JACKSON COUNTY — A South Mississippi woman jailed Wednesday is accused of falsely reporting that she’d been the victim of an alleged sexual assault, Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd said.
Beverly Renee Weir, 42, of the 16200 block of Bordeaux Drive, Biloxi, was arrested after sheriff’s deputies started investigating Weir’s claims about being sexually assaulted. Investigators, Byrd said, later determined that Weir allegedly had made up the allegations.
More details about the investigation are expected to be released at a later time, and the case
will be presented to a Jackson County grand jury to decide whether to indict Weir on the charge, Byrd said.
The charge carries a prison sentence of up to a year and or a fine of up to $1,000.
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One fucking year?
Joab
She has a one in a million shot of even serving a DAY.
Just a year? Ridiculous. No wonder false rape accusers have no fear of the legal system.
Well, at least they published her name and address even. So that's good.
It is a perversion of our justice system over the last 25 years that has enabled the explosion of false rape acussations COMING FORWARD!!!
You guys almost ZERO of these women will even be CHARGED let alone serve any time in jail.
The girl that put a guy in prison for 4 years for a rape he did not commit got ONE year. And that is like the guniess record for false accusers....and she will probably not even serve that.
All the other false accusers get off with nothing here in the U.S.
And of course NOT ONE has ever had to register as a sex offender.
It is sickening to see a false rape accuser do less time than her victim.
"It is sickening to see a false rape accuser do less time than her victim."
True,at least she should sit X2 the time he had to sitted through until release.
Joab and the first two Anon's. Keep in mind that she could get up to a year and/or a fine up to 1K. So realistically, she could end up with a $5.00 fine and walk away.
I think it is past time that a false report of a crime should carry the same weight as the crime that is being charged. If the crime is a felony, the false report of such, should be a felony as well.
I can see more lenient punishment if no one is arrested due to the accusation, but as soon as someone is locked in a cell, there should be a mandatory minimum sentence. As well, at that point, kidnapping charges, and false imprisonment charges should be included, as they are regularly included with a rape/sexual assault charge.
One thing that is certain. People in this country need to start taking a bit more direct action (Calls, emails, letters, etc.) to local DA's, Police Chiefs, Judges etc., when a false accusation is determined. Start making those Law Enforcement individuals know, that when thier next election comes up, that there will be information disseminated on how they handled those cases, and that you will work to make sure they won't have a job when they dismiss false allegations as unimportant.
It's past time for good people to stand up and scream for an end to the unjust way that false allegations are routinely handled.
In the old days, false reporting statutes were rarely used to punish for major harm -- and here's why: Up until the 70s or 80s, for virtually every crime, the question of whether it happened didn't depend on one party's word. There was almost always other evidence, and the police could get to the bottom of it.
However, starting in the 70s, feminists lobbied to change rape laws, and one of their changes mandated that a rape claim could be charged based solely on the woman's complaint. The peculiar problem with rape is that often the only physical evidence of the rape is the same physical evidence as the most common human interaction of love.
So, the rape laws were changed without any thought that women might just abuse them and falsely cry rape (and remember, we were all told "women don't lie about rape"). As a result, the false reporting statutes were not altered, and they still exist just as they had in the old days, as monuments to a long-bygone era when false reports were rarely a big deal.
"However, starting in the 70s"
--1st. I don't think false rapes in the 70s were punished either.
--2nd. The "believe the woman always" mentality is as old as the early 1900s. In Britain, men were legal 2nd class citizens in relations to women. This was due to some feminism and some biological misandry.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Legal_Subjection_of_Men#The_Criminal_Law.
There were a lot more real rapes back then. As the rape rate has dropped, the rate of false reporting has probably increased in proportion.
In other words, if you have a barrel full of red apples with some green apples, then remove half of the red apples, your chances of picking a green apple out of the barrel double. Since false rape accusations are so rarely punished, it is likely that there are just as many false rape accusers as in the 70's, but fewer real rapes.
"Since false rape accusations are so rarely punished, it is likely that there are just as many false rape accusers as in the 70's, but fewer real rapes."
I love your comment, but my take on this is a bit different. I suspect that we are seeing far more false rape charges as a real number, not just a percentage. Since the mid-70s or so, there have been innumerable changes in rape law that expanded the definition of rape and made it easier to report. Among other things, the requirements of force, resistance, and corroboration were eliminated, and spousal rape was invented. All sorts of conduct that previously could not have resulted in arrest could now be called "rape." In addition, rape became far less of an ordeal to charge -- with the rape shield laws, anonymity, and the PR blitz to make women understand that rape victimizes them and that every rape claim should be believed. The result of all of it made rape much, much easier to allege. In effect, what we did was make it very easy to commit a cry (false reporting) and not be punished for it. It seems entirely natural to me that we would see a big increase in false rape claims.
Again, the studies are few and far between. I wonder if anyone who isn't a radical feminist could even get funding to do a serious study at this time. My guess is no.
Diogenes, see my previous comment right above this. The big change in the 70s and 80s was to eliminate corroboration. It's not that false rape claims were punished in the 70s, it's that there were far fewer of them. When rape claims had to be corroborated as a condition to bringing a rape charge, this weeded out a tremendous number of false claims. Also, there had to be force and resistance. There were no SANE nurses to lie that a tear was indicative of a rape. All that changed with the avalanche of rape law changes. Now, for the first time, a college co-ed's claim that a college boy "raped" her had to be investigated -- even though there was zero physical evidence. The rape arrests in the 70s were more likely to have been rapes.
I saw this cop show once, where a guy did time for a murder he didn't commit on a woman who then changed her identity and went into hiding. When he got out, he killed her, revealed her identity and the cops couldn't press charges, since HE ALREADY DID TIME FOR KILLING HER.
No idea why I thought of that show.
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