UK: Student jailed over false rape claim made 'so she could get more time to do her homework'

Submitted by Broadsword on Mon, 2010-07-05 12:40

Article here. Excerpt:

"A student has been jailed for 18 months for falsely claiming a cleaner had raped her - so she could get an extension on her university course work. Temitope Adenugba, 24, was struggling to meet a deadline whilst studying at Oxford Brookes University last year.
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She phoned police to tell them she had been abused as a child, before complaining she had also been subjected to a serious sexual assault as she slept in her university digs. When officers attended her halls of residence to take a statement, Adenugba pointed at cleaner Kunle Ogunmola and said: 'Can't talk here, that's the man who raped me.'
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Mr Ogunmola was arrested, before a subsequent police investigation exposed a catalogue of lies and her claims later proved to be complete fantasy. The lie was created in a bid to get an extension on her end-of-term coursework, the court heard.
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Sentencing her to 18 months in prison at Oxford Crown Court on Friday, Recorder Rabinder Singh said: 'It's extremely easy to make an allegation of rape when there's no foundation whatsoever.

'It's likely to have the perverse impact of guilty men walking free.'"

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I always wondered at the logic behind these kinds of statements- or complete lack thereof. The formal phrase is "non-sequitur", meaning the conclusion doesn't follow from the premises:

1. Women who claim they were raped are sometimes lying.
2. Men who are accused of rape are sometimes not guilty thereof.
Therefore:
Prosecuting a woman for a false rape accusation leads to men who are guilty of rape walking free.

Like I said, a non-sequitur.

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2010-07-05 14:36