From the Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard
Assistant coach’s accuser says she lied
By Karen McCowan
The Register-Guard
HALSEY – A Springfield woman whose police complaint led to the arrest of a Central Linn High School assistant coach at a wrestling tournament two weekends ago has retracted her complaint and her petition for a restraining order against him, saying she fabricated the allegations.
Anjannette D. Kelly, 33, appeared in Lane County Circuit Court on Wednesday to seek “voluntary withdrawal and dismissal “of the restraining order she received Tuesday after filing a petition alleging that David Ellison Rosen had injured her neck while attempting to restrain her during an argument.
Judge Cynthia Carlson granted the petition to dismiss the restraining order after Kelly filed a written statement saying, “Dave Rosen has not abused me and doesn’t represent a threat to my safety or my children’s safety. He has not caused me bodily injury nor attempted to do so. He has never restrained me. I fabricated these claims due to pressure put on me by my mother (adopted). She dislikes Dave and used me as a pawn to express this. She accompanied me and told me exactly what to write and say.”
Kelly also apologized to the court for wasting the “valuable time of everyone involved in this matter. “Under Oregon law, it is a misdemeanor to make a false sworn statement, such as a petition for a restraining order.
Rosen, 35, said Saturday that he was “shocked and hurt by what happened and glad the truth is surfacing. “He would not comment on his relationship with Kelly and said he harbors “no ill will “against her.
Kelly, who wrote in her restraining order petition that the couple had lived together from October 2001 to Jan. 7, also wrote a letter to Deschutes County District Attorney Mike Dugan “confessing to some incomplete circumstances “regarding her allegation that Rosen took her car without permission. Again, she cited coercion by her adoptive mother, whom she did not name, “due to her financial interest in the car (she bought the car for me) and her severe dislike of Mr. Rosen.”
In the letter, she expressed remorse about false charges. Rosen was arrested during a statewide wrestling event for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and taken to the Deschutes County Jail. He was suspended from his part-time coaching position at Central Linn (he is not a teacher) and suspended as an Oregon State Athletic Association referee pending an investigation of the Redmond arrest.
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