"We live in constant fear--fear of future allegations, fear of strangers who see the Sex Offender Registry, fear of retaliation by Eric Olsen for continuing to maintain our son's innocence, fear of our young sons being out without us and without alibis," Cherri Dulaney, the boy's mother, said in her sworn statement. "I have little hope that anyone can undo the damage that has been done to him."
This is a must read. It is the story of how our justice system fails boys falsely accused of rape. Here, a young man was falsely accused of rape and wrongly incarcerated for 17 months. The girl recanted, but the boy still can't clear his name. He's still listed on the state's sex-offender registry. His life has been ripped apart; his family has been forced to move; and even his younger brother has been the target of a false rape accusation, in retaliation for the older brother's "rape."
"I have always taught my boys that if they are honest and law-abiding and respectful, they will be safe in the community," Edgar Dulaney, the boy's father said. "My boys now know that this is not true. [My oldest son] learned a lot at the age of 15 that the 'community' is not always fair, and that his mother and I cannot really protect him."
Undoing the damage is like unringing a bell, or putting the toothpaste back in the tube. This is the kind of case that prompted us to start this blog.
Read the story here: http://falserapearchives.blogspot.com/2009/08/teen-attempts-to-clear-name.html
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When I began reading this piece I was wondering why the suit had a defense lawyer as the target.
Unbelievable.
I wonder what sort of relationship, if any, existed between Detective Gerald Lloyd and court-appointed attorney, Denise Rafferty.
Rafferty was clearly playing for the other side here.
Alternatively is she the Tara Levicy of defense attorneys and Lloyd her co-conspirator?
I'll remain polite and call it "unprofessional".
Both these young people are seriously disenhanced intellectually and are borderline in terms of their capacity to function in our communities. Interestingly she has a record of crossing those borders without really being called to order. Meanwhile he seems to have been relatively stable previously but has now been hounded, probably irretrievably, beyond ALL borders - all for NOTHING.
Surely gender has nothing to do with this.
ha
bloody ha ha
No laughing matter. Our communities have always had a way of showing their true nastiness.
Guess which groups are the easiest targets for this in our time? This boy was perfect. He's male. That on it's own is sufficient for all when a sobbing woman presents. He's a teenage boy. Easy peasy. Throw in the intellectual handicap and the innermost bully gets a geurnsey. He's the ultimate helpless victim for all our rancid ignorant bigotries.
Why do I keep hearing this disjointed chant in the back of my mind...
"Burn the ...! Burn the ...!"
I can never quite get the third word.
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Guys,
I presume you've tried to contact these folks?
Is there a way the site can contribute to their cause as a bloc?
Easier for them too if they don't have to deal with lots of little bits of help when they could have one big one.
To add...
Those responsible for this should be in criminal court - not civil.
Always, always, always, always, always hire a real lawyer! If you plead guilty it's extremely difficult to persuade the legal system that you weren't guilty.
Two mentally retarded kids have sex, they're about the same age -- and the conclusion is that he raped her. What a big surprise.
If that history of false accusations is legit then this kid should be CLEARED. If you convict based on nothing then you should exonerate based on nothing. (Although apparently there was a real sex act involved.)
Enabling false rape accusers is a perversion of the modern American legal system.
The perversion will collapse, for it is an affront to justice, and equal protection of the law. The root of the perversion lies in the new gender feminist / law enforcement "misinformation alliance". By the law enforcements act of "redefining", what the meaning of is, is, they can tell the public that false rape accusations are only 2% of all accusations, when in reality they are NOW MORE THAN 50% ..of all accusations.
This misinformation is faulty and inflammatory, and creates a legal prejudice against innocent men/boys.
The defense attorney should be imprisoned for 7 or 8 years minimum - she is a criminal.
Also they should round up all the people who harassed the family, and put them in jail for at least a few days. Perhaps that will instill some humility in them, even though they will remain lifetime fascists.
"We don't want a rapist in our neighborhood." But if you're going to prosecute everything that moves, you will have a convicted sex offender in every neighborhood. Some of them may be innocent, but they will be on the database listed in your neighborhood, possibly one or two houses from your own, and your property values may be somewhat lower as a result.
I'd like to ask the outraged person who wrote that letter: what's so special about your neighborhood? When you convict this many people you can't lock them all up forever, and they have to be allowed to live somewhere.
"We don't want a rapist in our neighborhood."
Yeah, and we don't want a lying fuck false accuser in ours....
anon for obvious reasons
And it's interesting that we only have databases for convicted sex offenders, and sometimes for domestic violence offenders.
Why not the murderer database, or the drunk driver database, or the people who sell drugs to kids database? Why only SEX SEX SEX? Which is the answer: these databases exist to whip up the public into a frenzy, not to protect anybody. Studies have shown that databases are useless.
The politicians know this, which is why you only have SEX offender databases. But sure, why not have a lying piece of shit database? I'd like to know if the girl next door is someone my son should avoid.
or someone that you should avoid
IMHO, the sex offender registry may have been created for the "protection" of women and children (never mind the men who may become victims) but, it has become another weapon for women and children to use against men.
The sex offender registry also serves as a weapon that is backfiring on states that depend on tourism for revenue. Who wants to visit a place that has people who have been convicted of sexual offenses. Why would women or parents visiting from abroad want to visit a place where the women can be raped or sexually assaulted? What parent wants to have their children put in danger of being preyed upon?
Gwallan, it sounds to me that, for right now, they have done exactly what they need to do to correct an awful situation. The sad part about this story, like so many others, is that we often hear about it only after the damage has been done.
Your note fortified in my mind something that I've been mulling for a while. After Labor Day here in the US (next Monday) -- which we regard as the unofficial end of summer, we need to turn up the heat, so to speak. We need to start challenging the major false rape problems -- the absence of adequate punishments for false accusers, the absence of anonymity for falsely accused persons, and the insistence on arresting men and boys solely on the basis of an accusation, and then setting bail so high that persons of ordinary means are imprisoned for a crime they might not have committed.
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