Psychologist charged with filing false rape report to cover up a marital affair.

From the Pioneer Press

A psychologist who claimed she was raped by a patient in her Selby Avenue office lied about the incident to cover up her extramarital affair with the man, according to a court document.

Jill Marie Ajao, 41, was charged Friday in Ramsey County District Court with falsely reporting a crime, a misdemeanor.

A call left at her home in St. Paul was not immediately returned.

On Oct. 26, 2006, police responded to a call from Ajao at her office, where she appeared "crying and visibly upset," the complaint said.

The complaint goes on:

Ajao told police that two days earlier, a new patient named "Jeff" had come in for a scheduled appointment at 2 p.m. During the session, "Jeff" raped her, she said, providing specifics of the rape.

The next day, police contacted a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension sketch artist, who worked with Ajao to design a likeness of the suspect.

The day after that, Ajao changed her statement, saying she'd met the man at a bar down the hall from her office. She also said she had been at a sexual aids store called the Love Doctor on University Avenue and speculated that the man had seen her there and somehow found out who she was.

On Oct. 30, police interviewed a witness from the bar, who said she recalled Ajao being there with a man, and that they seemed familiar to each other. Police released to the media a surveillance photo of the man leaving the bar and received "hundreds" of calls in response from the public.

In January, Ajao met with St. Paul police Sgt. Paul Schnell at her request - changing her story again.

This time, she said she met a man online, and they got together Oct. 24 when she called him. She told police "there was an expectation that there would be no sex" but that her real intention was to "surprise and pleasure her husband" by putting an encounter together.

It was not immediately clear what she intended regarding her husband.

Still later, in February, Ajao sent an e-mail to the man, which was obtained by police. In it, the man asked if she "finally admitted that the encounter was consensual and that she claimed rape to cover up an affair." She replied that she had.

Police said the case is highly unusual and emphasized that real victims would be believed, as Ajao initially was