Comment about news story below: The news story below provides few details but it does reference a specific "suspect" who was falsely accused. We don't know if he was arrested, or questioned, but this is another disturbing case of a young woman blithely playing the false rape card, with all the possible attendant dire consequences to a man's life, to achieve some petty, selfish end. In Schenck v. United States, Justice O.W. Holmes, one of the most revered of all American jurists, famously wrote: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic."
Falsely crying "rape" needs to be treated as a public calamity. Shouting fire in a crowded theater is no worse than shouting "rape" in a roomful of men. The "r" word needs to be regarded as a sacred shibolleth, reserved for actual rape with the most severe penalties for its misuse. Police would in no manner discourage rape claims by arresting those who turn out to have lied, and they would not be punished until their falsehood is proven beyond a reaonable doubt. Instead of discouraging rape claimants, this would have the opposite effect: far fewer women would lie about rape, and the credibility of rape victims would be enhanced. Our system does no favors to rape victims by refusing to punish rape lies with much greater severity, and it does a grave injustice to innocent persons falsely accused.
Police: Rape story told to get quicker ER service
Police investigating a rape recently found that the complainant made up the story so she'd get quicker service in a hospital emergency room.
On March 30, Clarksville Police were called to the Gateway Medical Center ER to investigate a rape, according to a news release Wednesday from spokesman Officer Jim Knoll.
The complainant, Krystalynn Nicole French, said she did not want to have sex with the suspect and told him several times to stop, but he would not.
Police Detective Heather Boyce determined that no rape occurred. French had gone to the emergency room for a medical problem and was afraid the ER staff would "blow her off" and make her wait a long time, so she made up the allegation, the release said.
French, 20, of Clarksville, was charged with false report and booked into Montgomery County Jail on $1,000 bond.
Link: http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20100408/NEWS01/4080307/Police-Rape-story-told-to-get-quicker-ER-service
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7081986.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084
really, essential reading.
”Falsely crying "rape" needs to be treated as a public calamity.”
This is exactly correct, and there’s no getting around it. Falsely claiming to have been raped is nothing like falsely reporting that one has been robbed, for instance. FRA’s set in motion a chain of events that, as we’ve seen in some cases, can get innocent men sent to prison or even killed. Federal law needs to be corrected so as to allow stiffer penalties for FRA’s than for other false reports. Once federal law is changed, allowing for charges akin to the Perversion of Justice we see applied in the UK, state and local statute will follow suit, and we might finally see some real “teeth” behind the effort to prevent FRA’s.
As it stands, the personal calculus for women considering FRA’s too often includes the sure knowledge that she will face little to no tangible consequence if she chooses to initiate that FRA. There needs to be an atmosphere wherein she would be forced to balance the possibility of very serious (and fitting) punishment against whatever she could hope to gain via that FRA, if she does opt to take that route.
A person who would make a false claim as part of an insurance fraud certainly faces stiff felony penalties – and that’s just a money crime. It should be no less for crimes which can endanger the lives and reputations of others
From the article linked by AfOR, which goes to support the idea of stiffer punishments for crimes which can gravely harm others:
"He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. He was also made subject to a restraining order and has been ordered to sign the sex offenders register."
So, if a man can be given 4.5 years, and required to register as a sex offender for trying to break up a marriage by planting child pornography, certainly a woman who sets out to destroy a man's life with an FRA should find herself in equal jeopardy.
"French had gone to the emergency room for a medical problem and was afraid the ER staff would "blow her off" and make her wait a long time, so she made up the allegation, the release said."
Fortunately, once again, a story explains why the woman chose to make an FRA. Here's the reason was nothing more than receiving faster and preferential treatment. Hopefully those reading that story will become more aware of just how little true motivation there often is behind a woman's FRA, and how complete selfish women who make them are. They're not rare, random crazies with serious mental issue; they're just seemingly normal women who coldly calculate that they can gain some benefit fro themselves by claiming one of the most serious, and seriously held crimes.
It's interesting that feminists assure us that we don't need to worry about false rape convictions, since our system affords us protection "beyond a reasonable doubt" -- and yet any mention of prosecuting false rape accusers causes their blood to freeze. What's the matter, fems? Skeletons in the closet? Isn't "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" all the assurance that you have nothing to worry about?
slwerner is correct in that FRAs are much more dangerous than false reports of other crimes because of the extent to which a man may be charged or convicted based largely on the alleged victim's testimony.
If I am falsely accused of, say, theft, it is not the end of the world because unless there is concrete evidence linking me to the crime (like say finding stolen goods in my home), I am unlikely to be charged or convicted. The worst that will happen is I might get hassled by the police for a short amount of time.
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