Comment: The news story below this comment illustrates one of the most common motivations for rape lies: a cry for attention. Prof. Kanin's landmark rape study of a Midwestern town had this to say about such motivations: "Attention/Sympathy-Getting Device. Although this device seems to be the most extravagant use for which a false rape charge is made, it is also the most socially harmless in that no one was identified as therapist. Approximately 18% . . . of the false charges clearly served this function. "
We would add, however, that on this website we sometimes report on cases where rape lies made for attention spiral out of control, and innocent men or boys are nabbed in the web of deceit created by the false accuser. Try to put yourself in the shoes of a hapless male questioned, then arrested and charged for a rape claim that turns out to be a plea for attention. Try to imagine the terror of not knowing if you will spend years in prison, your life essentially destroyed, all because of a lie. Try to imagine the outrage. In fact, unless you've lived through it, it is an unimaginable horror.
In addition, these cries for attention often put entire towns in fear. And sadly, some people use the fear engendered by a rape lie as a warning -- not about false rape claims but about an entirely different crime: rape -- thus, rape lies are used to foment further rape hysteria.
HERE IS THE NEWS STORY:
Aberdeen woman made false rape claim
Allegation was ‘cry for help’
By Kevin Duguid and Catherine Shanks
Published: 05/08/2009
AN ABERDEEN woman who sparked a major police investigation after she falsely accused her former partner of rape today apologised.
Elizabeth Christie, 30, told a detective at Aberdeen’s Grampian Police Headquarters she had been raped by Angus Reid, known as Greig.
Mr Greig was investigated and ordered to appear at a preliminary hearing at the High Court in Aberdeen.
But the accusations against him were not true.
Christie admitted making the false claims when she appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.
Christie today said she made the allegation after suffering a nervous breakdown.
She also said it was a “cry for help” to her family who she said don’t speak to her.
She said: “I realised I shouldn’t have made the statement and I wrote a letter stating I couldn’t go through with the charges, then police charged me.”
Christie said she wanted to put right the mistakes she made.
She said: “I would apologise to my former partner. I did waste a lot of time because CID and forensics were involved.
“It was guilt that made me come clean and I wasn’t sleeping.
“I was getting calls from the police and the procurator fiscal and it was getting to me and so I had to confess.”
Sentence was deferred for reports, including a psychiatric report.
Christie, whose address was given in court papers as 6F Park Street, Aberdeen, is due to appear in court for sentencing next month.
kduguid@ajl.co.uk
Link: http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/1338737?UserKey=
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When are men going to learn about the hidden heterosexual sex refund policy that exists. A rape charge can sneek up and hit him over the head at any time in the future and ruin his life for good.
The Holocaust ... was a cry for help ... says Adolf.
Ponzi Scheme ... was a cry for help ... says Bernie.
Bombing ... was a cry for a help ... says Timothy MV.
The Holocaust ... was a cry for help ... says Adolf.
Exactly. Fuck this feminazi cunt.
sounds to me like a specific guy was targeted. So why does Kanin speak as if all 18% are cases where no rapist is identified? That doesn't even make sense.
So an innocent man or boy must forever live with a Sword of Damocles over his head just so that some femcunt with her "I, Me, My" entitlement claptrap can have some attention?
I echo the unspoken sentiment of my commenters aboveme: BURN IN HELL!
http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/08/04/mother-spared-jail-in-false-rape-claim/
She can rot in hell and her supporters and accomplices can rot in hell.
The system is sick!
This is a subject which needs to be addressed as a priority imo.
The woman in the article probably does have some form of mental illness which she is trying to make other people aware of. and our society's have enabled her to accuse an innocent man of rape. because an accusation of rape is such a huge attention getter, and if found out, she wont be prosecuted, she makes the accusation because she can.
Men and children are suffering from a taboo which no-one wants to acknowledge, and that is female mental illness on a huge scale. not perhaps at this womans level, but a crazyness which is still harmful to others in society.
We cannot continue with one half of the population semi-crazy and unpoliced.
But that throws up big questions as to how to solve the problem of female mental illness.
we can and we should come down hard legally on this type of attention seeking woman, that would stem the flow of false accusations of rape.
but if all we do is criminalize women for making false accusations of rape, we will miss the other abuses that females commit, day-in, day-out, in other areas of their lives, not least with their own children.
I think we in our own societys have now got to step back and acknowledge that a great number of women are indeed mentally unstable and commiting crime, seen and unseen, and that we cannot take a womans word as absolute truth. They have proven that.
I've heard it again and again from women's mouths when the accused and/or the criminal is a male who is claiming ,or his lawyer is claiming, he suffers/suffered from some kind of mental illness, " mental illness is no excuse for what HE did ". If gender feminists and the public in general see a man's mental illness as no excuse to act badly or commit crime, why is it considered excusable for women to do ? If mental illness cannot be used as an excuse for a man to commit crime or act badly, it cannot be used as an excuse by women.
SteveUK,
I don't know that I'd characterize women's inherent emotional instability as true mental illness. Assuming it is this instability (and I guess some related things that you are referring to). But other than that your post is pretty much dead on.
I think some of the main problems are that,
1) Women do not have an innate concept of justice, as do men. This can easily be seen by examining people such as Ruth Bader-Ginsberg. (Remember, 'justice' and 'fairness' are not synonyms. Sometimes women are fair, sometimes not...but the point is that in general, they lack an innate concept of justice).
2) Women seem to take a more personal view of things. For example they consider the impact of a given set of events in terms of how they affect peoples' feelings, or how they affect relationships, rather than how they affect reality. Recent notions such as 'perception is more important than reality' have resulted from this.
3)Women are not as responsible as men, insofar as not only taking responsibility for their own actions, but also 'grabbing the bull by the horns' in terms of wider issues and worldly affairs.
And this is one of the things we need right now to fix what's wrong with society - more responsiblity.
and accountability
Norm said...
I don't know that I'd characterize women's inherent emotional instability as true mental illness.
Yes, I think your right Norm.
When people think hear the term 'mental illness' they think of the extreme end of the spectrum. perhaps 'mentally unstable' or 'personality disorder' or something similar are better terms.
women that commit crime can often claim to have a temporary mental disorder and get away without punishment. I believe that is because deep down, we all know that women are mentally unstable, and society feels sorry for them. The problem is that when women are totally unpoliced and excused from bad behaviour some women who are not as badly affected see it as a way to misbehave without any consequences (for them), and so they do.
but if many women are relying on that excuse in the courts, I think society has a right to investigate, and draw conclusions, and act upon those conclusions.
We must bring female mental instability into the public forum.
* that way, a womens 'mental instability' can work for us, not against us.
im sorry that should have read:
that way, womens 'mental instability' can work for us, not for them.
SteveUK - "We must bring female mental instability into the public forum."
A very valid point - an accusers "mental state" should routinely be considered as a part of any rape investigation.
But, there remain "politically correct" issues (hurtles, really) that police investigators must (be willing to) overcome first. Not least among them, charges of being unsympathetic towards a "victim" of a what is considered a very serious crime.
Any cop knows all too well that if they ever get called on the carpet for hurting the "feelings" of a (supposed) rape victim, it can be a "career-killer" in this hyper-feminized day-and-age.
Still, the accusers mental state, along with her financial state, and even her own potentially criminal involvements (for which she might be trying to use a rape charge as cover) NEED to be considered carefully.
Perhaps we ought to push for "protections" for cops who do seek to do their jobs in circumstance where doing so will anger the feminist agitators.
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