I'm going to let this one speak for itself.
THE mother of a young man who was the victim of a bogus rape claim has told of her “living hell” while her innocent son was locked up for a year.
Tearful Lindsay Duncan from Gartness in Airdrie suffered the torment of seeing her boy’s life being threatened when he was behind bars.
For 12 long months, as 22-year-old Jason was remanded in Addiewell and Barlinnie jails, his mother went through a nightmare. It was as if she had been in prison with him.
Lindsay knew he had committed no crime and was bolstered by the overwhelming support of friends and work colleagues.
But the long wait for his innocence to be proved in a court of law was almost unbearable, especially as she knew what Jason was going through behind bars.
“It was a living nightmare to start with and it just got worse and worse,” she told the Advertiser. “He was taken to Addiewell and had boiling water thrown over him and razor blades thrown at him. They tried to set him on fire.
“They moved him to Barlinnie and I was horrified. It’s a nightmare to see your son in a place like that.
“He was put in a sex offenders unit and in some ways he was safer there, but he was in with some terrible people.”
Jason was falsely accused – along with pal Chris Hoey – of raping a woman at knifepoint in March 2009.
At a High Court trial in Falkirk last month a jury took just one hour to find the pair not guilty.
Lindsay, who was in court that day, felt a mixture of relief and joy when she heard the verdict and ran to cuddle her son and lead him from court just seconds after the judge told him he was free to go.
It was a long journey from the day the nightmare began to unfold for both Jason and Chris, whose story we told last month.
Lindsay recalled the moments it all started, when police came to her home and arrested Jason.
“It was horrendous. It was quarter past three and the police came to the door and grabbed him and put him up against the wall. There was about five of them. They took him away and he had no shoes on. They were completely rude to me and wouldn’t answer any questions and then eventually said they were going to charge him with rape.
“It was unbelievable. I thought ‘they’ve got the wrong person’. It was surreal.”
With Jason locked up and charged with such a serious offence, Lindsay is sure some people thought the worst.
But the support of family, friends and colleagues in the HR department of call centre firm beCogent helped her get through it.
“My mum phoned everybody she knew to tell them what was going on and they were all quite supportive. I had nothing but absolute support, especially from my colleagues at work. I am quite sure some people jumped to conclusions, but people who know Jason knew he couldn’t have done that.”
Lindsay is still furious at the woman who put her son through such an ordeal. She would now like to do something to help change the law to try to stop false allegations of rape getting to court.
“There is still a great deal of anger,” Lindsay admitted. “I think she is the lowest of the low and she is doing genuine rape victims no favours whatsoever.
“It is hard enough for women who have genuinely been raped to have the confidence to come forward.
“I want to do something that will help make sure other mothers don’t have to go through what I have gone through.
“I am not sure what I can do, but I would back calls for the woman to be named if the man is found not guilty. That would be a start.”
Link: http://www.acadvertiser.co.uk/lanarkshire-news/local-news/monklands-news/2010/04/21/airdrie-mum-s-living-hell-at-false-rape-allegations-65864-26279442/
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“I am not sure what I can do, but I would back calls for the woman to be named if the man is found not guilty. That would be a start.”
Indeed it would. Sex offender's register for life would be the next step. Same sentence as the falsely accused would have received after that. And finally, public awareness that women lie about rape a lot, and we're all set.
Read the story, and you'll understand the sub-title of our blog.
Chef S: I leave it up to you: action alert for the artist in the previous story? Your call.
"Chef S: I leave it up to you: action alert for the artist in the previous story? Your call."
All right ... here we go.
The horrors that men, including presumptively innocent men, face in prison are inhumane. I wish we could pull back the curtain and expose it even more. We got a taste of it from one of the young men in the Hofstra case. But it's a big part of the false rape story that isn't being told. I think men are ashamed to admit what happens to them in prison.
The ARTIST in the previous post should read this one.
Archivist, check your inbox.
[“It is hard enough for women who have genuinely been raped to have the confidence to come forward.
“I want to do something that will help make sure other mothers don’t have to go through what I have gone through.]
--see what I mean?
--his mom still thinks that it's "hard enough" for women who have "genuinely" been raped to come forward. No evidence of this exists, and sympathy is redirected from the man to these supposed "genuine" victims that we don't know of yet
--she wants to make sure "other mothers" don't "go through what" SHE has gone through. Somehow, the primary victim being the man, gets deflected and now SHE is also a victim!!! And that she wants to make sure OTHER MOTHERS don't go through what SHE has gone through, even though it is HIM who has gone through it.
--"almost like being in jail with him" <--give me a break
True enough, Anon. What is it with women and having a victim fetish?
Folks downplay the degree of perversion between alot of law enforcement communities, and their gender feminist bosses.
This degree of "ALLIANCE", has in fact led to measures, and police protocl perversions that in effect "manufacture faulty and inflamatory statistics"
May i remind those who have put together this perversion, that it is unconstitutional to use state and federal dollars to discriminate using faulty and inflamatory missinformation.
Chef Snark said...
True enough, Anon. What is it with women and having a victim fetish?
Apr 23, 2010 12:44:00 PM
Decades of "women's Studies".
I was watching that old film, The Godfather. Whenever we're considering what to do in a particular situation we should ask ourselves, "What Would The Godfather Do?"
What would the Godfather do if one of his sons was roughly dragged out of his house, imprisoned for a year, abused and maybe raped, and subjected to a corrupt cop and judicial system?
What do you think he would do?
@ Archivist
"The horrors that men, including presumptively innocent men, face in prison are inhumane. I wish we could pull back the curtain and expose it even more. We got a taste of it from one of the young men in the Hofstra case. But it's a big part of the false rape story that isn't being told. I think men are ashamed to admit what happens to them in prison."
Archivist:
have you thought about contacting any of the Duke Lacrosse Players to see if they would be willing to write a piece for FRS? That definitely would attract more attention here.
What would the Godfather do if one of his sons was roughly dragged out of his house, imprisoned for a year, abused and maybe raped, and subjected to a corrupt cop and judicial system?
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In that case, Mike Nifong would have woken up with a horse's head under his security blanket. But we can't resort to violence, the way Vito Corleone would.
The Godfather is a great movie, though.
Don't you understand that the reason the Godfather was what he was, was mostly due to the fact that where he came from there was no real justice. The people had suffered for centuries from either foreign invaders or medieval type Dons who oppressed them.
Not much different from what men suffer under corrupt cops and courts and oppressive matriarchs and feminists.
Men can actually break their hold if they chose since they outnumber the State's henchmen by 1000-1.
When prosecutors, cops and judges go around fearing the wrath of men rather than men fearing the State their hold will be broken.
And I'd stop this childish nonsense about violence never working because you are 100% wrong. It's the only thing that works even if it's only the fear of retaliation.
In fact, nobody will even nogotiate with a weak person (or country) It is only the powerful who have any say in their destiny.
That's crazy talk, of the sort that can land you in prison. You need to think long and hard about what you're saying.
And you're totally wrong -- violence is the path to marginalization and failure, not to power. Non-violence is a prerequisite for holding any kind of moral authority in this day and age. The worst thing you could possibly do to the men's rights movement would be to commit a violent act in the name of men's rights.
A violent man is a feminist's pawn.
My last post didn't get through, so I'll post the short version: what you have just said is completely wrong: violence is not a path to power, but to self-destruction and failure.
The worst thing any MRA could do would be to commit a violent act in the name of men's rights. We must reject violence.
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