Valencia LaRue, 42, has been in the Seminole County jail since she was convicted April 13.
Jurors concluded that she had anonymously called a Florida Department of Children and Families hotline, saying that the new boyfriend of her lover's estranged wife had sexually abused a 6-year-old girl.
The child had not been abused, and, in fact, the romantic rival had no boyfriend, investigators found.
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| Valencia LaRue, former Seminole County deputy, was convicted of making a false child abuse claim to DCF's hotline |
On the day of the phone call, May 14, 2014, LaRue was no longer a deputy. She had resigned the day before but was about to be fired after 20 years in law enforcement.
An internal affairs investigation found that she and another deputy, Joseph Fetchick, had an affair while they were both still married to other people.
They were accused of leaving their assignments to have sex while on duty at least three times. Although they admitted to the extramarital affair, the two denied that allegation.
Fetchick was fired. He and LaRue currently live together. She now operates a beauty salon.
Phone records obtained during the investigation showed that the two exchanged more than 6,000 text messages in a 10-week period, many of them sexually explicit.
The phone call happened about a month later. In it, LaRue said that Fetchick's wife had a boyfriend who was abusing the couple's 6-year-old daughter. LaRue also said that Fetchick's wife and boyfriend had sex in front of the child.
The Sheriff's Office traced the call to LaRue's cellphone.
At Wednesday's hearing Fetchick's ex-wife, Michelle Fetchick, told Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson, "The past three years have been nothing short of absolute turmoil."
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