"A MOTHER who claimed she was the victim of a brutal rape, sparking a manhunt involving up to 40 police officers, has been jailed after admitting she made up the allegations."
"Emma Louise Goodwin, 25, was sentenced to eight months in prison after a court heard the claim was a cry for help when she feared her relationship with her boyfriend might be over."
So to try to fix what appears to be a broken relationship, you make up a story about being raped? This seems like an idea doomed to failure from the start. Unfortunately, someone unrelated to either Ms. Goodwin or her boyfriend was caught up in the fabrication.
"Goodwin provided an e-fit of the suspect, leading to the arrest of an innocent man who was held in custody overnight and released on bail."
Interestingly, the man who was arrested was not named. And to his good fortune, he was released the next morning. However, what terror did this man endure during the night, wondering why he had been arrested for something he did not do? This, sadly, is one of the things that dispassionate outsiders bother to talk about when contemplating the subject of false rape -- the mental and emotional toil that the falsely accused must suffer, not knowing if the truth will prevail.
The judge in the case, James Barry, while acknowledging the less-than-ideal life of the accuser, made the following statement:
"Everyone must know that this sort of sabotage of the justice system, the squandering of public resources and endangering the liberty of an innocent man results in imprisonment."
While 8 months may seem like a light sentence, owing the the quick recantation by the accuser, its seems an appropriate and fitting sentence.
The true victims, in this case, are an innocent man, and an equally innocent 7 year old girl, Ms. Goodwin's daughter.
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http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Jail-for-woman-who-owned.920899.jp
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"Everyone must know that this sort of sabotage of the justice system, the squandering of public resources and endangering the liberty of an innocent man results in imprisonment."
I know of no place where this is more true than here in Tennessee. An honorable woman will tell the truth and never seek to ruin/destroy the life of an innocent man. A woman who lies and ruins/destroys a man's life has no honor but, the state will uphold the dishonor of a woman they know to be lying/have been lying and come at the accused man with everything in their gender biased/misandric agenda to "get tough on crime".
Chivalry and misandry are rampant here
Repeals of CAPTA (false child abuse) and VAWA (false domestic and sexual violence) at the Federal level in the USA would start to end the disparity in dispositions between men and women in these cases.
Dean Tong, MSc.
abuse-excuse.com
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