Here we have a case of a woman falsely accused of raping a teen boy, all for what appears to be revenge.
Several things immediately come to mind. Why isn't the accused referred to as an "accused rapist"? Why isn't the boy referred to as the 'victim'? The only difference I can see in this case, is that the supposed 'rapist' is female, and the 'rapee' is male.
The one question that isn't answered, is why did the roomate lie/change her story? What prompted her to give the wrong information in the first place?
"Accused rapist", has charges dropped.
Everything was in place to prosecute Catherine Cates — except a solid case.
Attorneys spent all morning picking a jury to hear the case against Cates, 30, accused of having sex with her neighbor, a 13-year-old boy. The boy and his mother were waiting in the wings to see whether she would be convicted. Cates was brought into court in handcuffs.
But before the judge arrived, a witness came forward to disclose new information behind closed doors.
Within the first few minutes of the trial, the case was dropped.
Cates was caught breathless and began to cry, said her defense attorney John Walsh.
She had been charged with four counts of child rape, a first-degree felony, and sexual abuse of a child, a second-degree felony. Behind closed doors, one of Cates' female roommates arrived at court with new details about her previous testimony.
The roommate previously said that she had walked in on the woman and the boy having sex in her Millcreek home. But on Monday afternoon, she changed her story.
"She never walked in," Walsh said. "She never believed or heard that they were having sex."
Defense attorneys speculated that the whole case was nothing more than a revenge plot — the boy's mother wanting to get back at Cates after a fight they had. During a preliminary hearing, when the boy stumbled over dates and couldn't describe details about Cates' body. The roommate's changed testimony was apparently the final nail in the coffin.
Walsh decried the idea that Cates had to suffer indignity and imprisonment for accusations so quickly dropped.
"To go from grave consequences to nothing, it's alarming enough," he said.
Since the case was dismissed after a jury had been selected, the prosecution cannot bring the same charges against Cates in the future, even if new evidence or witnesses come forward.
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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705309373/Rape-charges-dropped-against-woman.html
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Walsh decried the idea that Cates had to suffer indignity and imprisonment for accusations so quickly dropped.
"To go from grave consequences to nothing, it's alarming enough," he said.
Could we say:
Women who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience?
Offtpic;
Obama kicks off a national conversation on fatherhood
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Anonymous said...
" Women who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience? "
You know the feminazis would love to see you castrated,peeled like an onion and, burned alive at the stake for even suggesting such a thing. Interesting point though.
This woman is lucky on so many levels. How could a man,in the same position hope to get so lucky?
Without knowing any more than the meager details the Deseret reports it's hard to draw any conclusions from this case, but if she is innocent she should be freed.
If it's the case that she's innocent then the mother of the boy needs to be brought to justice for her false rape accusation.
Obama is once again using Fathers Day as an opportunity to bash men. The legal system kicks men out of their families and grinds them to a pulp and who do we blame? -- men! Nothing is ever the fault of women or their would-be spokespeople and allies.
"Obama is once again using Fathers Day as an opportunity to bash men. The legal system kicks men out of their families and grinds them to a pulp and who do we blame? -- men! Nothing is ever the fault of women or their would-be spokespeople and allies."
And then they wonder why men flee in the opposite direction a.k.a MGTOW when it comes to women.
I've usually voted Left in the past, but one thing that's recently dawned on me is that looking over the last 20-30 years, the Democratic party has been doing everything in its power alienate (white) men. Glad I didn't vote. Maybe I should write in a candidate next time.
does anyone think porn is the only business still thriving during the credit cruch? I think many folks seek refuge in buying and wanking porn during the crunch
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