuse claim, according to prosecutors.
During the course of her criminal case this past year, prosecutors also allege Niceta tried to fool her attorney and the courts that she was living with terminal brain cancer by fabricating medical records.
Prosecutors allege Niceta used MRI images that were downloaded on the internet and created medical records to make it seem like her terminal diagnosis came from a cancer clinic in New Mexico.
An investigator with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office testified this week that the clinic did not exist and neither did the address on the fabricated records.
Niceta is expected to be sentenced in January on her new felony conviction, which could land her in prison for up to six years.
She also has another court date next month over her indictment for the fabricated brain cancer claim. That court hearing is currently listed as a motions hearing.
Niceta’s mother is also criminally implicated in the brain cancer claim.
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