Police: Washington state woman made up acid attack story

Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2010-09-17 14:50

Story here. Excerpt:

'(CNN) -- A 28-year-old woman who said an unknown assailant threw a cup of caustic liquid in her face has admitted her injuries were self-inflicted, Vancouver, Washington, police said Thursday.

Bethany Storro was being interviewed by detectives, and whether she will be charged will be up to prosecutors, police said.

"She is extremely upset," said police Commander Marla Schuman. "She is very remorseful. In many ways it got bigger than she expected."

Police would not speculate on Storro's motives, only saying the August 30 incident did not occur as she described and that there were discrepancies in her account, including wearing sunglasses in the evening.'

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Men buy super-expensive sports cars, jump off high cliffs into the sea, and do other weird things to get attention. It's strange that there seems to be an increasingly-prevalent pattern among American women, where they use the criminal justice system to get attention. Clearly this case was a cry for help on the "victim's" part. And sure enough, she got a lot of attention, although I imagine not the kind that she would prefer.

When these women use the criminal justice system, they say "he raped me," or "she threw acid on me," or some other lie. These women need to be more sensitive to the impacts of their accusations on the accused, on the criminal justice system (the cost of investigating this allegations was very high), and on the general public's expectation that women lie about these things. I can think of no better way to instill a sense for the consequences wrought by these accusations, than to press charges against her for making a false allegation, just as they would treat a man under similar circumstances.

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Sat, 2010-09-18 02:27

she also got loads of moola from sympathy donations nationwide. So much that they're thinking of prosecuting her for felony fraud.

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Submitted by Hunchback on Sat, 2010-09-18 02:43

The police are working to see if they can return the money to those who donated. I don't believe the "victim" will see this money. Perhaps she'll write a book about the affair and make money thereby, but I don't think she's going to make money on donations, nor do I believe that was her original intent.

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Sat, 2010-09-18 07:05

This is also an interesting case study about what type of news gets aired. Apparently women being attacked, even if it is alleged to be by another woman, that gets air time. Men getting attacked, whether by a woman or a man, that does not get airtime. In fact, many men are dying and being maimed in Iraq right now, and there's no airtime devoted to that at all.

Then there's the strangeness factor. Something different seems to be more likely to be aired, than something common. Then again, a whole lot of really strange stuff happens to men in divorce court, and that's never considered to be newsworthy. Parental alienation, paternity fraud, and all sorts of strange stuff. Never gets on the news - why? Because men are the victims.

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Sat, 2010-09-18 07:11