Angry with your boyfriend? Check. Want to hurt him? Check. Falsely cry rape? Check. Wait.... what? Because you are angry with someone you care for, how does saying that someone else raped you seem like a good idea? While the article doesn't state it, I have to wonder if the boyfriend will now want to stick around. On the plus side, she is named. On the minus side, she get's probation.
Jacqueline McCammond gets probation for false rape claim.
A DERVOCK woman who made a false allegation that she was raped by a man unknown to her so she could "hurt" her then boyfriend has been put on Probation for a year for wasting police time.
The Magistrates Court in Coleraine was told on Friday that 18-year-old Jacqueline McCammond, of McArthur Avenue, went to Coleraine Police Station accompanied by her boyfriend last year to make the allegation in which she said she was raped in a car in the Ballybogey area by another male.Jacqueline McCammond gets probation for false rape claim.
A DERVOCK woman who made a false allegation that she was raped by a man unknown to her so she could "hurt" her then boyfriend has been put on Probation for a year for wasting police time.
Police immediately launched an enquiry and as well as carrying out door-to-door enquiries and interviews with McCammond, they trawled through CCTV images and also made enquiries about the Renault Laguna car she alleged the rape occurred in.
Eventually though - several weeks later - McCammond admitted to police that she made the whole thing up.
In court on Friday, McCammond admitted a charge that between August 8, 2009 and September 5, 2009, she caused 'wasteful employment of police time by making a false report that tended to show that an offence had been committed'.
A prosecution lawyer that on August 11 last year the defendant attended Coleraine Police Station with her boyfriend and she said she had been raped the previous Sunday by a male unknown to her and that the offence happened in a car in the Ballybogey area.
Police had difficulty getting in touch with her by phone and on August 16 she failed to appear at Coleraine Police Station as arranged and when contacted by officers said she had no transport.
Police gave her a lift to the station and interviewed her as a "significant" witness.
The prosecution lawyer said police did a CCTV trawl and made house-to-house enquiries and also "extensive enquiries" about the ownership of the Renault Laguna.
McCammond later made a statement which she signed but later admitted to police it was all a lie.
She told officers she had "not meant things to go as far as they did and admitted she had made her allegations up", said the prosecutor.
A defence lawyer said his client "appreciates the absolute stupidity of her actions".
At the time of the offence he said McCammond's boyfriend had "disappeared without any warning or notice" and left for five days taking with him money for heating and food before coming back.
The lawyer said his client was "extremely upset" at her boyfriend's actions and she said she informed him "to hurt him" that she had been subjected to a rape.
The defence lawyer claimed McCammond's boyfriend "forced her almost" to make a report to police and the "pressure was piled on her" and "events where snowballing out of control" before she admitted it was made up.
He said McCammond is now seven months pregnant and her boyfriend has "abandoned her for good".
District Judge Richard Wilson told McCammond: "Whatever disagreement you had with your then boyfriend when he disappeared off the scene that does not justify you wasting police time and spinning yarns that are totally and utterly untrue."
McCammond, who had a previously clear record, was put on Probation for a year.
After the case, the Times asked the PSNI if they could give any information on how much it cost police to investigate the claims.
But a PSNI spokesperson only said: "This has now been dealt with by the courts. We have no further comment to make."
Link:
http://www.ballymoneytimes.co.uk/news/False-allegation-of-rape-Court.6159210.jp
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This is off topic but I thought it was big news.
You may want to hold your ears all you oprah fans out there!
Is oprah a false rape accuser??
It looks like her own family thinks so.
This is one of many many articles saying this.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/pulling_back_the_curtain_on_oprah_o8pmz6I4T3lZ8san4GHvlN
http://www.examiner.com/x-21058-Cleveland-Celebrity-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m4d13-Kitty-Kelley-Oprah-Biography-Oprah-lied-about-sex-abuse-and-childhood-doesnt-love-her-mother
I mean oprah is like the queen of rape...every other show is about sex offenders.
This is so big that it's on either entertainment tonight or inside edition....that is how I first heard about it.
Oldie but goodie.
If you already did this one just delete this.
This one fooled both oprah and 20/20!!
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2006/10/childraping_att.html
Only a year's probation? That's spitting in the face of innocent men.
How disgusting.
How about a class-action suit against Oprah for fomenting hysteria and moral panic?
Every time I see an entry where the false accuser is being charged, before I read where it occurred, I assume that it is the the U.K. and not the U.S.
"The defence lawyer claimed McCammond's boyfriend "forced her almost" to make a report to police and the "pressure was piled on her" and "events where snowballing out of control" before she admitted it was made up."
Of course, of course - it's all the boyfriends fault. Just like Danmell Ndonye’s boyfriend forced her to go to police since he didn’t believe she was raped, and suspected that she’d just cheated on him. I suppose if Ndonye had been charged, she could have tried the “boyfriend made me do it” defense herself.
”He said McCammond is now seven months pregnant and her boyfriend has "abandoned her for good".”
The linked article was published on 17 March 2010 – right at seven months from the time of the alleged rape. Hum??? The article doesn’t spell it out, but I’d guess that, just like Ndonye’s, her lie started out as cover for her infidelity; and when the boyfriend found out she was pregnant, and did the month counting himself, he realized the child was likely NOT his. Would explain the “abandoned” remark, since, as anyone knows, his leaving would not make him exempt from responsibility for a child that HE had fathered.
Anonymous - "Every time I see an entry where the false accuser is being charged, before I read where it occurred, I assume that it is the the U.K. and not the U.S."
An unfortunately "safe" assumption.
I'd suggest that the laws need to be changed in the US so as to allow for greater penalties (such as afforded via "Perverting The Course Of Justice" in the UK).
In too many locals in the US, the top charge for an FRA amounts to a misdemeanor, with penalties consistent with those for public drunkenness.
Given the PC/feminist fall-out they might expect from charging women, the fact that there isn't much to be gained (in terms of punishment) might well be what dissuades some from pursuing false accusers, figuring it as a further waste of time and expense.
"[Oprah's grandmother] kept a spotless house," Esters said. "It was a wooden, six-room house with a large living room that had a fireplace and rocking chairs ... I've talked to her about this over the years. I've confronted her and asked, 'Why do you tell such lies?' Oprah told me, 'That's what people want to hear. The truth is boring, aunt Katharine. People don't want to be bored. They want stories with drama.' That story [of sexual abuse] helped launch Oprah and make her what she is today ... I don't hold with telling lies, but in this case, I can forgive Oprah for what she has done for other people."
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Wow! Please tell me that this isn't true! Oprah, a false rape accuser? The leading spokesperson for American women -- a worthless liar?
Jesus, what is the world coming to?
Yep
And watch the MSM cover this up the best they can because it's oprah.
I don't know -- this just might get some coverage. It's in a lot of the papers.
Oprah needs to come forward with a clear explanation on this issue: did she or did she not lie about being sexually abused by her family, and did she concoct stories about growing up in poverty? Lying about your family is no small matter.
If somebody accused me of that I sure as hell would put a statement out there.
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