Student admits to filing false attempted rape report with police

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2014-10-22 13:20

Story here. Excerpt:

'A student who reported a sexual assault in the Texas Tech Student Recreation Center has admitted to making false statements, according to the university.

The Texas Tech Police Department issued an alert to the campus community on Sept. 15 about the alleged assault.
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The case will be turned over to the Lubbock County Criminal District Attorney’s Office and to the Tech Office of Student Conduct.

Cook said filing a false report is a Class B misdemeanor, but the woman may also be subject to penalties from Tech.

According to a TechAnnounce sent out to the Tech community Tuesday night, filing a false report is punishable by up to a $2,000 fine, jail confinement up to 180 days or both.'

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... as claimed by such intellectual and moral luminaries as Ezra Klein, do they seem to emerge with such regularity?

Oh yes, I know... it's b/c rape is so common that the percentage of false reporting is still very low, even if every day there's yet another report abt it.

Ummm, no. Actually, MANN regulars/MRAs and lurking feminist readers alike, the number of actual rapes and falsely-reported rates have nothing to do with each other. That is b/c an actual rape, or rate thereof, does not have any causal relationship to the rate women might file false rape reports. The only two things they have in common are the word "rape" and the fact that in both cases, a crime was committed.

The first thing, an actual rape, entails someone forcing another person to engage in a sex act involuntarily. It can and often does include other kinds of violence, such as beating, binding, or poisoning the victim in some way. It's a serious crime-of-person.

The second thing is when some person knowingly reports to police that she (or he) was a victim of an attempted or actual completed rape. That is a serious crime of integrity, also known in this context as perjury.

Analogy: There were 23 house fires in some county deliberately set (i.e., arson) some place in 2012. That same year, 5 false police reports were filed by ppl accusing a person, known or not known to the reporter, of attempting to burn their house down, with these reports known to be false by the reporters thereof. Now, if there had been 10 such reports, would it have affected how many houses were burned down by arsonists in that county? Would that have caused the no. to go up? Or down? No, neither. Totally unrelated matters.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2014-10-23 03:43