Woman held for lying about rape
An 18-year-old Hillcrest woman who claimed she had been raped by her father has been arrested and charged with perjury after police found she had fabricated the story.
Police spokesman Captain Thulani Zwane said the young woman had opened a case of rape at the Hillcrest police station on Monday, claiming that her 50-year-old father had been raping her since 2007.
After an extensive investigation, police found loopholes in the woman's story and the story began to unravel.
On Tuesday, the woman admitted that she had fabricated the whole story, saying she lied.
"She said her father was strict and he wouldn't allow her to do anything," said Zwane.
She was arrested and charged with perjury. She appeared in the Pinetown Magistrate's Court on Wednesday and her case was postponed to March 5. She was remanded in custody.
Zwane issued a strong warning to people who lied to police and opened false claims, saying they would face the full might of the law.
"People who make false claims waste police time and resources.
"Once they have been arrested they will face the consequences of their action," he warned.
Link: http://www.thestar.co.za/?fSectionId=493&fArticleId=vn20100204125048477C752177
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Notice they do not name her.
"People who make false claims waste police time and resources"
I see that same statement again and again. They rarely mention how it could also ruin an innocent man's life. "Time and resources" is more important to them. Even when the accusation turns out to be false you know some people are still going to be suspicious. We need a paradigm shift.
Archivist! We have another news story you need to place comments under:
http://www.witn.com/crime/headlines/86052612.html
Penn State:
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2010/03/03/police_rape_didnt_occur.aspx
Perhaps we should introduce ourselves through a comment here, too.
Archivist:
here's another one I wish you'd post a comment on....
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2010/03/cole-pardon-recommended-how-many-more.html
The governor of the US state of Texas, Rick Perry, has posthumously pardoned a man who had died in jail after being wrongly convicted of rape.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8544890.stm
It is the first posthumous pardon in Texas, and it's about time!
Prosecutorial misconduct: an increasing problem or overblown hysteria?
http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ee98474b-0541-45a3-8443-5fa29c2a06c7
"....Some argue that such intentional prosecutorial misconduct is the exception and not the rule. While this may be true, recent studies show that prosecutorial misconduct is a systemic reality, at least at the state and local levels of the criminal justice system. In 2003, a study conducted by the Center for Public Integrity on the conduct of local prosecutors found that, beginning in 1970, prosecutorial misconduct was cited as a factor for dismissed charges, reversed convictions, or reduced sentences in at least 2,012 cases.5 In 513 additional cases, appellate judges offered opinions—either dissents or concurrences—in which they found the prosecutorial misconduct serious enough to merit additional discussion. In thousands more, judges labeled prosecutorial behavior inappropriate but permitted the trial to continue or upheld convictions as “harmless error.”
And those numbers do not even begin to scratch the surface. They do not account for prosecutorial misconduct in cases not subject to appellate review, such as the vast majority of cases referred by police, which end in guilty pleas and never reach a jury, or where trial judges dismiss cases or declare mistrials. Nor do they account for any number of cases in which prosecutors may have committed undiscovered “Brady violations” by failing to turn over possibly exculpatory information to the defense.
Despite the undeniable prevalence of prosecutorial misconduct, states have consistently failed to seriously investigate and sanction prosecutors for even the most blatant of ethical violations. North Carolina’s disbarment of Nifong for his mishandling of the Duke lacrosse case is the rare exception. Ignoring the problem only serves to jeopardize the integrity of the criminal justice system. Steps must be taken to increase transparency and improve accountability."
Hey wait a minute, I hear on campus that women and girls NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER lie about rape...EVER??
If there is systemic problems with proprietorial misconduct in the rea of false rape accusations..the only thing that will cure the problem is a systemic solution...LIKE AN INNOCENCE COUNCIL of some sort to track rape cases.
"proprietorial" was a freudian slip..it should have been "prosecutorial"
A former model and swimming champion who set fire to her boyfriend’s van has walked free from court.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/815660-jilted-ex-bikini-model-georgina-phair-fire-bombed-van
--BB
Something I want to share with my fellow men.
http://www.rip-factor.com/formen/index.html
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Sexual Assaults on Female Soldiers: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
"The Pentagon's latest figures show that nearly 3,000 women were sexually assaulted in fiscal year 2008, up 9% from the year before; among women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, the number rose 25%. When you look at the entire universe of female veterans, close to a third say they were victims of rape or assault while they were serving — twice the rate in the civilian population. (See the top 10 crime stories of 2009.)
The problem is even worse than that. The Pentagon estimates that 80% to 90% of sexual assaults go unreported, and it's no wonder."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1968110,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
Although I find it hard to believe that fighting a war could be as dangerous as going to college.
The real 'Sex on a Saturday Night'
By Iulia Neagu
"Did she have the right to accuse the boy of rape? Before you say yes, think about this for a minute: Should the fact that she willingly got herself into an advanced state of inebriation prevent her from complaining about anything that happened to her while she was in that state?
She knew what would happen if she started drinking. We all know that the more people drink, the less likely they are to make wise decisions. It is common sense.
Therefore, the girl willingly got herself into a state in which she could not act rationally. This, in my opinion, is equivalent to agreeing to anything that might happen to her while in this state. In the case of our girl, this happened to be sex with a stranger.
This brings up another question: Why is the guy always to blame? Since the beginning of time, society has taught us that whenever a situation like this arises, the fault belongs almost entirely to the male participant."
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/02/22/25251/
Go Tigers?
http://jezebel.com/5478360/she-knew-what-would-happen-if-she-started-drinking-blaming-the-victim-princeton-edition
The new gender / Raunch culture on campus has liberated girls to gang bang multiple guys at once, then if their friends find out what a pig she was with those 5 guys...she can always say she was raped.
Gender Raunch is turning college girls into pigs, and pole dancing is a credited course in many raunchy universities..which is fine. But it is also a perversion to let them falsely accuse the guys that were participating.
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