Comment: It appears that this woman tried to excuse staying overnight at someone's home by filing a false report. Any takers that it was someone who her mother doesn't care for?
FITCHBURG, Wis. -- Fitchburg police said that they have closed a sexual assault case, saying they believe it was a false report.
The woman thought to be the victim of an incident last weekend had said she was attacked by two strangers after her car broke down, police said.
She has since admitted giving a false report after returning home late to a family member who was babysitting her child, authorities said.
Police said that they don't believe there is any threat to the public.
Link: http://www.channel3000.com/news/21661843/detail.html
Second article on the same story:
Fitchburg police say they are considering charges against a 25-year-old Madison woman who made up a story about being sexually assaulted to avoid having to explain that she spent the night at a friend's home.
Police have not yet identified the woman, who told police Saturday that she was assaulted after getting into a man's vehicle in the 3300 block of Leopold Way on Friday afternoon.
The woman had told police that the man offered to drive her to a gas station after her own car broke down. While she was in the vehicle, a second man who had been hiding in the vehicle attacked her, she initially told police, and the men did not release her from the vehicle for several hours.
The entire incident was made up, police said. The woman reportedly was trying to cover up her whereabouts after leaving her son at her mother's Madison home Friday afternoon and failing to return until Saturday.
Lt. Todd Stetzer said the department spent more than 30 hours on the case and may seek restitution from the woman.
Link: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_f38acf0c-d4b9-11de-86ad-001cc4c03286.html
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Study after study has confirmed that 99% of all false rape accusations are down to at least one of the following three reasons.
1/ next day regret
2/ revenge
3/ attention seeking
AfOR
No threat to the public?
LOL! So men don't even qualify as 'the public' any more.
AFOR,
Great reasons to destroy someone's life, isn't it? How narcissistic have people become that those are reasons to falsely accuse someone of rape?
Snark,
Glad the police, in this case, just discounted half of the population, who this woman is a very REAL threat to.
Honestly, the part that made me laugh, was this:
Police have not yet identified the woman,
So, people get to anonymously file police reports that a crime has been comitted against them? Really?
Afor,
That isn't true, as a common motive is alibi, as in this case.
Also, do you any links to these studies?
That isn't true, as a common motive is alibi, as in this case.
That is item #1 on my list.
what do you need an alibi for, except doing something that you regret?
AfOR
Anon 1:43
Take a look on our sideboard of the main page, under the "False Rape Claims Primer", and click the link to the "False Rape Allegations, by Eugene Kanin" link. Read the Conclusions section of his study.
Snark said...
No threat to the public?
LOL! So men don't even qualify as 'the public' any more.
I live in Victoria, Australia.
Have a look at my state government's Health & Community web resource.
Notice anything missing?
Sad, isn't it gwallan? No Men's services. Of course, when it comes to governments, why would they worry about the men? They don't constitute the majority voting block, so we'll just ignore them. Never mind that they pay the MAJORITY of the taxes.
Funny, I thought that there couldn't be discrimination based on gender, by the government.
"what do you need an alibi for, except doing something that you regret?"
Anything she would want to cover up or wouldn't want other people to know. Whether she wished she hadn't done it or not is irrelevant. It could be something she would gladly do again along as she could get away with it. It doesn't have to involve sex.
I consider "regret" feeling guilt, remorse, dirty, used, etc. after consensual sex, or worrying about it's consequences such as disease or pregnancy. It doesn't have to be the next day either. While Kanin labeled this "alibi", imho, it differs from alibi where she is trying to place herself somewhere else such as this case in Fitchburg, Tawana Brawley, etc.
Regarding the Kanin study, I read it about ten years ago, and perhaps a couple times since. It is an important study that does illustrate at least three common motives (alibi, rejection, attention), but it does not include money (eg. Andrea McNulty), political hoax (eg. Sara Klein), or alibi for something other than sex.
Anonymous said...
Study after study has confirmed that 99% of all false rape accusations are down to at least one of the following three reasons.
1/ next day regret
2/ revenge
3/ attention seeking
AfOR
Dec 15, 2009 9:24:00 AM
4/ hatred
5/ to prove she can be a bitch
6/ destroy a man's life/cause harm to an innocent man
7/ fun
Any reason/excuse for falsely accusing an innocent man, and/or innocent men, of any violent crime, is a poor reason/excuse for doing so.
but it does not include money (eg. Andrea McNulty), political hoax (eg. Sara Klein), or alibi for something other than sex.
Keep in mind the location of that study. It was a city in the midwest, not a large, nor a small city, just a representative population, where the police were able to classify them as false, based on the thoroughness of thier investigations. So those may not have been within the reasons for the false claims looked at.
Not to fault Kanin's work, I'm also keeping in mind the time of the study. It started before the college "date rape" hysteria of the 80's, and ended before the VAWA.
Further, I'm keeping in mind the criteria the study used to define a claim as false, that she recanted.
Women with motives other than the ones the study illustrated might be less likely to recant. Someone willing to go through a lawsuit to get money, or planning perpetrate a political hoax, might be more willing and better prepared to stick to her story.
Another "motive" where the accuser is unlikely to recant is mental illness. One aspect of a common psychiatric definition of delusion is incorrigibility. Further, with a histrionic personality disorder there is the double whammy of someone who may not only believe she was raped, but also has a pathological need for attention.
So I disagree that study after study has confirmed that 99% of all false rape accusations are down to only three reasons.
Which brings me to an important point that is rarely made. While people often use induction -- reasoning based on statistics or citing numerous cases -- to demonstrate the prevalence of false accusations of rape, we can also arrive at the same conclusion deductively: There are two behaviors. One has almost no motive and extreme punishment. The other has numerous common motives and almost no punishment. Which would occur more frequently?
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