Comment: The shocking news story below (link here) illustrates a point we have made repeatedly on this Web site: For what other alleged crime do we so readily hand one class of citizens the right to deprive another class of citizens their liberty and to destroy their reputations?
Two men were jailed for eight months on a false rape charge based on nothing more than the false report of one woman. Try to imagine the anxiety of not knowing if anyone would believe the truth -- not knowing if they would be imprisoned for decades. There was no other evidence supporting the accuser's story. Finally, police determined that, in fact, she was sending text messages to friends at the time she was allegedly raped. The claim was a lie. The story does not indicate why the investigation took so long.
The two men have been publicly humiliated because their names were published while she retained her anonymity. Her name still is not reported even now. Why? What salutary journalistic policy commends this vile double-standard -- destroy the lives of men accused by one woman of a sex crime by reporting their names, but do not dare to report the name of the woman even after her claim is revealed to have been false? Are not newspapers in the business of airing the truth? Or does this not apply in the politicized arena of alleged sexual assault? And please don't tell me it's because you wait to see if the police charge her. That is inane. You constantly report on all manner of alleged wrongdoing, airing the full story including the names of the wrongdoers, before police charge the wrongdoer. That's because it's news. No, this policy is a double standard of the sexual assault milieu, an area rife with double standards. http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2008/08/rape-double-standards-101.html
One of the men left his two-year-old son in the care of his sister while he was falsely jailed. The man said he is not angry, but his life has been marred, perhaps forever. "I've lost practically everything," he said. "I'm just glad I got to keep him."
Every claim of rape needs to be taken seriously and investigated with all due diligence. Why did this take so long? Why do we allow the presumed innocent to languish in jail for months on a "he said-she said" allegation where there is no other evidence? Why do we allow their names to be splashed all over the news based on one person's say-so?
Following the encounter at issue and the woman's accusation, either she committed a crime (false reporting) or they did (rape). Why are they alone jailed when there were competing allegations? Why is her allegation (and only hers) presumed to be true despite the purported presumption of innocence? And now that we know who committed the crime, why are we still treating her as if she's a "victim"?
In a bow to political correctness, we, as a society, have handed far too much power to rape accusers. As shown repeatedly on this Web site, and as confirmed in every serious study ever conducted on the subject, false rape claims are a significant problem. We must not allow them to use the power of the state to destroy presumed innocent men and boys -- many of whom turn out to be factually innocent -- prior to a conviction.
HERE IS THE NEWS STORY:
Cell phone records lead to dismissal of rape charges
By Greg Orear
Daily Express
Tue Feb 24, 2009, 01:12 PM CST
KIRKSVILLE — After spending the last eight months in jail accused of a crime he didn’t commit, Tim Rogers said he isn’t angry, even if he did miss what should have been a memorable moment.
“I’ve got a two-year-old boy that my sister raised for me,” Rogers said. “I missed out on his first words ... that is something that can never be replaced.”
Rogers and a friend, Glen Johnson, were arrested July 1 on rape charges based on the accusation of one woman, whom Rogers said he had just met June 12. She told police the men met her at a Kirksville gas station, drove her out to a gravel road outside of the city limits, and raped her.
Despite the lack of any physical or medical evidence, witnesses, or other corroborating evidence, the two men, who had never been convicted of a felony, were arrested within days. With cash-only bonds of $150,000 and $100,000 respectively, Rogers and Johnson remained in custody until Monday, when the charges were dropped by the State Attorney’s General office.
According to Johnson’s attorney, Ed Campbell, the state dropped the charges after releasing cell phone records that contradicted the accuser’s testimony.
“Bottom line is there was finally evidence produced to reflect she was actually text messaging people when she claimed she was being raped,” Campbell said.
Public defender Kevin Locke, who represented Rogers, said there were numerous inconsistencies in this case.
“Working with Ed Campbell’s office, we were able to develop some evidence that created several doubts about her claims,” Locke said. “From all appearances, she lied about this, and it took us this long to prove it.”
Campbell called it a very unfortunate situation.
“There needs to be something done that there is some physical evidence required to hold a person in jail,” he said. “For these guys to sit in jail for the amount of time they sat in jail with the evidence that was out there, is absolutely ludicrous.”
Adair County Prosecutor Mark Williams quickly turned the case over to the Attorney General’s office due to assistant prosecutor’s Kristin Coffman defense of Rogers on a previous rape charge in 2000, for which he was acquitted. However, the charges were still filed by an Adair County grand jury in August 2008.
“That’s the whole problem with the grand jury,” Campbell said. “They only hear one side of the story, her side. In my opinion, this is a terrible miscarriage of justice and it’s a terrible price these two had to pay.”
During his first night of freedom since July, Rogers simply tried making up for the lost time.
“I stayed home with my son,” he said. “I’ve lost practically everything. I’m just glad I got to keep him.”
Link: http://www.kirksvilledailyexpress.com/news/x1749106803
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But the TV says women would never, ever, lie about something like this??
This is akin to the thousands of rape kits sitting untouched in police evidence lockers because police have better things to do: bust people for smoking or selling cannabis. Legalize cannabis and give the police the chance to solve rape and murder cases!
88, the feminist reasoning for keeping the true percentages of false rape accusations from the public (it's not 2%) needs to be discussed because this faulty and inflammatory misinformation is building a prejudice against men...using faulty and inflammatory misinformation.
Innocent until proven guilty? psht.. They had to PROVE that she was lying, thus this invalidates the idea that one is not guilty until proven so. As well, how in the hell could they be kept in jail with zero evidence beyond testimony. that's a real pile of wank.
88, Anonymous,
The 2% figure: Warren Farrell (author of the Myth of Male Power) relates what happened when he called N.O.W. directly by phone, and asked a high-ranking person in that organization what the 2% figure was based on, did they have any source for that. The response he said, is that they admitted they had nothing to back it up.
It's complete fiction. They pulled it out their a**. It's as simple as that. And the public has come to believe it as gospel after 25 years of repetition along with feminist indoctrination.
How does the US "justice" system work? Once an accusation is made, the prosecutor decides whom to prosecute. Often the basis for the decision is how much a conviction will help the prosecutor's career. Guilt or innocence is immaterial. Once the accused is thrown into the meat grinder of the system, the procedure is simple:
1) Request a high bail so the person cannot get out of jail. If the accused comes up with the money, ask the judge for a higher bail.
2) Let the accused languish in jail for months. The accused's will to fight the charge will diminish with each passing day of ghastly food and separation from family. Also, jailed people cannot earn money to finance their defense.
3) Using threats of decades of incarceration, pressure the accused to accept a plea bargain.
Of course, police are never supposed to question a rape accusation. But, in reality, guilt does not make a difference. This case sounds like a pretty standard demonstration of government tactics.
I believe that legal professionals that knowingly and willingly try to prosecute innocent men/boys (Like Michael Knifong did), should face jail time.
We need to pass along to the legal/law enforcement community that knowingly and willingly harming innocent men to feed off a cultural hysteria (no matter how shreikingly loud), will get you in trouble.
In so few words all of you are telling the truth. It was Marilyn French who wrote the following "all men are rapists and that's all they are" Feminists have held these words dear. I have yet to hear one feminist counter any of the misandric words,theories, etc. that feminists have spewed over the decades. This should tell you someting, they support the demonizing and criminalizing of men.
" How does the US "justice" system work? Once an accusation is made, the prosecutor decides whom to prosecute. Often the basis for the decision is how much a conviction will help the prosecutor's career. Guilt or innocence is immaterial. Once the accused is thrown into the meat grinder of the system, the procedure is simple:
1) Request a high bail so the person cannot get out of jail. If the accused comes up with the money, ask the judge for a higher bail.
2) Let the accused languish in jail for months. The accused's will to fight the charge will diminish with each passing day of ghastly food and separation from family. Also, jailed people cannot earn money to finance their defense.
3) Using threats of decades of incarceration, pressure the accused to accept a plea bargain.
Of course, police are never supposed to question a rape accusation. But, in reality, guilt does not make a difference. This case sounds like a pretty standard demonstration of government tactics." How true. The government has allowed feminism to infilterate it's ranks and infect it with so much BS that fairness and equality are only considered such, when they benefit feminists and their ilk. It seems the entire government has become an anti male system that caters only to women. I know this is true in Tennessee, a woman's state.
It is a shame neither the criminal liar or the state can ever give back to this man what has been stolen from him.
True. He is yet another real victim of feminism to be ignored by the system and, of course feminists.
88,
There are pro-legalization men among MRA's so don't play divisive games. BTW,does your handle mean the Duke 88?
Isn't it time for a false accuser register? I mean they have sex offenders registers. Full name publication should be compulsory.
Women are becoming and probably always have been a waste of space
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