Woman Who Made False Rape Charge Is Guilty of Perjury
A woman who in 2005 falsely accused a man of rape, leading to his wrongful conviction and imprisonment, pleaded guilty on Monday to two counts of perjury.
The woman, Biurny Gonzalez, 27, acknowledged in State Supreme Court in Manhattan that she had falsely testified under oath before a grand jury and during a trial when she asserted that the man, William McCaffrey, had sexually assaulted her.
Mr. McCaffrey, 32, an interior contractor, was convicted of rape in 2006 and began serving a 20-year sentence. But this past spring, Ms. Gonzalez recanted, first confessing to a priest that she had lied, then telling prosecutors.
“You know that the testimony you gave was false?” Justice Charles H. Solomon asked her. “William McCaffrey did not have sexual interactions with you by forcible compulsion?”
“Yes,” Ms. Gonzalez answered.
The seeds of her false story were sown about 5 a.m. on Sept. 18, 2005, when Mr. McCaffrey approached Ms. Gonzalez — who then went by the name of her husband at the time, Peguero — and her friends outside a restaurant in Inwood.
Court papers filed by Mr. McCaffrey said that after he invited Ms. Gonzalez to an after-hours party, he got into a parked car, where she was sitting with a friend, and they drove off.
Mr. McCaffrey and Ms. Gonzalez later went to a parking garage and transferred to a friend’s van to continue to the party.
They turned back after Ms. Peguero got a barrage of cellphone calls from friends, court papers say. The attendant at the garage testified at the rape trial that some of Ms. Peguero’s friends showed up and got in her car with her, “yelling and hitting each other.” The fight was so fierce that one of the women kicked and broke a window in a car, according to court papers.
The next day, Ms. Peguero accused Mr. McCaffrey of threatening her with a knife and assaulting her. The court papers said she invented the rape to cover for the fight.
Last year, a DNA test showed that bite marks on Ms. Peguero’s arm and shoulder the morning she reported the rape could not have been made by Mr. McCaffrey — the genetic material lacked a Y chromosome, meaning that it could not have come from a man.
Mr. McCaffrey was released from prison in September. He is waiting for a judge to void his indictment and conviction, which could happen as early as this week.
Ms. Gonzalez was scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 9 and faced 2 1/3 to 7 years in prison, though Justice Solomon has the authority to impose a lesser sentence. He warned Ms. Gonzalez, who lives in Union City, N.J., with her husband and two children, that although she is a legal resident of the United States, her guilty plea could result in deportation to the Dominican Republic, where she was born.
A religious reawakening prompted Ms. Gonzalez to admit her misdeeds to a priest at St. Anthony’s parish in Union City, her lawyer, Paul F. Callan, said.
“It was very wrong what she did in the first place,” he said. “But in the end she found her way to do the right thing, the courageous thing, the just thing.”
On Monday, Ms. Gonzalez declined to discuss the case as she left the courthouse clutching the arm of her husband, Julio Mejia.
“I don’t want to talk about it,” she said. “No, not at all.”
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/nyregion/08freed.html
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She should be put in a room with women who have been raped so they can teach her something. She should also stand before the femination and thank them for making it possible for her to destroy an innocent man's life. Just think of all of the horrible things people said about this man. This should be a slap in their faces.
I only underscores the importance of our work for the presumed innocent. Even those found "guilty" too often turn out to be factually innocent.
pierce, as someone who was falsely accused of rape, and a law enforcement culture that has been perverted to hide and manufacture misinformation...you are truly a hero .
Its time to Break the new gender feminist / law enforcement misinformation Alliance...it is a stain on our legal system and our constitution.
It's really sick that we live in a country that you can be put in prison based on some woman's word when NOTHING even happened.
I bet this woman will not even serve the amount of time that he did.
Think of how rotten of a person you have to be to do what she did.
Seriously she deserves 25 to life and if she ever gets out she should be on a sex offender registry for life.
I wonder how many other guys are in prison on similar cases?
I seriously think we need to go back to the days where we required corroborating evidence for a rape convictions. Sorry, but the harm to the innocent so far outweighs the harm to a rape victim who might see her rapist walk. We need to err far more heavily on the side of the presumed inncocent. The interests of the falsely accused far outweigh the interest of a rape victim -- even if a victim sees her rapist convicted, that won't undo the rape. But putting an innocent man in prison for a rape he didn't commit is inexcusable under any circumstance.
Somehow, this nation has developed the screwball notion that the interests of rape victims and of men who might be falsely convicted of rape are equivalent when they are not. It's apples and oranges. I need to do a post on this one.
"Sorry, but the harm to the innocent so far outweighs the harm to a rape victim who might see her rapist walk."
Absolutely.
But rape has become sacred; it has ascended to occupy its own space, quite apart from all other crimes. The mere questioning that it might be worse to falsely accuse a man and destroy his life, than to be raped, is itself taboo; for it violates the special sanctity of rape, and the proponents of such ideas are subsequently vilified as 'rape apologists'.
IT IS TIME WE END SUCH NONSENSE. To say that comparing the suffering of two different horrific crimes is equivalent to apologising for one of them is TOTALLY ABSURD.
Right, Snark. But we don't even need to compare the two side by side. We are comparing a terrible crime by a criminal that is a fait accompli with a potentially terrible injustice that can be avoided by the state.
Rape has ALREADY OCCURRED -- it was committed by A CRIMINAL. It can't be undone, even if the rapist is convicted.
A false rape conviction HASN'T OCCURRED YET -- and if it happens, it will be accomplished by THE STATE, not a criminal. And it is within the power of the STATE to prevent it.
See? We're not even comparing two horrible acts side by side and asking "which is worse." Now, if we were comparing them side by side, a false rape accusation is often more terrible than a rape.
[The mere question that it might be worse to falsely accuse a man and destroy his life, than to be raped, is itself taboo]
Believing that Rape cannot destroy a woman's life is the fundamental reason why nobody takes these sites seriously.
Gonzalez was brave to come forward knowing the consequences of her lies. How often do rapists come clean about their transgressions? None that I know of except Beebe, former UVA student. UVA is currently under the gun for letting too many rapists off the hook -- 'scuse the pun'
I believe that it would be appropriate to demand that these women who falsely “cry rape” to speak openly to give reason for their accusation and deception. I am curious as to why any women would lie in the first place and continue at the expense of a innocent man and of course his family and friends. I have many times wished I could confront my son’s accuser and ask her to explain herself; the chance will never present itself. If a man can be openly charged, arrested with little or no probable cause, railroaded by the police, prosecution and the press, then, as turnabout is considered fair play, why can we not expect her to answer the tough questions? These women should not be able to hang their collective heads stating they are confuse, embarrassed, ashamed, or my favorite, “found God” as a way to justify what they have done. These are not poor, dear, misguided women; they are indeed calculating, vindictive, deceitful and without a clear sense of right and wrong. There is nothing wrong in expecting the accuser, the very person that tore your world apart, to explain to all “why.”
"Believing that Rape cannot destroy a woman's life is the fundamental reason why nobody takes these sites seriously."
What on earth are you talking about? OF COURSE rape can destroy a person's life. The reason critics like you aren't taken seriously is that you talk out of your ass without bothering to read what you're criticizing. You've pegged us as "women haters" when the fact is, we KNOW rape can be a terrible crime.
Anon at 4:34 said: "How often do rapists come clean about their transgressions?"
Um, do you have any idea how many confessions and plea bargains are entered into for the crime of rape? I do. Please go haunt some other site. We cater to victims of false rape claims and their loved ones here, and you are insulting and minimizing their victimization with your self-righteous hatred.
Mary H: good comment.
"Believing that Rape cannot destroy a woman's life is the fundamental reason why nobody takes these sites seriously."
I hate to be the one to bring this up, but rape doesn't only destroy a woman's life. Plenty of Men get raped too, yet we hear no where near the sympathy for them.
Rape is horrible and life ruining no matter who you are or what gender you are.
However, archivist is right, no matter the pain a rape victim has suffered, we can't let that fear cause us to become as bad as the criminal by demolishing the lives of the innocent. When the state acts, it is us, we are the state, do you want to be responsible for putting innocent Men in prison? or ruining an innocent Mans life? Purely because we were too lazy to search for correct evidence and give him the benefit of the doubt?
Right, Veldang. Very well said.
"Gonzalez was brave to come forward knowing the consequences of her lies."
Oh Puh-leeeeze!
BS!!!
The fact is, that save for her priest insistence (and flat-out threat to do it himself if she continued to refuse to do so), she would not have come clean at all. And, even before coming clean, she sought to have complete immunity for what she had done.
These stories of her braveness, her struggles with guilt, and the difficulties she may now face are NOTHING compared to what she has put an entirely innocent man through.
And, she had ample opportunity to end the whole ordeal well before he was convicted, sentenced and hauled off to prison.
I wish the news outlets would quit praising her, and focus instead on William McCaffrey - all that he has lost, all that he has suffered, and the very difficult road he faces in trying to rebuild his life from the ruins her lies have left.
Gonzalez was basically forced to admit what she'd done. She's not brave. She's still the craven coward who would send a man to prison rather than have to admit to her friends that she had lied to them (about something so minor, at that).
If there is any justice in the world Gonzalez's face should be plastered all over the news, her friends should all abandon her, and people should look at her with disgust whenever and where ever they see her.
Perhaps she should be made to do a public service announcement (TV commercial) in which she explains that she sent an innocent man to prison, and that it's a serious crime to lie about rape. And, airtime for that announcement should be paid for out of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office budget (nobody there getting any raises or promotions for two years to pay for it, and the pictures of the detectives and individual prosecutors involved in the case hung on the wall (of shame) as a reminder to everyone else there why they're not getting raises).
The only heroes in all this were the priest to forced the issue, and The Innocence Project (which, as I understand it, took up his cause and did the DNA testing which demonstrated that he was not the one who had bitten Gonzalez - the one piece of physical evidence which was instrumental in convicting him).
Gonzalez was brave to come forward knowing the consequences of her lies.
BRAVE? Are you serious? If her priest hadn't been willing to foreswear his duties, and was willing to accept the punishment for it, HE was going to step up and tell the police what she did. SHE WASN'T. That isn't brave. That is the ultimate act of a coward.
You make me sick.
"Believing that Rape cannot destroy a woman's life is the fundamental reason why nobody takes these sites seriously."
Since this was directed at me, I feel I should respond!
Anon, I certainly never meant to imply that. So I apologise that you took that away from my comment.
The fact that rape can destroy a woman's - or a man's - life is uncontroversial; this is accepted everywhere you look.
What is not accepted or acknowledged in most places is the fact that a false rape accusation can completely destroy an innocent man in every conceivable sense.
Hence my emphasis was on the latter - I was taking the former for granted. As I assumed any honest person would.
Well put, Snark. But for the person who took so much offense, why must we always be defending ourselves here? This site isn't about RAPE. It's about a totally different crime, one that is largely ignored.
slwerner,
Looks like we responded with basically the same message. I shudder for innocent men when people like anon call a woman like Gonzalez brave.
"Well put, Snark. But for the person who took so much offense, why must we always be defending ourselves here? This site isn't about RAPE. It's about a totally different crime, one that is largely ignored."
You are totally correct, but I find it worth responding civilly and clearly stating our position when challenged - because of the propaganda out there (and I have seen it), stating that MRAs are rape apologists, wife beaters, etc.
It is absurd, because the kind of men who beat their wives and commit rape are categorically NOT MRAs.
I would not be surprised to find out that Anon was a troll - but regardless, for our audience, it's worth refuting bullshit claims. Somebody who has only read feminist propaganda about MRAs and happens by here probably believes that we really don't object to rape. It's worth setting them straight on this and other issues on which we have been mischaracterised.
Pierce,
I just posted a response to scott in the post before this one. It was something of an Epiphany when I was reading scott's response.
The reason we are constantly attacked, and must defend ourselves, is because those who blindly support the "industry" around rape, know, that if they acknowledge what we are saying as valid, they will have ceded a very real amount of thier power to control the discourse and the funds that involved with the issue.
Of course, the above is my opinion, and is subject to debate, but I can't really come up with much else.
As an example of serious mischaracterisation of our position, I recently saw a feminist 'explanation' of the Men's Rights Movement, which claimed that MRAs believe that the accuser should be charged for every rape allegation which does not lead to a conviction.
What an utterly cowardly misrepresentation of what we stand for ... and yet people will believe this. We're not yet big enough to be heard all the time; for the time being, we are 'on the back foot' so to speak, and I'm quite willing to be politely but firmly defensive when confronted with a mischaracterisation (MRAs don't oppose rape, etc.)
Speaking as a parent of a young woman that was raped and most recently a son falsely accused of rape, both of victims of a horrendous crime. I have read with great interest not only the articles presented but the comments. I have never felt as though the purpose of the FRS was to minimize the suffering and pain that a woman who has been raped goes through. Theirs is to bring to light the other side of the coin; to be falsely accused of rape is, by my experience, no less traumatic. I was told, when my daughter was raped, that most rapes happen by someone that you are acquainted with, is this not true in false rape accusations? We were also informed that it probably was not so much a sexual act, but a display of power that her rapist desired over her, is this not again true with false rape accusations. Aren’t these women who falsely accuse men of rape having some sort of power play going on, time and time again DNA proves that there was no sexual contact, so could it be some latent sexual desire being played out in some deviant mind? It is, as with my daughter and my son, a struggle, but let there be no mistake about it, what happened to my daughter has never been minimized by what happen to my son, or vice versa. This site has given hope to many, you know you are not alone, and done so without hurting or diminishing the plights of the legitimate rape victims.
Snark,
See my above post. I think at this point, the "rape industry" is worried about losing control of the discussion, as it will decrease thier power and funding. I will agree that civil discourse should occur, but there IS a time for flat out anger and bile. The problem is deciding which one is appropriate.
Mary H,
Thank you. That sums it up rather nicely.
What is amazing, is that there are sites too numerous to mention taht deal with rape victims and the aftermath they live.
We are one of only a handful that deal with the problem that is False Rape Accusations.
I would challenge anon to explain why there is such a problem with supporting victims of a crime other than rape? Is it the fact, that the false accusation stems from an accusation of rape? We don't get involved, and post a story, until it is believed to be a false rape report. And it isn't us, that makes that determination. It is law enforcement.
So what exactly is it, that makes what we do so problematic?
Rape is a terrible crime and rapists are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The problem is now there are so many false rape accusations, and innocent men and boys are getting their lives ruined.
When state and federal dollars are used to manufacture rape statistics, and when the law enforcement community uses state and federal dollars to "re-define" what the meaning of is, is, in order to mislead the public about the true percentages of false rape accusations....this is where they have crossed some very real constitutional boundaries.
When law enforcement misilead the public with the faulty and inflammatory misinformation that false rape accusations are only 2%..when they are more close to 50%..this misinformation builds a legal pre-judice against innocent men / boys.
This site is a problem for the Rape hysteria Klan. Not unlike the lynchings of the black man in early American history, Rape hysteria is a super destructive and powerfull force, and gender feminists have used "rape hysteria" as the root of their empire.
They have then surrounded "Rape hysteria" with a protective cloud of misinformation for so long...that they see the very real danger that the truth will come out..and deflate their choke hold over men / boys/ children/ and society.
It is a perversion of our legal system that has enabled the false rape epidemic that many universities are now experiencing.
Archivist, nothing in my 4:34 challenges or disagrees with you, so why the smoke screens? The biggest smoke screen being that people begrudge your cause. Not so, and they're not man-haters either.
Your daily commentary does not always deal with FRAs. You'd be wise to respectfully accept outsiders' opinions regardless of the topic.
Slwerner, you look awful sexy when you're mad >>>>
"The biggest smoke screen being that people begrudge your cause. Not so, and they're not man-haters either."
Listen, if you read this blog as you say you do, you'd understand this: the persons who dominate the public discourse, and hence shape the laws and public policy, about rape are extremist rape feminists and the sexual grievance industry. While the vast majority of Americans would agree with pretty much everything we say here, they are not zealots when it comes to rape. The problem is that laws and public policy are shaped by the zealots, and the three major areas I note on the right side of the page ("About this web site") are problems precisely because the persons who dominate the public discourse about rape allow them to be problems. THAT is what we're fighting here.
My apologies in advance for the length of this post.
Archivist, nothing in my 4:34 challenges or disagrees with you, so why the smoke screens? The biggest smoke screen being that people begrudge your cause.
Maybe, because they do begrudge it. There is absolutely no other explanation for why people such as yourself, Jeana, Atom/Georgia Girl, Renee, and various others who are self proclaimed feminists, come to this site, and constantly try to change the discussion to rape and away from False Rape Accusations. If our cause wasn’t begrudged, then why would you constantly attempt to change what is discussed here?
The mere question that it might be worse to falsely accuse a man and destroy his life, than to be raped, is itself taboo
Believing that Rape cannot destroy a woman's life is the fundamental reason why nobody takes these sites seriously.
And where exactly was it stated that rape doesn’t destroy a woman’s life? I seriously doubt that it destroys every woman’s life. It changes it, but I know 2 women who HAVE been raped, and they refused to let it destroy them. They used it to make themselves stronger. You might keep that in mind before making a rather encompassing declaration on behalf of all women who have been raped.
I’m sure that if you asked William McCaffery which he would prefer, to be raped 1 time, or spend 4 years in jail for something he didn’t do, during which is the very real possibility of being raped numerous times, he would choose the former.
And please, show me a single smoke screen I put up? Would that be when I said we are one of the very few sites that deal with the problem of False Rape Accusations? I notice you didn't even bother to address a single one of my questions, instead you decided to deflect, as most feminists do who refuse to be honest about the problem of False Rape Accusations.
Your daily commentary does not always deal with FRAs. You'd be wise to respectfully accept outsiders' opinions regardless of the topic.
Thanks for the suggestion. We run at least 1 story every day that deals with an FRA. While Pierce may post on other topics as well, that deal with the very real problems that feminism has contributed to, this particular post is about an FRA.
If you want to talk about respect, I recommend that when you are on this site, commenting on a post about an FRA, you should be the one to respect those who have been falsely accused, such as Scott, AFOR, Mary H’s son, CBGirl’s husband, and the numerous others who come here, join the discussion, and learn that, what is happening or has happened to them, they are not alone. This site is in support of those individuals.
The denigration that is shown to them, by those several paragraphs up, highlights the need for this site, and like it or not, we aren’t going anywhere. Indeed, I expect we will begin to expand what we do, to involve more direct support of those falsely accused.
We’d welcome your help, whether it’s activism on behalf of, monetary support of, or just being a friend to those falsely accused.
THAT, is why we are here.
Oprah claims she was raped.
It didn't stop her from living a totally lavish lifestyle and making a gazillion dollars.
Compare that with the guy that was in prison for 4 years for nothing in this article.
And don't forget the guy that served 4 years is not even as bad as it gets. Some guys have been killed over a FRA and others in prison for decades or even life.
A false accusation IMO can easily be way way way worse.
Anonymous said...
[The mere question that it might be worse to falsely accuse a man and destroy his life, than to be raped, is itself taboo]
Believing that Rape cannot destroy a woman's life is the fundamental reason why nobody takes these sites seriously.
Gonzalez was brave to come forward knowing the consequences of her lies. How often do rapists come clean about their transgressions? None that I know of except Beebe, former UVA student. UVA is currently under the gun for letting too many rapists off the hook -- 'scuse the pun'
Dec 8, 2009 4:34:00 PM
Speaking of rape, without adhering to the feminist metanarratives and such, is strictly forbidden in the U.S. Speaking of false rape accusations, it seems, makes people, indoctrinated in feminist metanarratives and theorires, think one is a rapist trying to justify rape when in fact, it isn't. When I speak of false rape accusations, as well as false accusations of other types, I am direct and to the point. I make my intentions very clear from the beginning. Many people thought I was a rapist until they listened and heard me out.
I myself ,and others here, would never suggest that rape doesn't destroy or ruin any victim's life. However, I and others cannot and will not ignore the damage and destruction of the live's of those wrongfully accused and wrongfully punished.
With rape a person is taken by force. With a false rape accusation the accused is violated as well. Imagine being forced to strip and stand naked before total strangers and have every square inch of your body virtually examined under a microscope. Against you will, one or more persons comb your pubic hair, not caring if they yank any out. Having your body swabbed. I spoke to one police officer who said they even take a thick q-tip type swab and ram it into the man's penis. It hurts like hell but, "it has to be done". Imagine having your face presented before the public everday and splattered all over the front page of newspapers for the whole world to see.
Imagine all of your friends and family abandoning you to the wolves. Imagine facing years in prison at the "mercy" of inmates who discover what you are in for. Imagine years of your life taken away imagine being registered as a sex offender for life and then it happens (maybe), Your accuser is discovered to have lied, or they recant their accusation. All of the hell you had to endure for what? Sorry, not meaning to seem hostile or verbally abusive. I just want to convey to you what the falsely accused experience too many times. For the falsely acused there are no victim's advocates. The media that ate the whole story up and sensationalized it, are nowhere to be found when the accused is discovered to be innocent and those who had horrible things to say about the accused, are silent and have disappeared into the shadows, until another rape claim is made then, they are back in business.
We know very well there have been real rapists let off the hook just as, we know there have been false accusers who have been let off the hook.
Anonymous said...
It's really sick that we live in a country that you can be put in prison based on some woman's word when NOTHING even happened.
I bet this woman will not even serve the amount of time that he did.
Think of how rotten of a person you have to be to do what she did.
Seriously she deserves 25 to life and if she ever gets out she should be on a sex offender registry for life.
I wonder how many other guys are in prison on similar cases?
Dec 8, 2009 3:36:00 PM
" It's really sick that we live in a country that you can be put in prison based on some woman's word when NOTHING even happened".
The sexist and unconstitutional crime bill known as VAWA has made this possible. We have the late Andrea Dworkin, Catherine Commins, former senator (now Vice President) Joseph Biden and, former President Bill Clinton to "thank" for this, as well as, all of the feminists who pushed for such a disriminatory crime bill to become law.
"I bet this woman will not even serve the amount of time that he did".
There is this;
"Ms. Gonzalez was scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 9 and faced 2 1/3 to 7 years in prison, though Justice Solomon has the authority to impose a lesser sentence".
(ahem)
"Think of how rotten of a person you have to be to do what she did".
IMHO, it takes an extemely vile person to falsely accuse anyone of a crime.
"Seriously she deserves 25 to life and if she ever gets out she should be on a sex offender registry for life".
I understand what you mean but, I think having the same sentence that was imposed upon Mr. McCaffrey imposed upon her plus the full sentence due for commtiing perjury/aggravated perjury would do well to serve as an example of what one will get if they commit the same crime this woman committed. She should also have to be on a registry of false accusers/perverters of justice and, forced to compensate her victim.
"I wonder how many other guys are in prison on similar cases"?
It seems nobody in the systems are even the slightest bit interested in computing/compilling such data. One can imagine what the reactions from feminist would be if anyone dared to attempt such a feat.
I do imagine the number to be quite high.
Archivist said...
"I seriously think we need to go back to the days where we required corroborating evidence for a rape convictions".
I couldn't agree more. Corroborating evidence must be required for any conviction(s).
"Sorry, but the harm to the innocent so far outweighs the harm to a rape victim who might see her rapist walk. We need to err far more heavily on the side of the presumed inncocent. The interests of the falsely accused far outweigh the interest of a rape victim -- even if a victim sees her rapist convicted, that won't undo the rape. But putting an innocent man in prison for a rape he didn't commit is inexcusable under any circumstance".
Very much so. A rape victim, who sees her rapist get convicted, at least has the saisfaction of knowing he will suffer for the rest of his life while the falsely accused male, most often watches his false accuser walk free to falsely accuse another male of such a heinous crime. At this point I am biting my tongue to keep from saying; "if she falsely accuses a male of rape once, she can do it again, and again, and again and, again."
"Somehow, this nation has developed the screwball notion that the interests of rape victims and of men who might be falsely convicted of rape are equivalent when they are not. It's apples and oranges. I need to do a post on this one".
Dec 8, 2009 3:50:00 PM
I can hardly wait. Archivist, YOU ROCK!
"If anyone is prosecuted for filing a false report, then victims of real attacks will be less likely to report them." - David Angier
I wonder what this man would have to say if he learned of this case. He would probably have something inane to say that would be insulting to the real victim in this case, the man whose life, no matter what, has been destroyed. What employer wants to even hear a man say he was imprisoned on a lie? What employer would believe him? Then, there are the members of the public who will still shun and alienate him out of hysterical suspicion that " he must have done something" to be put through all of that. IMHO, this case along with all others , nullifies what this man claims. There is nothing to keep real rape victims from reporting being raped.
Anonymous said...
This site is a problem for the Rape hysteria Klan. Not unlike the lynchings of the black man in early American history, Rape hysteria is a super destructive and powerfull force, and gender feminists have used "rape hysteria" as the root of their empire.
They have then surrounded "Rape hysteria" with a protective cloud of misinformation for so long...that they see the very real danger that the truth will come out..and deflate their choke hold over men / boys/ children/ and society.
Dec 8, 2009 9:44:00 PM
This site is a thorn, no, a spear in the side of those who wish to push attention away from false rape accusations and the damage/destruction they cause, away from the attention of the public, who NEED TO KNOW that false rape accusations DO exist and, eist in larger number than the public is aware of.
eist should be exist.
Anonymous - "Slwerner, you look awful sexy when you're mad >>>>"
Hum??? Sounds like something Georgia Girl would post.
But, for the record, I checked with my wife - who is an excellent judge of such things, and has impeccable taste - and I can report that she indicates that it isn't just when I'm mad.
The whole, "I found religion-but-not-really-because-my-priest-made-me-do-it" bit in that article put me somewhere between rage and total confusion.
You are simply not a Christian if you're willing to let that injustice slide. You may be Christian-esque, in that you follow some of the principles while ignoring others. I have much respect for the priest forcing the FRA to go public and recant.
Funny that she has a lawyer even though she plead guilty: one that thinks she is "courageous" at that.
"Courageous" is not the right word. Not even the right concept.
In a society, it is every member's *OBLIGATION* to right wrongs as best they can. An obligation that she managed to successfully shirk for four years. That is 1,460 days in a row that she managed to wake up every morning and go, "Heh, I don't really care enough to get this guy out of prison."
Assuming she cared at all.
I'm sure that the thought of going to Hell for eternity had a little something to do with her confession.
Anon,
I think that is what angered me about the post above that called her brave. If her priest had just told her to do 40 Hail Mary's, and let it go at that, I doubt we would even know about this. Instead, he put his own vocation and calling at risk, to help an innocent man. THAT is a priest that knows what religion is about.
She was looking for absolution, not how to rectify what she had done. It took someone else holding her feet to the fire to get her to do what is right. That isn't brave, it's cowardly.
Throw all the stones you want. Bottom line is SHE reported her tranngression (NOT the priest). As Anon already asked, how many men come forward after getting away with rape. One?
Bottom line is, if her priest hadn't told her that if she didn't come forward, he would. She had NO plans to do so. Being forced to tell the truth isn't the act of a decent person. She's slime. And by giving her support....
Anonymous - "Throw all the stones you want. Bottom line is SHE reported her tranngression"
Let's not forget that back in August:
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Gonzalez has refused to testify on behalf of McCaffrey unless she receives immunity on perjury charges."
So, still think she just wanted to do the right thing? Yeah, Right!
The most recent Anonymous writes:
"Throw all the stones you want. Bottom line is SHE reported her tranngression (NOT the priest). As Anon already asked, how many men come forward after getting away with rape. One?"
Okay, I see. So her confession (after all these years, and only under threat of reportage) makes her a saint, because other people don't usually confess their crimes.
That makes it all better, and she's a wonderful person! Yeah, makes perfect sense.
Will you please stop judging her according to how sleazy other people are, and just acknowledge that she herself is sleazy? Seriously, that's like rewarding a child for admitting that she stole something by letting her keep it.
...Why are so many people determined to view the woman in any case as a hero?!
"Why are so many people determined to view the woman in any case as a hero?!"
Feminism.
Dang it, Slwerner, you're always provin' me wrong.
I would say this: a person who does a terrible thing can do a good thing to mitigate the harm she's caused. That's what happened here. But the harm from her initial terrible thing was so enormous, and it can't be undone, so I could never bring myself to call her a "hero."
Throw all the stones you want. Bottom line is SHE reported her tranngression (NOT the priest). As Anon already asked, how many men come forward after getting away with rape. One?
You're a moral coward from a long line of moral cowards.
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