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'A defense lawyer on Tuesday won a sentencing delay for a 23-year-old north Minneapolis woman convicted of falsely accusing two Minneapolis police officers of raping her.

After a three-week trial, a jury on Monday convicted Trisha Farkarlun, 23, of making a false report of police misconduct, a gross misdemeanor. She could be sentenced to up to one year in jail and fined $3,000.

Hennepin County District Judge Tanya Bransford delayed sentencing until Aug. 14 so she could receive written memos and respond to the defense motions for acquittal, a new trial and a hearing on potential juror misconduct.'

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'PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP -- A 25-year-old woman admitted Thursday she lied to Kent County sheriff's detectives about being sexually assaulted Wednesday at the Hidden Valley Townhomes by a man pretending to be a maintenance worker.

Detectives will be seeking charges against the woman of filing a false police report.

An interview with the woman Thursday revealed she fabricated the story.

The woman told detectives Wednesday a man approached her apartment and told her that he was there to fix her drywall.

The woman said the alleged suspect then entered the apartment, forced her to the ground and sexually assaulted her at knifepoint.

Criminal charges have not yet been filed.'

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'A southern Alberta teenager could be charged with public mischief for making a false sexual assault report to police.

RCMP in Strathmore had asked the public for help Monday after a 14-year-old said she had been sexually assaulted by up to five young men around 2 a.m. in an alley behind Strathmore's Co-op liquor store.

Police released a description of three men and a vehicle.

On Thursday, police said the girl had recanted her story. She told officers she made up the story, using details from a verbal encounter she had with two men in the alley.

"The RCMP wish to remind everyone that fictitious claims of criminal offences are not only subject to possible criminal charges, but these stories have a profound effect on the sense of security of the community, negative impact on the reputation of communities, any accused persons and others who are actual victims of crimes," the force said in a release.'

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'An allegation of rape has been determined to be a false accusation according to investigators in Dearborn County.

Officials say the determination was based on statements from the accused and the victim, as well as other evidence.

On July 15 the Aurora Police Department and the Dearborn County Special Crimes Unit were called in to investigate a possible sexual assault at the Aurora Little League Park just after Midnight.

The victim was treated and released from the Dearborn County Hospital. The victim's name is being withheld to protect her privacy.

No arrests were made in the case.'

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'A 12-year-old Berkshire girl has been given a reprimand for wasting police time after falsely reporting a rape.

The girl, from Reading, told officers she had been raped by a 15-year-old boy on 11 July.

They arrested the teenager but further inquiries showed the rape accusation was false and he was later released without charge.

Police said the investigation cost thousands of pounds and caused distress to the innocent victim.
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"In this case a 15-year-old boy was arrested as part of the initial investigation, which was obviously very distressing for him.'

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'HOUGHTON COUNTY -- The decision to drop charges against a Michigan Tech Student accused of filing a false rape report was made after a lot of discussion.

Jennifer Stigers was facing a felony charge after she filed a false report earlier this year.
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If she had been found guilty of the charge, Stigers could have been facing up to four years in prison.'

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'AJAX -- For two years Ray Collingham felt like somebody was holding a gun to his head.

The reality was even worse.

"I was charged with seven counts of sexual assault, four counts of sexual interference, two counts of invitation to sexual touching and two sexual exploitation charges," Collingham said in an interview yesterday.
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Now Collingham wants his life, name and reputation back.

"I've had a gun to my head, so to speak, for two years and now I'm hoping slowly that I'm going to be able to get back on my feet," Collingham said.'

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'Ginsburg agreed to the assertio of unfairness, but laid it to ideology: "There are people in Congress who would criticize severely anyone President Obama nominated."

She then cited Sotomayor's 2001 remark about a "wise Latina" reaching "a better conclusion than a white male" and said, "I thought it was ridiculous for them to make a big deal out of that." Feminists are not concerned when the ox being gored is a white male, any more than a matador thinks twice about putting the blade between the shoulders of a charging bull.

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'We believe men are in charge and women are suppressed in relationships. But really, women dominate in personal arguments twice as often as men do. Furthermore, men get more stressed and stay stressed longer than women do following an argument. And two-thirds of divorces are filed by women.

Men's chivalrous tendencies to protect women against bullies are working against themselves. Being openly critical of men is gaining acceptance, but being openly critical of women is socially improper.

Women who can't get a man to commit to a relationship are seen as exploited. Men in the same boat aren't a real concern. "'Runaway Bride' was funny; 'Runaway Groom' would be anything but," Driscoll says.

Bottom line, Driscoll and Davis say, is men are being disenfranchised in their families. And unless we turn things around, it will be our children who suffer the most.'

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'LITCHFIELD - — In advance of its premiere on HBO, a new documentary about teen suicide will be shown July 25 at Bantam Cinema in Litchfield, with the directors in attendance.

"Boy Interrupted" is about Evan Scott Perry, who committed suicide at his home in New York City in 2005, at the age of 15, after a lifetime of battling bipolar disorder. His parents took years' worth of home-movie footage and edited together a chronicle of their troubled boy's life, which included treatment at Wellspring, a facility in Bethlehem.

Sheila Nevins, HBO executive producer, and Dana and Hart Perry will attend, as will representatives from Wellspring.'

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'A new organization based in the Lower Hudson Valley is hoping to influence the debate about infant circumcision, as the nation's most influential public health agency prepares to make recommendations on the procedure amid new evidence that it could help protect men from sexually transmitted diseases, including the HIV virus.

The group, Intact America [link added], is headed by Upper Nyack resident Georganne Chapin, who also leads the Tarrytown-based Hudson Health Plans, which provides health insurance to people on Medicaid.

The organization, backed by an anti-circumcision Texas millionaire, is circulating an online petition that it hopes will convince the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention not to recommend routine infant male circumcision as a matter of public health policy.

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'The Center for Abuse and Rape Emergencies, Inc. said even though there were two false reports in two days, it's rare for people to make up these kinds of stories.

Mary Baer, Director of Sexual Assault Services said, "Only two percent of rape reports are false, and that is about the same number of false reports of any other crime."

Mary Baer also said false reporting not only wastes time and money, but it could also keep real victims from coming forward - fearing no one will believe them.

"False reports just feed into the myth that women lie about rape, and it's not true," Baer said.'

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'A woman convicted last week of making a false claim of rape against two Minneapolis police officers filed a lawsuit Monday alleging a cover-up and seeking damages in excess of $50,000.

Lawyer Jill Clark filed the complaint on behalf of Trisha Farkarlun against the city, Police Chief Tim Dolan and several police officers, including the two she alleged participated in the rape and those who investigated it. The suit was filed in Hennepin County District Court.
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Last Tuesday, Clark successfully sought a delay in sentencing one day after Farkarlun, 23, was convicted of making a false report of police misconduct, a gross misdemeanor. She could be sentenced to up to one year and fined $3,000. Judge Tanya Bransford scheduled a hearing for 2 p.m. Thursday for sentencing and post-trial motions for acquittal, a new trial and juror misconduct.'

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'PISCATAWAY — The engineering class going on this summer on the third floor of the Allison Road classroom building on the Busch campus does not look like any other engineering class at Rutgers University.

In fact, it may not look like any other engineering class anywhere.

That is because everyone in the class is an adolescent girl.

This is not an actual college engineering class. The students are still in high school.

They are participating in a summerlong program called The Academy at Rutgers for Girls in Engineering and Technology, or TARGET, designed to introduce girls as early as the sixth grade to engineering.'

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'There is a growing fathers’ rights movement in the United States and especially Ohio where fathers are treated very unfairly. A little known fact about child support is that the county is allotted large sums of money for each case that is enforced. The money trickles down through the system via the County Commissioner’s Office. The court merely rubber stamps the child support recommendation and nine out of ten times the father has no say in the matter. There seems to be no incentive to grant visitation to unwed fathers and no incentive to enforce visitation rights or lower support when needed. Speaking to many politicians around the State was very disappointing since almost none of them want to touch the issue. One response was that there was legislation looming but the last election year killed it. The details were not explained.'