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- Rape charges dismissed after additional evidence disclosed by defense last week [2010-Sep-1]
- FRS Bulletin [2010-Sep-1]
- Gemma Scoones, 27, made second false rape allegation [2010-Aug-31]
- Police: Woman Lied About Sexual Assault [2010-Aug-30]
- Sask. woman admits making up nightmare sex-assault tale [2010-Aug-29]
- Rape Culture 101 — Feminism and Misandric Men [2010-Aug-27]
- Portsmouth woman charged over false rape claims [2010-Aug-26]
- Denver Woman Charged With False Rape Report [2010-Aug-25]
- Blogger repeats canard that rape claims are disbelieved [2010-Aug-25]
- Sexual assault ‘unfounded’ [2010-Aug-24]
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Rape charges dismissed after additional evidence disclosed by defense last week
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
By False Rape Society [source]
Daimon C. Parrish, through his lawyer, James P. Lyons, presented Montgomery County prosecutors with additional evidence late last week, which prompted prosecutors on Monday to tell a judge they will not move forward with any sexual assault-related charges against Parrish, whose trial was slated to begin this week.
“Evidence came to light late Friday evening that made it impossible for the commonwealth to meet its burden of proof at the time of trial. This evidence suggests that the crime of rape, or any sexually related charges, was not committed,” explained Assistant District Attorney Samantha Cauffman. “After reviewing this new evidence and speaking to (the woman) about the new evidence, I am convinced that a sexual assault did not occur.
“We are ministers of just. We are out to convict those that commit crimes in our county. We are not about convicting innocent people,” Cauffman added.
Neither Cauffman nor Lyons would reveal the exact nature of the new evidence.
“It was evidence that was of such a nature that it brought into question whether this was forcible rape or consensual,” Lyons claimed.
The new evidence was not specifically identified in court.
“It was the correct decision. It was a courageous decision, frankly,” said Lyons, praising prosecutors for dismissing the sexual assault-related charges against Parrish, given the new evidence. “The district attorney’s office seeks justice and not convictions and that’s to their enormous credit.”
Parrish, 36, of Hickory Lane, still faces a felony charge of criminal trespass, with which prosecutors alleged he entered Progressive Rehab on West DeKalb Pike in Upper Merion, where his encounter with the woman occurred, without permission from the owner.
Parrish, who has previous convictions for indecent exposure in Delaware County and disorderly conduct in Chester County, will address the remaining charge on Tuesday before Judge William J. Furber Jr.
Prosecutors were prepared to begin selecting a jury for Parrish’s alleged rape trial Tuesday. In court, Cauffman indicated she was made aware that Lyons was in possession of the new evidence for about two months.
“I was shocked because it went against all my impressions of the case,” said Cauffman, recalling learning about the new evidence. “I was very disappointed that the defense had this smoking gun and waited till the eve of trial to present it to me.”
Cauffman claimed the defense team’s delayed production of the “valuable piece of evidence” wasted prosecutors’ time, county tax dollars and judicial time.
“All of us worked very hard on this case, preparing it for trial, when he had a smoking gun that he sat on for two months that ultimately proved his client’s innocence with regard to sexual assault charges,” said Cauffman.
Lyons conceded he possessed the new information for about two months.
“For strategic reasons and to better the interests of my client I decided that I would hold onto it until I felt it was appropriate,” Lyons explained. “It’s my obligation to represent him as zealously as I can within the confines of what’s proper and lawful. It was my opinion, after I thought about it long and hard, that to take the course of action which I took, would best serve that oath. That’s why I did it.”
Parrish has been in jail since Dec. 26, awaiting trial on the charges.
“I think at this point, my client is a little numb because it was such an enormous turn of events. He needs to let this sink in,” Lyons said on behalf of Parrish.
Cauffman said “it’s not likely” the 20-year-old woman will be charged with making false reports, “given the unique circumstances surrounding the case.” Cauffman would not elaborate.
Parrish was arrested last December after the Wyncote woman told authorities she met Parrish through the Web site modelmayhem.com, where her modeling photos and profile appeared and that she later agreed to have him photograph her. The woman alleged that on Dec. 21 she took a train to Bryn Mawr where Parrish picked her up and drove her to Progressive Rehab, where Parrish formerly worked as a massage therapist, according to authorities.
The woman originally claimed Parrish photographed her and then forced her to have sex at that location, according to court papers.
While Parrish no longer faces sexual assault charges, court records show he has several previous run-ins with law enforcement, including a July 2005 conviction for indecent exposure in Delaware County, where he exposed himself to a minor working at the Radnor Memorial Library. Parrish served a 10-day jail sentence for the offense.
Parrish also pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in May 2009 after he, “dressed in sheer white spandex,” walked through a library in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, and exposed himself to library patrons, according to court papers.
In pretrial court papers, Cauffman alleged Parrish kept a computer journal in which he wrote graphic details about wearing mesh shorts or thong underwear that allowed him to easily expose himself to females at libraries, pools and art classes in Montgomery, Delaware and Chester counties.
Link:
http://timesherald.com/articles/2010/08/03/news/doc4c5866a3aeede515288826.txt
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FRS Bulletin
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
By False Rape Society [source]
As we approach the one year anniversary of the Hofstra false rape claim, we've been working on what amounts to a mini-book, Lambs To The Slaughter: The Hofstra False Rape Claim, which we'll post here on the site on September 10. It is easily our most important post ever.
Guest essays are welcomed. Just email us at falserape@yahoo.com
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Gemma Scoones, 27, made second false rape allegation
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
By False Rape Society [source]
Heavily pregnant Gemma Scoones, 27, stood before Judge Michael Taylor in the dock at Durham Crown Court yesterday to be sentenced for perverting the course of justice.
Last year, Scoones was given a 12-month jail sentence by the court after she admitted a similar offence involving a false rape allegation against her estranged husband, Anthony Scoones, following the break-up of their relationship.
Mr Scoones, who later spoke about his ordeal to The Northern Echo, was arrested, held in a police cell for a day and was only released after his former wife told officers that she had made the story up.
For the latest offence, she was given another 12-month sentence, but this was suspended for two years and was accompanied by a supervision order involving the Probation Service.
Judge Taylor told her that it was a serious offence that deserved an automatic custodial sentence and said that she had made an “atrocious allegation”.
“But what saves you from an immediate sentence is that I see you are heavily pregnant and it would not be fair on your child to be born in prison,” he said.
He said it was fortunate that no one had been arrested in this latest case.
Lesley Kirkup, prosecuting, gave a brief outline of events, saying that on April 18 Scoones reported to an ambulance crew that she had been raped.
She was taken to hospital where she repeated the allegations, despite being challenged about her account.
Ms Kirkup said that medical examinations were carried out at the hospital and that police searched her home.
However, the officers were unable to find the string she had maintained was used in the attack.
When officers asked her again about her story she told them she had made it up.
“At the end of the day she has accepted she was never raped,” Ms Kirkup told the court.
Scoones, of Hardwick Street, Horden, near Peterlee, east Durham, but formerly of Newton Aycliffe, had admitted the offence at a previous hearing.
Link:
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/8305115.Impending_birth_saves_woman_who_cried_rape/
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Police: Woman Lied About Sexual Assault
Monday, August 30th, 2010
By False Rape Society [source]
Amanda Little, 26, of Oxford, initially told police that she was kidnapped while walking in the parking lot of the Walmart at about 1 a.m. on Dogwood Drive on June 24, investigators said.
Little said she was taken to an undisclosed location and sexually assaulted, said police.
Upon further investigation, and after reviewing video from the Walmart parking lot, police said Little’s story simply didn’t add up. She later admitted to detectives that she lied and told them that she had been having sex at another location when her cell phone, which was in her back pocket, accidentally dialed the number of her boyfriend’s friend and left a voicemail recording, police said. Little said she came up with the abduction story as a cover up, investigators said.
“Our detectives did a good job with ferreting out the truth here. We are an agency that focuses in on the needs of our victims, and cases like this simply are a waste of time and tie up valuable police resources,” Conyers police said.
Little is charged with the false report of a crime.
Link:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/24445676/detail.html
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Sask. woman admits making up nightmare sex-assault tale
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
By False Rape Society [source]
SASKATOON — A Saskatoon woman with a long history of mental-health problems pleaded guilty to a mischief charge this week over a phoney sex-assault tale that prompted a full-scale river search.
Michaela Rose Brown was 19 when she called 911 with a horror story on Sept. 10, 2007.
Brown said she had been sexually assaulted by a group of five males who had followed up the attack by tying her hands behind her back and dumping her into the river.
When officers found her, she told them she'd been with a female friend, who had also been tied up and thrown in the water.
The city's emergency responders swung into high gear to scour the shoreline for the missing woman, calling out canine units, a police plane, divers from the fire department's water rescue team and ambulance personnel.
Meanwhile, Brown was taken to hospital — where she refused to co-operate when staff tried to perform a standard sexual-assault kit on her, Crown prosecutor Deb Black told court.
After turning up nothing at the river, police went to the home of the supposedly missing woman, where they found her, safe and sound.
The friend said she had not been with Brown at all that day. When they confronted Brown, some confusion arose about whether she might have given the wrong last name for the missing woman, so police decided to continue the search, Black said.
During an interview with a police sergeant about four hours after she first called 911, Brown admitted she'd fabricated the whole incident.
Police learned she had a long history of mental-health problems and was under the care of a psychiatrist, court heard.
Brown's false allegation cost Saskatoon Fire and Protective Services about $7,000 — and that doesn't include the hours of work expended by a large number of police officers, Black told court.
Defence lawyer Michelle LeClair-Harding said Brown, now 22, has struggled with her mental health since she was a child and that, as a child, she was in and out of foster care and was exposed to physical, emotional and sexual abuse, as well as domestic violence.
At the time of the incident she was not taking medication and was going through a period of "teenage angst," LeClair-Harding said.
Judge Donna Scott accepted a joint recommendation from the Crown and defence to give Brown an 18-month suspended sentence, during which she will be on probation and must take any treatment or medication prescribed to her, and attend any programming ordered by her parole officer.
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Rape Culture 101 — Feminism and Misandric Men
Friday, August 27th, 2010
By False Rape Society [source]
Over the years that I've been online, I've encountered all types and levels of feminists. There are earnest feminists, like I wrote about last time; I've had the most experience with them. There are the fanatical Dworkin wannabees; haven't had much personal dealings with these folks, though their writings are easily accessible online.
There are the ditzy-broad types, the squealy, over-grown girls who conceptualize feminism as just another part of the popular culture that's "in" -- like texting or Mad Men. These are women who have no inkling of the horrific damage feminism has done to western culture, male-female relationships, and the family, nor the danger it poses for the future. I am completely at a loss about how to deal with these girls.
But the most frustrating type of feminist I've ever encountered are male. They're not just dedicated feminists; they're also hard-core misandrists, and they're some of the most rigid, close-minded folks I've ever encountered. They are the fundamentalist extremists of the gender politics world. The required beliefs and attitudes are engraved in granite with them. Women are totally inmocent and never lie about rape, never falsely accuse. Men, enforcers and beneficiaries of patriarchy, are apt to rape and abuse without thought or conscience. We're steeped in a culture of rape; it's what men use to keep women in a state of fear; to keep her under his thumb, or his heel. Because for men, oppression of women is what it's all about.
On the rare occasions when women to do slip up and lie, steal, abuse their kids, cheat on their husbands or shoot somebody -- they aren't doing it because they're bad, the way men are. They're ill. Or they're disadvantaged. Or they've been pushed, usually by some man, to the point of desperation.
Most of these misandric fellows I've encountered are old enough to remember the second-wave days when bra-burning feminists marched arm in arm across the landscape with tie-dyed war protesters, dope smokers, campus in-sitters and sexual revolutionaries. They've got not just rape culture but the whole oppressed-women repertoire down pat. And it is absolutely pointless to reason with them.
They fluently spout the statistic that women make seventy-nine cents for every dollar a man makes, but go stone cold deaf when it's explained to them that women do seventy percent of the work men do. They decry the glass ceiling in the boardroom, but don't seem at all concerned that feminists leaders aren't jumping up and down to Title Nine mining, construction and logging, the most dangerous jobs in the job market, held almost exclusively by men. And they have no appreciation for the fact that ninety-three percent of workplace fatalities occur to men. So much for equality.
In the past, these fellows tell me, women attempted to break into some of these all-male bastions, but were met with such harassment -- peepholes drilled in restroom walls, for example -- that they gave up. Women are strong and capable; they can mine or timberjack, do anything a man can do. But they're too delicate to stick a wad of Bubble Yum over a peephole? Please.
Well, if working is such a trauma, why do feminists discourage women from homemaking? Because, these guys will tell you, stay-at-home wife-and-mothering -- cleaning, cooking, laundry -- is drudgery.
"Really?" I asked once. "Punching microwave buttons is drudgery?"
"Cleaning toilets is drudgery."
I'm astounded, and I wonder how dirty a male misandrist's toilet has to get before he cleans it. I mean, my gosh, a squirt of The Works, a swish of the brush, flush, you're all done. A career woman living alone would have to clean her own toilet unless she's rich enough to hire a maid. But when there's a husband and kid in the household, it suddenly becomes drudgery?
For women, marriage is slavery, these guys think. They're bought into the whole cockamamie, Betty Friedan, suburban concentration camp meme.To my way of thinking, in a traditional marriage, it's more likely for the man to be enslaved to a job to provide for a family. Of course, I don't think most men see it that way. Most of the men I've know see it as a responsibility, a facet of their masculine role and a way of demonstrating their love for their family.
Thus, if a man goes out to work -- sometimes to risk his life in a deadly profession -- in order to provide for his family, I don't think he's asking too much for his wife to keep the house clean, to take care of the kids, and share intimacy with him.
As long as she's asked, the male misandrist says. It's when it's expected, demanded, that it becomes slavery for women.
I'm not making this up. This is how hard core male misandric feminists think. Which is purely ridiculous, when you consider it. Certain expectations are in place as soon as the preacher says, "You may kiss the bride," that render most day-to-day "asking" unnecessary.
Do these misandrists really think a wife has to wake up every morning and ask, "Honey, would you mind going to work today and making money so we can buy something to eat?" And the husband has to ask, "Sure thing, babe. Would you mind cooking us some breakfast?" And if these things are not asked, the clinking sound you hear are leg-irons magically clamping around her ankles?
Where do these bizarre ideas come from? Traditional marriage is not slavery. A wife expecting a husband to take care of the family is not slavery; a husband expecting a wife to take care of the house and kids and share a sexual relationship with him is not slavery. Marriage where both husband and wife work outside the home and share housekeeping chores and child-rearing is not slavery, either.
Conversing with one of these fellows is sometimes like talking to two people at once. Women are slaves when they need them to be; strong when they need them to be. Women are timid, easily offended little violets when they need them to be, and brilliant and capable when they need them to be. It all depends on what case the misandric feminist male is trying to make. There's something about women and oppression they just can't shake loose from.
The best way to describe my encounters with these dudes is teeth-gnashing and hair-pulling (my own, yes). The only bright side of my experience with them is that there doesn't seem to be very many of them. The intellect and temperament of the majority of men, thank goodness, will not accomodate such nonsense.
*Connie is a member of the FRS team. Her weekly essays appear every Friday. Her personal blog is http://conniechastain.blogspot.com/
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Portsmouth woman charged over false rape claims
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
By False Rape Society [source]
A woman has been charged with making a false rape allegation after an investigation by police.
She was bailed to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, 4 August, a spokesman for Hampshire police confirmed.
It follows a police investigation into an allegation of rape in Portsmouth on Monday, 5 July.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-10790304
Second article, and she is now named:
Nicola Osborne, of Winchester Road, Buckland, is accused of perverting the court of justice. The 31-year-old is alleged to have falsely claimed she was raped after being forced into a car in Fratton Road, Fratton, in the early hours of July 5.
A 26-year-old man arrested in connection with the allegation was later released without charge. Osborne was released on bail by Portsmouth magistrates to appear at Portsmouth Crown Court in December.
Link: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/False-rape-claim-charge.6458075.jp
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Denver Woman Charged With False Rape Report
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
By False Rape Society [source]
HOPKINSVILLE POLICE SAY A DENZIL DRIVE WOMAN WAS ARRESTED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR FALSELY REPORTING SHE WAS RAPED JUNE 28TH.
POLICE SAY 19 YEAR-OLD CHRISTY DAWN LAVENDER OF 1300-2 DENZIL DRIVE WAS ARRESTED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AFTER SHE ADMITTED TO DETECTIVES THAT DESPITE HER INITIAL CLAIMS, SHE WAS NOT RAPED ON JUNE 28TH AT HER HOME. SHE TOLD THE DETECTIVE SHE MADE THE CLAIM BECAUSE SHE WAS TRYING TO SAVE HER MARRIAGE.
LAVENDER INITIALLY ACCUSED OF A FORT CAMPBELL MAN OF HAVING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH HER AT HER APARTMENT.
Link:
http://www.wkdzradio.com/pages/7699314.php?
Link:
http://www.wkdzradio.com/pages/7699314.php?
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Blogger repeats canard that rape claims are disbelieved
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
By False Rape Society [source]
Sigh. How can we say this? The blogger is simply wrong, and that's not just my "opinion." We study this issue extensively and suspect we are qualified to assert, without fear of plausible contradiction, that this blogger got it exactly backwards.
Yesterday, we posted (yet again) about the prevalence of false rape claims, and have even added a permanent link on the right side of this page about it. We won't deal with that again in this post.
We've also written extensively about the tendency of the public to automatically believe even far-fetched allegations of rape without any supporting evidence beyond the accuser's say so. Does that blogger not know of America's painful history of overreacting to rape claims? It was such a problem at one time that one American President focused on it during his State of the Union Address. Has that blogger never heard of the countless innocent men falsely accused of rape who were hanged by vigilante mobs? While that issue is often couched in terms of racial strife, it is much more than that. This blog is replete with modern day instances of falsely accused men -- black and white and every color in between -- being chased, being beaten, and even being killed over what turned out to be a false rape claim.
This blog is also replete with examples of young men being arrested and jailed, sometimes with disastrous consequences for them, over rape charges that were out-and-out fabrications, and that could have been easily disproved with even modest investigation. (I am working on an extensive post about one such case -- the Hofstra false rape case -- for the upcoming first anniversary of that awful claim.) The fact is, law enforcement too often allows itself to be used as little more than muscle for rape liars. And the news media too often allows itself to be nothing more than stenographers for police, ever eager to boost its ratings with some good old fashioned rape hysteria.
But rape claims tend to be disbelieved? Seriously? The fact is, rape claimants are automatically wrapped in the garb of victimhood by the news media, and a gullible public eats up those stories and accepts them as fact -- because, after all, "it's in the newspaper." And make no mistake, rape accusers are wrapped in the garb of victimhood not just in subtle ways, but in blatant, almost over-the-top, ways. They are routinely referred to as "victims." It matters not at all to the Fourth Estate that if an accuser is a "victim," that means the man or boy she accused must be a rapist. Due process be damned.
Don't believe me? The following are from news stories published just today -- and it is only 8:30 am, Eastern Prevailing Time, here in the US:
How about this story: "Woodstock Police have made an arrest in the rape of a teenager last week. 20-year-old Edward Rogers has been charged with raping the teen at the Weatherstone subdivision off of Highway 92. 'It was pretty easy to track him down,' police spokeswoman Brittany Duncan tells WSB. 'They just followed up on a few leads concerning his whereabouts. They just interviewed the victim, then interviewed him.'" (Emphasis added.)
Or this headline: "Victim: Suspect claimed he had injured baby, then assaulted her."
Or this story: "POLICE are investigating the alleged rape of a teenage girl in a town-centre graveyard. . . . . The exact time of the attack is unclear because the 18-year-old victim did not dial 999 immediately, instead contacting a family member who alerted the police. The victim lives in Surrey and the matter was initially reported to officers there before being handed to Sussex Police at 3.55am. Police say the alleged attacker is known to the victim. A Crawley man, 24, was arrested at around 10am yesterday and was still being questioned by detectives as the News went to press yesterday afternoon. The victim, who is described as "extremely distressed", is helping police with the investigation. Officers remained on guard at the graveyard, near County Mall. Anyone with information on the alleged sex attack is asked to call police on 0845 60 70 999, quoting serial 180 of August 24."
Or this excerpt from a news story: "The trial of an Augusta rape suspect continued Tuesday with his final victim taking the stand."
Or this headline: "I accepted Lamptey-Mills’ sex offer, it was not rape – Victim."
Or this excerpt from a news story: "A Chattanooga man already facing a rape charges, has now been arrested for child rape. Edward Collins was arrested last week. The victim is a boy, who says Collins entered his bedroom and assaulted him from behind."
Or this excerpt from a news story: "An Indian national jailed for brutally raping a young university student used his victim to re-impose control over women, a court has heard."
Or this excerpt from a news story: ". . . The victim’s brother was working at Enterprise Rental in Wichita Kansas when he recognized Latham’s sister who rented a car from the business. He testified the sister told him where Latham lived and he called authorities. The victim is now 33-years-old and lives out of state. She took the stand today and testified Latham started molesting her during the first week he moved into their house when she was five-years-old."
Or this excerpt from a news story: "A 25-year-old air hostess has accused her boyfriend of raping her. A complaint in this regard was registered at the Sarkhej police station late on Tuesday night by the victim. . . . According to the victim, she used to study in an institute to prepare for her dream job — becoming an air hostess. Later, she also had taught at the same institute."
Depressed yet? Need I go on searching for more stories? In the court of last resort -- our daily newspapers -- the rape trial is over even before it has begun. The unnamed rape accuser is a "victim," the readily identified man or boy she accused must be a rapist, and bloggers feel perfectly justified insisting that this incontrovertible fact just isn't so. Just another day in our False Rape Society.
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Sexual assault ‘unfounded’
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
By False Rape Society [source]
Police now say a woman's complaint about a sexual assault by a stranger was false.
Shortly after 1 a.m., Thursday police said the woman said she was walking on Egerton St. near Cameron St. when she was assaulted by a man and dragged into a laneway on Cameron St. just south of Hamilton Rd. and sexually assaulted.
The suspect was last seen running west on Cameron St.
The victim managed to flag down a passing police cruiser to get help.
But police said further investigation revealed "the report was determined to be unfounded and there will be no further police investigation."
Link:
http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/07/22/14793966.html
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