Our View: False reports hurt real victims
On Feb. 8, Marissa Ann Lovingood reportedly contacted the Murphy Police Department and said she was kidnapped and raped between 11:30 p.m. and midnight Feb. 7, Murphy Police Chief Justin Jacobs said.
Since the report was made, Lovingood allegedly told Murphy police officers she made up the story to keep her husband from learning about an affair she was having with a man from Graham County and explain why she was late getting home. She has been charged with making a false report to a law enforcement agency.
We are shocked and saddened that a woman would make up a rape to cover up an extramarital affair, especially since the abduction of Kristi Cornwell is still being investigated by local authorities.
These kind of knowingly false rape charges make it that much more difficult for real victims of sexual assault to be taken seriously and get the help they need and deserve.
Lovingood also reportedly told officers two teenage boys “raped” her. We can only imagine the lives that could have been ruined had her family sought “mountain” justice. Would two innocent teens walking down the street have paid the ultimate price for her false charges? Considering what happened after a shooting last year in Boiling Springs, you can’t be sure.
These kind of false allegations waste taxpayer money and police resources. It also sends an unnecessary fear through a community and damages the credibility of real rape victims.
We cannot allow making these kind of claims to go unpunished. Anyone who makes a false rape claim should face just as strict a penalty as other sex offenders.
Link: http://cherokeescout.com/articles/2010/03/02/opinions/doc4b8d6f698adf8394780723.txt
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
18 comments:
1 down, 2 to go.
That means there is one FRA exposed and there are 2 more in the area to be exposed as false.
You just don't get these kind of crimes in this area of the country often.
Where I'm at I would not doubt that 8 of ten "rapes" are false.
Even the ones seemingly credible enough to put in the newspapers are almost all proven false in a matter of time.
I remember one stretch of time where in about a month a lady got raped by her dentist and one got abducted and raped and another was held down and sexually assaulted.
They were ALL lies. A few weeks after each they got the little article in the back of the paper saying none of it was true.
why so shocked?
Isn't it routine already?
This will be one to watch...
it has all the hallmarks of an FRA
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/cardiffonline/cardiff-news/2010/03/11/court-told-of-man-s-anger-at-rape-claim-91466-26006903/
"This will be one to watch...
it has all the hallmarks of an FRA
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/cardiffonline/cardiff-news/2010/03/11/court-told-of-man-s-anger-at-rape-claim-91466-26006903/ "
Let's see:
* 20-year old accuser with a baby, whom the accuser has said has also "touched" her baby
* "He said his daughter even feared her step-grandfather was the father of her daughter, though DNA later showed he was not a match."
... but wait for it....
* "When interviewed by police, the defendant said the family was falling out over an affair and money problems."
As AfOR and I have maintained in prior posts: follow the money!
Cui bono?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono
http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2010/03/roethlisberger-case.html
Thank God she is being charged. Her court date (initial) is 5/12 but the charge unfortunately is a misdemeanor. The charge is "False report to police station"
http://www1.aoc.state.nc.us/www/calendars.Offense.do?submit=submit&case=1902010050237&court=CR&defendant=LOVINGOOD,MARISSA,ANN&courtDate=05/12/2010&county=CHEROKEE&session=AM&courtRoom=0001
At least it will be on her record forever!!!!
CBGirl
By enabling and fostering false rape accusations we are in effect, minimizing rape accusations.
The law enforcement refused to charge my false rape accuser, and i was the second guy she falsely accused of raping her in that same year.
When the law enforcement community gets so perverted it, no longer protects the innocent, the innocent people no longer protect the law enforcement.
scott
"We are shocked and saddened that a woman would make up a rape to cover up an extramarital affair"
Well, I'm shocked that they can still be shocked, frankly.
Anymore, it's a fairly common occurrence. That's why, when we see these FRA's uncovered, but no motive reported, my first thought is that it was likely yet another lie to cover for cheating by the women.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that anytime a women who is living with a partner is out late (without the partner) and claims to have been abducted and raped by an unknown assailant (a relatively rare crime), her activities should automatically become suspect, and should be investigated.
We seen so many accounts where we know the FRA was to cover for cheating that I starting to think that more women lie about being abducted and raped to hide their infidelity that there are actual abductions and rapes of women [it's just a guess - pure conjecture, back by ZERO research - so, please don't quote me on that or start spreading it around that this is what men on this forum believe. I just throw it out there to provoke thought].
"We seen so many accounts where we know the FRA was to cover for cheating that I starting to think that more women lie about being abducted and raped to hide their infidelity that there are actual abductions and rapes of women [it's just a guess - pure conjecture, back by ZERO research - so, please don't quote me on that or start spreading it around that this is what men on this forum believe. I just throw it out there to provoke thought]."
The need for an alibi has been cited in research as one of the motives for false accusations. We'll never know whether false allegations trump the number of valid and extant rapes, but the numbers of news stories we see here daily that turn out to be false allegations do provoke a lot of thought and make me feel, as a falsely accused, very sad (but a lot less alone).
Anon @ 11 am said
"We'll never know whether false allegations trump the number of valid and extant rapes,"
I actually think we do know.
We just studiously pretend that we do not.
Here in the UK, based upon ALL alleged rapes reported to the Police in one year, 80% never made it to the Crown Prosecution Service, having failed the "threshold tests".
Approximately one third of those reported to the CPS are dropped by the CPS, the remainder goes to Court, with a 55% conviction rate.
What we are seeing, in other words, is IRREFUTABLE, FACTUAL, STATISTICAL, OFFICIAL, evidence of massive over-reporting, or, false reporting.
Yet, the feminazis claim that there is in fact massive under-reporting, not only is there precisely ZERO, irrefutable, factual, statistical or official evidence to support this, EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF EVIDENCE that there is argues against it.
What the feminazis call "evidence" is more correctly known as "hearsay".
An anecdote is neither evidentiary nor factual, by definition, it is NEITHER.
If we take the aforesaid numbers for the UK, in approximate terms we are talking about 80% of 60,000 reported alleged rapes being false.
That is 48,000 FRA's nationally in one year.
I doubt there are 100 actual rapes that go unreported in one year, so we are looking at a ratio of false allegations to non reported crimes of at least 500:1
Like slwerner says, the only shock is that anyone is shocked.
Afor
Just seeing the "rape" stories that make the news there is a LOT that are false.
It will get even worse here in the U.S. since there is no punishment for it.
"I doubt there are 100 actual rapes that go unreported in one year, so we are looking at a ratio of false allegations to non reported crimes of at least 500:1"
I wouldn't say that the number of unreported rapes is that small, or the ratio is anywhere near that high, unless you are counting false "reports" not made to the police.
Although I'm not finished, I have been researching recidivism rates, and looking at it from a historical perspective, at first glance, it leads me to believe that in the U.S., we currently have a high rate of false rape convictions.
"I wouldn't say that the number of unreported rapes is that small, or the ratio is anywhere near that high, unless you are counting false "reports" not made to the police."
There is actually a great deal to be said of the dual issue of unreported real rapes vs. unreported false rapes (those false claims made to friends and family, but never to police).
Of course, we all heard (or, should I say, been bombarded) with this supposedly researched statistic that approximately 60% of rapes go unreported. So, how was that number arrived at?
Well, I can find nowhere that the actual accounting procedure is documented, but it seems to be some compilation from three sources: Rape hotlines, rape crisis centers, and emergency rooms.
I don’t know if laws are consistent state-to-state about which of these fall under “must report” guidelines. I do know that in Colorado, ER’s must report each and every instance in which they treat someone (it’s supposed to apply to both sexes) who has injuries consistent with sexual trauma.
Laying aside those instance which may have come about as a result of rough of dangerous consensual sex, there are a number of women who are treated, who appear to have been raped (and the police must be called) who subsequently decline to cooperate or file a complaint. These are the ones who represent the most likely true unreported rapes.
Yet, there numbers fall well short of 60% of all such ER reports.
The next way the 60% figure is justified is via reports to rape crisis centers (which may or may not need to report to police). They have a significant number of woman who come in seeking treatment (including financial support) for alleged rapes, but who do NOT want to involve the police. Some number of these are certainly legitimate rape victims, some of whom likely did not go to an ER.
However, some of them are likely to be lying in order to gain resources, or just attention and sympathy. The number provided from these centers may or may not be valid reflections of the percentage of women who are raped, but do not want to report it to police. Yet, they are also potentially dubious and misleading. I have no idea if some form of weighting is applied to the numbers derived from these centers.
The last source cited in assessing the number of rapes said to go unreported comes from rape hotlines. I have no idea what weight these are given, as it seems to me that they have no way of assessing which hotline callers DO eventually go to police, nor even which calls may be one individual calling multiple times in regard to one event (presumably, since they don’t take names or numbers, they count each call they receive as if it were a separate incident).
Obviously, we have some readers who are more familiar with the rape victim advocacy side. I’d like to learn more about how the research was actually done, if any of them know, and would care to share.
@ slwerner
all three sources that you cite have one thing in common.
they are all sources of anecdotes, the legally correct term for which is "hearsay"
The FACT that 80% of all alleged rapes actually reported to the Uk Police in one year is not hearsay, or an anecdote, but a fact.
"Is is admissible in Court?" is the acid test.
Well yer honour, we reckon the accused rapist has been responsible for 87 different women calling rape hotlines in the past year alone.
OBJECTION
Nothing in the evidence bundle or disclosure to support this.
"Well, I can find nowhere that the actual accounting procedure is documented, but it seems to be some compilation from three sources: Rape hotlines, rape crisis centers, and emergency rooms."
From what I've read, the most common method is to take the number of reported rapes from the UCR and divide it by the number of rapes from victimization surveys. Putting aside that surveys are generally crap, and that important differences between prevalence and incidence are often ignored, there are three other glaring problems. First, is that these victimization surveys use their own expanded definition of rape. Secondly, they tend to combine "rape" and "attempted rape" together as "victims of rape". So thirdly, you have the compounded effect of an expanded definition of attempted rape. For example, if a woman arbitrarily decides after the fact that she was unable to make a decision due to alcohol or drugs she knowingly decided to consume (not necessarily passed out or incapacitated as the legal definition, or even drunk), and someone tries to have sex with her (as defined by the survey), and she says no, and the other person stops, then she is counted as a victim of attempted rape because it would have been rape if she said yes. "Hello 911? I was drinking and some guy hit on me!" The idea that women would or should report such incidents is absurd.
Just to give you an idea of the sort of thinking behind these surveys, this is from
Conceptualizing the "Wantedness” of Women’s Consensual and Nonconsensual Sexual Experiences: Implications for How Women Label Their Experiences With Rape, Zoë D. Peterson, Charlene L. Muehlenhard, JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH 2007, Vol. 44, No. 1, 72–88.
-----
Sex is often conceptualized either as wanted and consensual or as unwanted and nonconsensual, reflecting an implicit model of wanting that is unidimensional and dichotomous and that conflates wanting and consenting. This study has three objectives: developing a multidimensional model for conceptualizing the wantedness of a sexual act, using this model to compare women’s experiences with rape and consensual sex, and assessing whether wantedness is related to rape acknowledgment. Participants were college women who described their experiences with rape (n = 77) or consensual sexual intercourse (n=87). Results supported a multidimensional model of sexual wanting and a wanting–consenting distinction. Compared with acknowledged rape victims, unacknowledged rape victims reported wanting the sexual intercourse more despite not having consented.
Many people, including the public and researchers, treat sex as either wanted or unwanted, withwanted sex being consensual and unwanted sex being nonconsensual. Real life, however, is often more complicated. For example, one woman, recalling her thoughts immediately before experiencing nonconsensual sex, wrote,
'I was thinking, “I really shouldn’t be doing this,” but on the other hand, almost like the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other, I was saying, “he is so cute and I really like him and he will probably think I was just leading him on if I don’t do it.”'(Peterson & Muehlenhard, 2000)
She expressed reasons for wanting to have sex and reasons for not wanting to have sex. Furthermore, although she expressed reasons for wanting to have sex, her questionnaire responses made it clear that she had not consented.
Can sex be wanted and unwanted? Can sex be wanted but nonconsensual? These questions have important scientific, clinical, legal, and interpersonal implications. In this article, we describe what we view as the prevailing dominant model used to conceptualize sexual wanting, and we discuss problems with this model. We then present a new model of sexual wanting and use it to explore women’s feelings about consensual sex and rape.
Post a Comment