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by Anonymous User on 02:13 PM September 18th, 2005 EST (#1)
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What's the penalty for a false accusation of rape? Nothing? And the BBC prints the guy's name, but not the woman's name?
How much longer is this crap going to go on?
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by SacredNaCl
(tbessR3m0Ve2SendNEIN[SPAM]@R3m0ve.2.sendAt.mail.ru)
on 03:57 PM September 18th, 2005 EST (#2)
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How come this case sounds like a hooker who realized she didn't have a John but a guy trying to get her a lift?
Freedom Is Merely Privilege Extended Unless Enjoyed By One & All.
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by Anonymous User on 04:02 PM September 18th, 2005 EST (#3)
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This article gives more details. The key for me is the judge's comments:
[The prosecutor] did not "seem to understand" that "the Crown have an overwhelming duty to assess the reliability of their evidence before they present it to a court".
A classic case of someone who is so concerned that he might be perceived to be anti-female that he pursued an innocent man in the face of all the facts. This guy operated totally on the principle "A women said it happened so it must be true"
This is what many feminists want to be the standard applied in rape cases. As you know, women never lie about rape. Fortunately someone applied critical thinking at the right time and saved an innocent man on this occasion. How many times though, has no-one intervened?
The only downside of the reporting of this case for me is her anonymity and the fact that the judge mitigates her behaviour by saying
"It might have occurred to them that the complainant's account might have been impaired through the quantity of alcohol she had consumed"
I hope the innocent man pursues everyone involved in this case for damages and especially the vindictive drunk whose false accusation lost this guy his job, and probably his life as he knows it.
Rob
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There was a case in the UK earlier this year of a woman who falsely accused a man of rape and she was jailed (I've tried to find the link, but no luck.)
She was married but had borne a child as a result of an adulterous affair (her husband knew the kid wasn't his, but foolishly her forgave her.)
One night she screwed some guy she met in a bar. Not sure if her husband would forgive her latest indescretion, she said the next day that the man she'd met in the bar had raped her. The guy was arrested and went right to trial before the case was finally thrown out (I think it was because several witnesses had seen the woman all over the guy in the bar then she'd practically invited herself back to his place.)
Anyway, the woman was then tried for perjury and got a year in prison. Her husband, finally, did the right thing and divorced her.
It mainly hit the papers because it was so unusual for a woman to go to prison for making a false allegation.
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by Anonymous User on 10:01 AM September 19th, 2005 EST (#5)
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Anonymous User writes "Finally, a judge refuses to be politically correct and just beleive the woman despite the lack of evidence. The judge also said the prosecutor may have to pay the costs of bringing the matter to court. Story