The case of Brian Banks, is one of the most disturbing cases we have been exposed to in quite some time.

The high school football star, who was one of the most highly-sought after players in the country, has had a rape charge against him dismissed after his accuser admitted it had never happened!

Keep reading for the deets…

Brian Banks, now 26, who spent six years behind bars in California, collapsed in tears during a court hearing as a prosecutor quickly conceded the decade-old case and moved for a dismissal. After a decade, it was the judgment that Brian Banks and his lawyers from the California Innocence Project fought for: Case dismissed.

“My only dream in the world was to just be free and to have the same opportunity as everybody here,” said Banks after his hearing Thursday.

In 2002, at the age of 16, Brian Banks had been a popular student at Polytechnic High in Long Beach, an athlete being scouted by eight colleges. He verbally accepted an offer to attend the University of Southern California on a full ride, a four-year scholarship when a serious accusation came from a fellow classmate and childhood friend.

Wanetta Gibson, then 15 years old, claimed Banks had kidnapped, dragged her across the school and then raped her when he accompanied her on-campus. Investigators tested her but found no physical evidence of rape. Brooks maintained they had not had sex and all sexual contact had been consensual.

“We went into an area on campus that is known as a makeout spot, we kissed, we groped, we touched but we never had sex. We ended things on a good note. I went back to class, by the end of the day I was in custody,” he said.

Yet, the star athlete’s attorney encouraged Banks to make a plea deal of no contest to the kidnap and rape charges, warning Banks he could get 41 years to life in prison if convicted. Her advice to him, was that since he was a big, black teenager, no jury would believe anything he would have said.  Expecting he would serve just 18 months instead, he followed the advice and pleaded no contest. He was in prison for six years. I hope that lawyer has been disbarred.

Meanwhile Gibson collected $1.5 million after suing the school over lack of safety on campus. While she was spending money, Banks was spending five years in prison and another five on parole, before he finally reached out to the California Innocence Project, a law school clinical program at California Western School of Law dedicated to releasing wrongfully convicted inmate.

The case made a major turn when the alleged victim contacted him through Facebook asking to be his friend. [The NERVE of some people] 

“Why would you friend request me?”  Banks asked Gibson over Facebook. Her reply, “I figured you and I could let bygones be bygones. I was immature then but I’m much more mature now.”  

Then came a face to face meeting. Gibson admitted that she lied and was willing to help Banks clear his name, according to court records. But there was just one problem–would she have to pay back the $1.5 million? Yes, that was her concern It was a fear that made Gibson weary of telling her story to prosecutors.

But according to defense attorneys, Gibson admitted she was worried about having to pay the money during a second meeting with Banks, that was secretly recorded.  Her admission was everything Banks had been waiting for.

He is finally free, with “special thanks” to the woman who put him there. Banks is no longer bitter over the situation and has chosen to make his focus back on what it originally was, football. He wants to finally make that NFL dream a reality.

I hope that he gets an opportunity to fulfill his dream of making an NFL team. If not a team, at least a chance to play on a practice squad. And we HOPE this wench is punished by the law in some way.

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