LOS ANGELES - Dec. 15, 2004 - Kerri Francis Dunn, the 40-year-old daughter of a retired police officer, who holds a degree in law from University of Nebraska and who taught classes in criminal justice and psychology at a California college, was sentenced to one year in a California prison for falsely reporting that her car was damaged in a campus hate crime. The incident was later exposed as a fraud when two witnesses stepped forward to claim they saw Dunn vandalizing her car.
Dunn’s Honda reportedly was sprayed with slurs about blacks and Jews on March 9, 2004 and her tires were slashed. The suspected hate crime sparked widespread outrage by blacks, Jews and other minorities and prompted the Claremont Colleges to cancel classes for a day of anti-hate rallies.
Dunn was a visiting psychology professor at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.
Following her conviction by a jury in August 2005, Pomona Superior Court Judge Charles Horan ordered Dunn to prison for 90 days of psychological evaluation to help him decide on the sentence. Horan reportedly said a report from the prison indicated that Dunn “remains utterly unrepentant and still insists she is a victim.”
"Everyone seems to be wondering where Kerri Dunn is now and that's where I have been pouring most of my energy these last few days. It turns out that Kerri Dunn is living in Montclair, New Jersey, and like everyone these days, she's on Facebook. Most recently, she became a fan of Human Rights Watch, Barack Obama's Accomplishments, Greenpeace International, Moveon.org, and lest I forget, the Coffee Party. So, in other words, she's a typical leftist."
