LEBANON — A former college basketball player lost her bid Wednesday to be released from prison while she appeals convictions for faking reports that she was raped and for planting evidence to make police believe her.

        Former Southern Illinois University basketball standout Nikki Gilmore was sent in May to the Ohio Reformatory for Women at Marysville for two years after a judge convicted her of three felony counts of tampering with evidence and two misdemeanor charges of falsification.

        Ms. Gilmore, 28, was not returned from prison to attend the informal hearing in the common pleas chambers of Judge P. Daniel Fedders.

        Prosecutors objected to her request for Judge Fedders to release her on bail, saying she was a danger to herself and others, and that she may try to leave because she had contacts in the Soviet Union and Australia because of her involvement in the athletic ministry, Athletes in Action.

        “The defendant has been falsifying reports of threats, assaults, abductions and rapes since at least 1993,” Warren County Prosecutor Tim Oliver wrote in a memorandum to the court. Based on that history, he said he was concerned that she would continue that behavior, possibly harming herself because she had staged injuries before.

        “Several different police departments have spent countless dollars and man-hours investigating Ms. Gilmore's false allegations. The plethora of false reports increases the likelihood of an innocent person being arrested,” Mr. Oliver wrote.

        Ms. Gilmore has repeatedly insisted that the attacks she alleged really occurred in 2000. On Sept. 18, Ms. Gilmore reported that two men and a woman kidnapped her from the parking lot of her workplace, Portion Pac Inc. on Snider Road. They took her to an undisclosed location, where one of the men cut off her clothes with a knife, assaulted her, slashed her breasts and wrote the word “sex” across her back in black marker, she reported.

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