Get the subtitle of the report. "Police considering charges." Considering? We now have people who break the law in this country and the police only 'consider' pressing charges?
Police considering charges
A woman who reported to police that she had been the victim of a sexual assault in her Southeast Waynesboro home on Monday is now admitting that she made the story up.
The woman, whose name has not been released by Waynesboro Police, could face charges for filing a false police report.
The admission came during an interview with police investigators this morning, Waynesboro Police Sgt. Kelly Walker said.
“There were some inconsistencies in her story and some things that she was putting forward that could not be corroborated in any way,” Walker told AugustaFreePress.com.
Police combed the immediate area around the woman’s home between the Waynesboro Country Club on Meadowbrook Avenue and Lyndhurst Road in the hours after the 4:30 p.m. Monday report to police. The report was quite specific, describing the assailant as a 6-foot tall white man with dark hair, dark eyes and wearing khakis and a white T-shirt. The report included the detail that the suspect had fled the scene of the alleged crime in a green 2002 Ford Explorer.
A story in Tuesday’s News Virginian reported that police stopped a vehicle matching that description and conducted interviews with the vehicle’s occupants. Walker told AugustaFreePress.com today of another part to the backstory to the incident.
“We had gotten some calls during the day about some vacuum-cleaner salesmen. Because of that happenstance, we began putting some of that together with this case,” Walker said.
“Four or five men” associated with the vacuum-cleaner sales team were brought in for questioning, Walker said.
None of the men brought in for questioning met the physical description of the suspect, “but we didn’t know that until we rounded them all up, obviously,” Walker said.
Tips called into police in the days following the alleged assault included questions from people claiming to know the accuser that raised issues for investigators concerning the veracity of her story, according to Walker.
“The questions started to build. It wasn’t something immediate. It just built over time,” Walker said.
Walker could not give a time frame on when a decision on possible false-report charges could be made.
“We look at the state of mind of the person making the report. The histories - medical, mental health, whatever. In the end we try to make a decision that serves justice and also accounts for the resources that the city poured into the accusation,” Walker said.
“The nature of the alleged crime, the location, all of that contributed to an atmosphere of fear. I can tell you that I received calls from several citizens about, What should we do, Should we go about our daily routines, Should we lock our doors? It did raise a sense of angst in the community. That has to be considered as well,” Walker said.
Link:
http://augustafreepress.com/2009/12/10/woman-admits-to-false-report-on-sexual-assault/
Second Story (Please note the comments interspersed)
STAUNTON — Investigations into two alleged rapes this week that reportedly occurred in Waynesboro and Staunton have been closed as unfounded, police departments in those cities said Thursday.
Some who comment on this blog equate the "unfounded" with the false category. This is an example of how that stat is skewed. This is a FALSE accusation, not just an unfounded accusation. We are reasonably certain it is false, just as we would be reasonably certain a rape occurred when a man is convicted in the face of clear evidence. She lied about the whole thing. But this is now classified merely as "unfounded." What percentage of those that are false end up classified this way? Likely, we will never know.
On Tuesday, a 36-year-old Waynesboro woman told police she was raped during a break-in at her home located between Lyndhurst Road and the Waynesboro Country Club. On Thursday morning, Sgt. Kelly Walker of the Waynesboro Police Department said the woman admitted she lied about the attack after police questioned her about inconsistencies in her story. Walker said a charge of making a false report is pending against the unidentified woman.
In Staunton, police received a report of an alleged rape Wednesday at a 23-year-old woman's residence on Greenville Avenue. On Thursday, Capt. Leslie Miller of the Staunton Police Department said the case also was closed as unfounded. No charges were filed against the woman who reported the rape.
A second false report, a second classified as "unfounded" instead of false, and again, we see the person filing the false report is allowed to walk away with absolutely no punishment.
Walker said false reports are a waste of police resources, and said bogus statements by alleged victims tend to put an unneeded fear in the public, especially in neighborhoods where crime is typically low such as the area where the alleged rape took place Tuesday.
"It's not a crime-prone neighborhood at all," Walker said.
False rape reports in general, Walker said, can be detrimental down the road when an actual rape has occurred, and he said victims may be reluctant to step forward in the future for fear of not being believed. Regardless, Walker said the Waynesboro Police Department will pursue a rape allegation with fervor.
Ok, I must admit, I'm getting so tired of hearing how an FRA will affect some hypothetical, possible, imaginary rape victim down the road. What about those who are falsely accused? Can we maybe focus on the actual victim of the crime that has been committed?
"It doesn't matter on our end," Walker said. "When we receive a rape report, we go at it full bore."
Miller said police never go into a rape investigation with preconceived notions and said they strive to remain objective. She said investigators are careful not me make rash decisions during such an investigation.
But wait a minute, I keep hearing that law enforcement doesn't take rape reports seriously, and that they tend to have their minds made up before they even start investigating. You mean the people who keep saying that aren't telling the truth? They wouldn't happen to be making an emotive issue out of it, you know, to keep the hysteria running, would they?
"If you have a real incident, it's not something you want to rush through. It's very sensitive and it can be very embarrassing," she said. "It's a serious crime."
And so is falsely accusing someone of rape, Sgt. Walker. And yet, in one of those above, the criminal was allowed to walk away without even being charged. So tell me exactly how it is that your department takes crime seriously? The citizens of your area should be asking some very uncomfortable questions of their police.
Link: http://www.newsleader.com/article/20091211/NEWS01/912110335
UPDATE:
She has been charged with filing a false report. And she is now named.
WAYNESBORO — The Waynesboro Police Department announced this morning that a woman has been charged with making a bogus rape report.
Wendy M. Earney, 36, of Waynesboro is charged with knowingly making a false police report.
Police said Earney reported Dec. 8 that she was raped during a break-in at her home located between Lyndhurst Road and the Waynesboro Country Club.
Last week, Waynesboro police Sgt. Kelly Walker said the rape was listed as unfounded after a number of inconsistencies in Earney’s story were uncovered.
Earney was arrested Wednesday on the misdemeanor charge. She is free on a personal recognizance bond.
Link:
http://www.newsleader.com/article/20091217/NEWS01/91217009/1002/Waynesboro+woman+charged+in+false+rape+report
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Hey wait, I hear all the time women and girls would NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, lie about rape???
Rape is taken more seriously than false accusations because of the physical horror a female victim experiences.
Dawn says
"Rape is taken more seriously than false accusations because of the physical horror a female victim experiences."
Scott says.. A man/ boy falsely accussed of rape may be beaten to death by the mob/ klan mentality that rape accusations foment.
A man / boy may be repeatedly raped in jail over a false rape accusation, but society has been "conditioned" to be callous towards them.
Enabling women and girls to lie about Being Raped is a perversion of our legal system.
I'm not talking about men being beaten to a pulp by mobs or klans. I'm talking about the physical horror of rape versus a false accusation.
Dawn says
I'm not talking about men being beaten to a pulp by mobs or klans. I'm talking about the physical horror of rape versus a false accusation.
Scott says..Im not talking about Rape, I'm Talking about False Rape acussations.
Faulty and inflammatory misinformation about the true percentages of False rape accusations (it's not 2%) leads society to believe that women and girls NEVER, EVER, EVER lie about being raped..(Which is not true)..
Men and boys get beaten to death and thrown into jail over these lies.
Dawn - "Rape is taken more seriously than false accusations because of the physical horror a female victim experiences."
More accurately, Rape is taken more seriously than false accusations because there exists a perception that physical horror a female victim experiences is both greater, and more important that the harms done to the victims of FRA's.
I believe that this perception is often entirely unwarranted. What ifs often believed to the great horror of violent rape has, in fact, been nothing more than detestable sex that a woman felt forced into.
She will be understandably angry that a man (typically a man she has agreed to date) has taken advantage of her physically. However, such instances are not comparable to a woman who is unexpectedly set upon by a complete stranger, threaten with physical harm (even death), often with a deadly weapon, subjected to intense brutality within the act of rape, and oft-as-not beaten as well.
As many here know all too well, the umbrella of rape includes, at the extreme, instances of women who convince themselves that the sex they willing consented to (even initiated, themselves) was NOT what they would have done (if sober, for instance); and thus, that they have been raped.
Many, if not most, women would argue that such a situation DOES constitute rape. (I would imagine that you feel the same way, Dawn, given your comment). Yet, the man will quite reasonably see the sexual act as a matter of her free-will.
And, while the male victims of FRA's are perceived to have suffered far less than a brutal rape (of the type only a percentage of rape victims actually suffer), what they do face can be no less harrowing. Even those who are not beaten or killed (as some have been), can still find it all but impossible to get on with any sort of a normal happy life.
Sadly, Dawn's comment is reflective of the large view of society that their suffering is less, and basically unimportant - and that only the (imagined) suffering of woman truly matters.
I'm sorry, Dawn, but you really need to reflect much more deeply on what you are saying.
Dawn,
I don't think you have any idea of just how horribly people accused of sexually related crimes are treated in jail/prison. They are considered the lowest of the low, and usually have to be kept in solitary, because the other prisoners WILL beat/rape them on a daily basis.
Slwerner,
Thank you for your response. The callous disregard for what those who have been falsely accused go through, such as Dawn displays, is EXACTLY why this site exists.
I don't know what happens in prison. I've never been there. Why are you trying to dispute things that I know to be true.
One thing that does frequently occur in prison, especially to male inmates convicted of sex crimes, is rape by force. I know someone who works in a men's prison here in Tennessee. He had to enter the prison's shower room and rescue a man, who turned out to be innocent later, who was being raped by other inmates.
After raping him, the inmates had planned on stabbing him to death with homemade weapons.
Dawn - "I don't know what happens in prison. I've never been there."
I rather suspect that what you mean is that, you don't care what goes on in prisons - at least not in men's prisons (I imagine you'd be livid to learn of female prisoners being treated badly).
"Why are you trying to dispute things that I know to be true."
What, exactly, am I disputing the you believe you know to be true?
Well dawn, maybe, just maybe, before you start making statements as fact, you should get to know the other side of the argument.
You don't know what happens in prison. So you have no idea of just how horrendous those accused of sexually based crimes are treated. In Prison, they are raped (repeatedly, not just the 1 time), they are beaten, and often are killed.
Then lets talk of those who don't end up in prison, but are still killed, beaten, and for the rest of thier lives, treated as rapists.
Is it possible, that in your 20 or so years, you may not have all the answers? I don't, and I've been around twice as long. But to minimize what a person falsely accused of rape goes through, is the height of arrogance, and is thoroughly disgusting.
Why don't you go and talk to Anthony Cole about the false accusation that sent him to prison? Wait... you can't. Why? Because he died there, before it was discovered that he was innocent. Or how about talking with Sumbo Owoiya? What? You can't? Because a 15 year old girl lied about being raped, and this 18 year old was killed for it.
Your attitude, is one of a supremacist, and a bigot.
This site exists, to expose the lie that "women don't lie about rape". It is a place that those who are falsely accused, and we have quite a few who stop by who have been (scott and AFOR), to know that they are not alone.
Dawn is a misandrist and a liar.
She is a puppet of academic feminism.
She is a non-supporter of this site.
She is a non-supporter of men who have been victimized by false rape accusations from women.
Her hate-filled paradigm must be stopped in order for innocent men falsely accused of rape can finally be free.
Falsified rape is violence against men.
RM
Dawn's the female equivalent of the KKK! Instead of her bigotry being racially based, it's sex based, i.e. towards men.
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