Girl behind rape hoax still has anonymity

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'Everybody knows who she is.

Nobody wants to say her name out loud.

That, more or less, is the situation the 17-year-old girl who cried rape in Palos Heights Sept. 16 finds herself in today, five days after she admitted she made the whole thing up.

The media has a longstanding policy of not naming rape victims in all but the most exceptional circumstances.
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But when it turns out there wasn't a rape in the first place, the question gets more complicated, media ethics experts say.'

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What's complicated about releasing her name? She wasn't a rape victim; she is a criminal. The last time I checked filing a false police report was a crime!

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