Hickey-claiming woman sentenced to five days

A woman who claimed hickeys on her neck were actually marks left when her husband choked her will serve five days in jail.

The defendant, Ashley Ross, 19, was directed to serve five days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence on the charge of perjury. Her husband, who she admitted to making up the charges against, Matthew Alan Ross, still remains charged with domestic assault despite her about-face on her story.

Mr. Ross is set for hearing Feb. 6, at which time Mrs. Ross will be subpoenaed to testify under oath to settle once and for all which of her hickey stories is true, the one where she said the marks were bruises from domestic abuse in order to get her husband arrested, or the one where she recanted the first, saying the marks were hickeys, so charges would be dropped against her husband.

Mrs. Ross faces the jail time after police were summoned to the couple?s North High Street home to answer a domestic call. Once police arrived, Mrs. Ross reportedly pointed to marks on her neck, saying her husband had grabbed her by the throat during a fight and left the marks. Mr. Ross was then arrested because of the physical evidence and booked into the jail where he had to stay a mandatory 12 hours for a cooling off period.

However, Mrs. Ross called the jail later and changed her story, saying the marks were hickeys and that she had made up the story to get her husband in trouble. Upon learning she would be arrested for the lie, Mrs. Ross reportedly tried to change her story back to claim abuse, but then flip-flopped back to the hickey claim during further questioning.