Of False Accusations and Epidemic Deceit -
A common representation of Justice is a blind-folded woman holding a set of scales and a sword. The woman is supposed to be the Virtuous Themis, the scales represent impartiality, the sword represents power and the blindfold represents impartiality.
[1] False Rape Accusations May Be More Common Than Thought: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 By Wendy McElroy: FOX NEWS
[2] http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/sanbernardinocounty/ci_11795237
[3] "False Allegations: Wrongful Accusations of Rape" – by Karen Stephenson: http://abuse.suite101.com/article.cfm/false_allegations#ixzz0BJaRX9ZC
The Vicious American Inquisition
I went and met a friend, Dick, at a bar in a little town upstate along Route 52 outside the Pine Bush area. A few years back we were at a hunting lodge in a picturesque little village along the Hudson discussing his new girlfriend. Now he is recovering from false accusations of sexual assault. I say recovering because when the accusations against him were proved false, he had lost his home, his savings and his health.
It all started innocently enough, they met at Church, they both were taking classes at the same junior college to enhance their careers. Dick described their relationship as ‘really good’. They hadn’t even been intimate sexually…some petting, some lewd and rough language when kidding around but he didn’t even get into her pants. One day at a park outside of Granite, NY, ‘Ellen’ decided to show another side of herself.
The nice decent Church going Executive Assistant in her late 30’s started asking Dick questions about his sexual appetites. Oral sex, anal sex, lubricants, condoms and role playing…all of these questions were put to Dick who answered honestly. It was on Sunday after Church on a walking path when Ellen led Dick by the hand into the woods and asked him to spank her, “hard….spank me hard” said Ellen.
Dick didn’t disappoint her, hoping that this would lead to something more intimate. (little head overriding big head’s rational setting) They left the woods laughing and cooing the way lovers do. A few days later at work, the Police came to talk to Dick. They arrested him for assault. They had pictures of Ellen’s bruised ass and proceeded to persecute him, I mean, prosecute him.
Thank God he had a good lawyer, but lawyers cost money, his reputation at his job (works for the Port Authority) has suffered (now he’s a fetish freak) and since he hasn’t been eating regularly, self medicating and hiding out in bars, his health, mental and physical, has caused him high blood pressure problems that brought on a ‘mild heart attack’. Mentally, he is now questioning his masculinity.
Spiritually, he has been wounded irreparably, he was asked by his Minister to leave his Church. The congregants he used to call ‘Brother’ and ‘Sister’ have nothing to do with him and don’t even call to see if he is alright. He used to play softball with the teenagers and young adults in the Church, now he is Satan. He is finally getting his life back due to his family and real friends staging an intervention (he was going to kill himself).
As we sat at the bar a few very fine young ladies walked by us and gave more than a casual glance. I said ‘good evening’ they smiled and answered back, looking at Dick, N.F. and another dude further down the bar. Dick paid no attention to them at all. I saw the pain and fear in Dick’s face. I saw the anger too. I wondered why this was allowed to happen to Dick. A liberal, politically socialist court hung up on old stereotypes? No wonder!
This isn’t the first time I heard of this happening to ‘good guys’. In fact, false accusations against men have increased exponentially. I looked into this and discovered that this is going on so much the justice department did a study that it didn’t give any fanfare and published under a cloud of obscurity, because the truths in the report were totally damning of a Justice system bankrupt of Justice.
In a 1996 study published by the U.S. Department of Justice: Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence After Trial, the study documents 28 cases which, "with the exception of one young man of limited mental capacity who pleaded guilty," consist of individuals who were convicted by juries and, then, later exonerated by DNA tests.[1]
At the time of release, they had each served an average of 7 years in prison.
Fake assault and rape claims are made every day, they are almost epidemic. Our society is doing a piss poor job of stopping this evil. The so called Justice System on every level, Family Court, Superior Court and Civil Court is complicit in the victimization of men falsely accused of sexual assault or sexual misconduct. The failure causes more than damage to a man or a boy, but to his family and to the community at large.
Many women have more than one motive for making false accusations. Among those reasons may be embarrassment for their own conduct, friends or family finding out about their lascivious life style or to punish a man who jilted them or just pissed them off. Not only is this prevalent in all society and in all the states among adult women, there is a rise of false allegations made by teen girls.
In California, San Bernardino police say a 16-year-old student at Cajon High School who claimed she was raped in the school parking lot Feb. 19 admitted she made up the story. "She admitted that it was a consensual encounter," said San Bernardino Lt. Brian Koerner.
During an interview with detectives Wednesday, the girl admitted she made up the rape accusation because they were seen in the parking lot having sex, and she was worried she would get in trouble at home, Koerner said.[2]
This scenario has been played out in many different ways in several different places. Not just on college campuses, but in High Schools and Junior High Schools in places as rough as Bedford-Stuyversant, Brooklyn and the Bronx to “good communities” like Roslyn, Pine Bush, Hewlett and Massapequa in New York. It’s also happening in your State. Few consider the ‘collateral damage’ of false accusations.
In a study that spans almost nine years, sociologist Eugene J. Kanin’s findings were that in the United States, 41% of rape allegations are false. Kanin discovered that most of the false accusers were motivated by a need for an alibi or seeking revenge.[3] There is no difference in the power of the stigma whether the allegation is of sexual misconduct or assault. A man who has to fight that allegation usually looses his good name.
The stigma is borne not just by that man, but his friends and his family. The whispers of backbiters, liars, and so called ‘Christians’ will long stain the decent souls of good men who were just ‘pursuing happiness’ in a society void of rules and respect for victims of any kind. The evidence of this is in print, on microfilm in thousands of libraries and in the psychiatric wards and cemeteries of these United States.
The blog “The False Rape Society” has dozens of posts dealing with the aftermath of being cleared of a false allegation of sexual assault. Go to http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/ . What we don’t seem to have learned from the Duke Rape Trial is that the innocent are usually tried in the Court of public opinion long before they get tried in the Kangaroo Courts and other pseudo-judicial proceedings.
Dick, N.F. and me left the bar to get drunk behind the barn at a mutual friend. We had a bonfire going and Dick took the time to tell us all of what he felt. It’s an anger that I know growing up an outsider in my own world. I believe its somehow even worse dealing with being an outsider when you were once ‘an accepted member’ of society.
All of the accused are outsiders because like Hester Prynne in the “Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, their scarlet letter is in the data base of the Police in the form of an arrest record and in the public access of Court Records. What is worse, no one will ever see them outside the context of the accusation. They will always be ‘the accused’.
It all started innocently enough, they met at Church, they both were taking classes at the same junior college to enhance their careers. Dick described their relationship as ‘really good’. They hadn’t even been intimate sexually…some petting, some lewd and rough language when kidding around but he didn’t even get into her pants. One day at a park outside of Granite, NY, ‘Ellen’ decided to show another side of herself.
The nice decent Church going Executive Assistant in her late 30’s started asking Dick questions about his sexual appetites. Oral sex, anal sex, lubricants, condoms and role playing…all of these questions were put to Dick who answered honestly. It was on Sunday after Church on a walking path when Ellen led Dick by the hand into the woods and asked him to spank her, “hard….spank me hard” said Ellen.
Dick didn’t disappoint her, hoping that this would lead to something more intimate. (little head overriding big head’s rational setting) They left the woods laughing and cooing the way lovers do. A few days later at work, the Police came to talk to Dick. They arrested him for assault. They had pictures of Ellen’s bruised ass and proceeded to persecute him, I mean, prosecute him.
Thank God he had a good lawyer, but lawyers cost money, his reputation at his job (works for the Port Authority) has suffered (now he’s a fetish freak) and since he hasn’t been eating regularly, self medicating and hiding out in bars, his health, mental and physical, has caused him high blood pressure problems that brought on a ‘mild heart attack’. Mentally, he is now questioning his masculinity.
Spiritually, he has been wounded irreparably, he was asked by his Minister to leave his Church. The congregants he used to call ‘Brother’ and ‘Sister’ have nothing to do with him and don’t even call to see if he is alright. He used to play softball with the teenagers and young adults in the Church, now he is Satan. He is finally getting his life back due to his family and real friends staging an intervention (he was going to kill himself).
As we sat at the bar a few very fine young ladies walked by us and gave more than a casual glance. I said ‘good evening’ they smiled and answered back, looking at Dick, N.F. and another dude further down the bar. Dick paid no attention to them at all. I saw the pain and fear in Dick’s face. I saw the anger too. I wondered why this was allowed to happen to Dick. A liberal, politically socialist court hung up on old stereotypes? No wonder!
This isn’t the first time I heard of this happening to ‘good guys’. In fact, false accusations against men have increased exponentially. I looked into this and discovered that this is going on so much the justice department did a study that it didn’t give any fanfare and published under a cloud of obscurity, because the truths in the report were totally damning of a Justice system bankrupt of Justice.
In a 1996 study published by the U.S. Department of Justice: Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence After Trial, the study documents 28 cases which, "with the exception of one young man of limited mental capacity who pleaded guilty," consist of individuals who were convicted by juries and, then, later exonerated by DNA tests.[1]
At the time of release, they had each served an average of 7 years in prison.
Fake assault and rape claims are made every day, they are almost epidemic. Our society is doing a piss poor job of stopping this evil. The so called Justice System on every level, Family Court, Superior Court and Civil Court is complicit in the victimization of men falsely accused of sexual assault or sexual misconduct. The failure causes more than damage to a man or a boy, but to his family and to the community at large.
Many women have more than one motive for making false accusations. Among those reasons may be embarrassment for their own conduct, friends or family finding out about their lascivious life style or to punish a man who jilted them or just pissed them off. Not only is this prevalent in all society and in all the states among adult women, there is a rise of false allegations made by teen girls.
In California, San Bernardino police say a 16-year-old student at Cajon High School who claimed she was raped in the school parking lot Feb. 19 admitted she made up the story. "She admitted that it was a consensual encounter," said San Bernardino Lt. Brian Koerner.
During an interview with detectives Wednesday, the girl admitted she made up the rape accusation because they were seen in the parking lot having sex, and she was worried she would get in trouble at home, Koerner said.[2]
This scenario has been played out in many different ways in several different places. Not just on college campuses, but in High Schools and Junior High Schools in places as rough as Bedford-Stuyversant, Brooklyn and the Bronx to “good communities” like Roslyn, Pine Bush, Hewlett and Massapequa in New York. It’s also happening in your State. Few consider the ‘collateral damage’ of false accusations.
In a study that spans almost nine years, sociologist Eugene J. Kanin’s findings were that in the United States, 41% of rape allegations are false. Kanin discovered that most of the false accusers were motivated by a need for an alibi or seeking revenge.[3] There is no difference in the power of the stigma whether the allegation is of sexual misconduct or assault. A man who has to fight that allegation usually looses his good name.
The stigma is borne not just by that man, but his friends and his family. The whispers of backbiters, liars, and so called ‘Christians’ will long stain the decent souls of good men who were just ‘pursuing happiness’ in a society void of rules and respect for victims of any kind. The evidence of this is in print, on microfilm in thousands of libraries and in the psychiatric wards and cemeteries of these United States.
The blog “The False Rape Society” has dozens of posts dealing with the aftermath of being cleared of a false allegation of sexual assault. Go to http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/ . What we don’t seem to have learned from the Duke Rape Trial is that the innocent are usually tried in the Court of public opinion long before they get tried in the Kangaroo Courts and other pseudo-judicial proceedings.
Dick, N.F. and me left the bar to get drunk behind the barn at a mutual friend. We had a bonfire going and Dick took the time to tell us all of what he felt. It’s an anger that I know growing up an outsider in my own world. I believe its somehow even worse dealing with being an outsider when you were once ‘an accepted member’ of society.
All of the accused are outsiders because like Hester Prynne in the “Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, their scarlet letter is in the data base of the Police in the form of an arrest record and in the public access of Court Records. What is worse, no one will ever see them outside the context of the accusation. They will always be ‘the accused’.
A common representation of Justice is a blind-folded woman holding a set of scales and a sword. The woman is supposed to be the Virtuous Themis, the scales represent impartiality, the sword represents power and the blindfold represents impartiality.
When those who falsely accuse go lightly punished or unpunished the blind fold is a gag, the sword is oppression, the scales weigh the ransom for your life, and the woman – Justice, a whore pimped out to those who can afford her.
This is a warning to all men and women. Be careful how you conduct yourselves. In the words of the O’Jay’s song, “Backstabbers” written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, “A few of your buddies they sure look shady… Blades are long, clenched tight in their fist… Aimin' straight at your back… And I don't think they'll miss.
This is a warning to all men and women. Be careful how you conduct yourselves. In the words of the O’Jay’s song, “Backstabbers” written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, “A few of your buddies they sure look shady… Blades are long, clenched tight in their fist… Aimin' straight at your back… And I don't think they'll miss.
Do be careful!
RJ
[1] False Rape Accusations May Be More Common Than Thought: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 By Wendy McElroy: FOX NEWS
[2] http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/sanbernardinocounty/ci_11795237
[3] "False Allegations: Wrongful Accusations of Rape" – by Karen Stephenson: http://abuse.suite101.com/article.cfm/false_allegations#ixzz0BJaRX9ZC
