This sort of reporting is typical of how rape claims are reported in this country, and this particular case illustrates the immense power of a false rape accuser to use the news media to advance and give legitimacy to her prevarications. Women are too readily believed by the mainstream news outlets. Some of them, looking both for sensational stories and to appear to be politically correct, almost seem to be rooting for the claim to be a fact, as awful as that seems, just because a woman said it happened.
(Thanks to Michael for the tip.)
EARLIER THIS WEEK:
From WDTN TV's website:
Lebanon Police are searching for an abductor who snatched a college student from her front yard. Police said the victim was taking out the trash Monday morning in the 600 block of Franklin Road when two men approached her. The victim said they blindfolded and gagged her, tied her up, forced her into a car, and then drove to a wooded area where they assaulted her. There are no descriptions of either the suspects or their vehicle.
[Note the use of conclusory terminology that presented the "crime" as a fact. The "abductor," not the "alleged" abductor, "snatched" a college student, not "allegedly" snatched a college student. The report hides behind "police said" this or that. "The victim" -- not the "alleged" victim or the "accuser" -- was approached by two men -- not "allegedly" approached" by two men, who, of course, did terrible things to "the victim."]
From WHIO radio's website:
Lebanon police are investigating the abduction of a 21-year-old woman who was later found bound and gagged. . . . . Authorities say the woman was abducted early Monday morning while taking the trash out at her home on Franklin Rd. when she was approached by two men and forced into their car where she was blind-folded, gagged and bound. Authorities say the men drove the woman to an undisclosed area where they held her there for approximately 15 hours and sexually assaulted her. At some point during the abduction, police say the men left her alone and she managed to escape back to her family's home where they found her still tied up and laying in the front yard.
[More of the same conclusory terminology that assumes a rape occurred. Not once does the report say where the police obtained information about the alleged event -- was it based solely on the "victim's" word?]
From WHIO TV's website:
The Lebanon Police Department is investigating an abduction of a 21-year-old woman.The investigation began on Monday with a report around 2:40 p.m. by family members that the victim was missing. Officers said at approximately 10 p.m., officers and medics were dispatched to a yard on Franklin Road near Norman Lane where the victim was found bound and gagged. According to police, the woman took the trash out early Monday morning from her home and was approached by two men. The men then forced her into a car, where they blindfolded her, gagged her and bound her wrists. Sgt. Jeff Mitchell said, "Between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. Monday morning, she was taken from in front of her residence." Police said the men drove the woman to an undisclosed wooded area, where they held her for 15 hours and sexually assaulted her at times. Investigators said the men eventually left the woman alone, allowing her to escape and return to her home. Officers said the woman found by her family members lying in the front yard bound and gagged. She was taken to the Atrium Medical Center in Middletown. The name of the victim has not been released. Investigators said they are talking to witnesses and the victim to get more information about what happened.
[The same. The accuser is a "victim" and the reporter is content to write down what "police said." Joseph Pulitzer would be proud.]
Here's one report that reported it the right way:
Woman, 21, found bound and gagged:
LEBANON - Police are investigating after a 21-year-old woman was found bound and gagged in a residential yard late Monday.
The woman was found outside on Franklin Road near Norman Lane about 10 p.m. and taken to Atrium Medical Center in Middletown, police said. Her name and condition have not been released.
Police began searching for her earlier Monday after her family reported her missing about 2:40 p.m.
Police are talking with the woman and say they are working on developing leads in the case.
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YESTERDAY:
UPDATED: College student lies about abduction and sexual assault
By Mike Ivcic
LEBANON, Ohio - Investigators said Thursday that a local 21-year-old pulled a hoax on local law officials. Police in Lebanon, though, aren't laughing.
Police said that Kristen Lamb of Lebanon admitted to making up the story of her abduction and sexual assault on Thursday.
Monday, police received a report around 2:40 p.m. by family members that Lamb was missing. Then, at approximately 10 p.m. Monday night, officers and medics were dispatched to a yard on Franklin Road near Norman Lane where Lamb was found bound and gagged by her family.
The University of Cincinnati nursing student originally told police that she was abducted by two men between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. while taking out the trash in front of her residence.
She then claimed to police that the men drove her to an unknown wooded area where they held her for 15 hours and raped her. Lamb said that the men eventually left her alone for a time, allowing her to escape and return home.
However, in an interview with investigators on Thursday, Lamb admitted that she fabricated the entire story. She said that she went to a wooded area and sat there for more than 15 hours after using zip ties from her father's tool box to bind her own wrists and using a pillow case from her room to cover her head.
Investigators said that Lamb took them to the wooded area north of her home, where they found the pillow case and one zip tie.
Lamb told police that she had no assistance or contact from anyone while she was gone.
Police say they attribute Lamb's actions to her family's attention to her brother's recent wedding.
Investigators are now talking with prosecutors about possible criminal charges against Lamb.
[FRS Note to reporter Mike Ivcic: We don't know if you wrote the earlier story about the alleged abduction and sexual assault that appeared on your news outlet's website, but did the authorities really say that the woman had been abducted, as your news outlet reported in the earlier story? Or did the authorities tell your news outlet merely that the woman "claimed" she had been abducted, as you reported in the updated story? Do you see the difference? When a news outlet tells its readers that "police said" something happened, that is a hell of a lot different than reporting that police said that a lone accuser "claimed" something happened. The former will be automatically believed as fact; the latter will be taken with a grain of salt. But I suspect that reporters know that. And I suspect that some reporters -- I don't mean Mr. Ivcic -- are content with having their readers believe that a mere claim of sexual assault was an actual sexual assault.]
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Anybody who thinks that women have no motive to lie about being raped need to read news stories like this. If there wasn't a psychological payoff for committing insane frauds like this then this wouldn't happen so often -- but obviously it does.
"The victim, the victim, the victim!" Yeah, right!
As has been pointed out many times on this blog, once the accuser is annointed with the word "victim!" nothing else matters to the average reader. That word is benedictory as well as conclusory.
It's like annointing the false rape accuser's forehead with oil and wrapping the wings of the legal/media system around her protectively. To doubt "the victim" is a sacrilege!
The "victims" either are not too smart or have real problems, because when their stories are revealed to be frauds, some of them make it into the newspapers, and they look like they're nuts. Let's be honest. But then again, these young women don't tell rape lies expecting to be caught.
"That word is benedictory as well as conclusory. It's like annointing the false rape accuser's forehead with oil and wrapping the wings of the legal/media system around her protectively. To doubt "the victim" is a sacrilege!"
Excellent!
So I came home from work, took a shower, ate some food, and started to check my feeds; I went first to Facebook and then on to my RSS feeds. The first was for a blog written by a self-professed libertarian. The topic of his most recent entry? A proposed bill by a Michigan legislator that calls for licensing for journalists. The next was yours.
It's an amazing coincidence that you and he posted entries to your blogs on topics that go hand-in-hand with one another. While one could argue that requiring journalists to have degrees in journalism would be a net positive for the public in a utopian world, it can hardly be argued, if one assumes that the reporters who write the stories that you so frequently criticize for being full of errors actually have degrees in journalism, that A) a degree in journalism is worth the paper that it's written on, given the voluminous errors contained in so many stories today and B) that politics wouldn't rule the licensing process, allowing lobbyists to dictate what is and isn't good journalism based upon their own beliefs about what ought and ought not to be talked about and how what ought to be talked about is talked about. Given that those assumptions are true (and I think it's pretty fair to assume that they are), this bill would only end up being a net negative for the public.
but did the authorities really say that the woman had been abducted, as your news outlet reported in the earlier story?
Pierce,
The authorities told me my husband was a convicted felon (among other things). They then told the paper the same thing which was printed front page center.
Of course, knowing Law Enforcement never lies, I believed I had been lied to for 12 years by my husband.
Now I KNOW he is not a convicted felon and every single thing they told me and the media was a lie.
Just thought I would mention that LE does lie and they lie often.
CBGirl
I think that bill is very misguided and almost certainly unconstitutional, but I agree that one of the worst problems we have as a society is bad information being believed by ignorant people -- who vote.
Constitutional and unconstitutional are just words that are given meaning by people. If you change who gets to determine the meaning of those words then you change the meaning of those words. Heck, just take a look at the current discussion. The word victim has been given a whole new meaning in today's society. A victim is no longer someone who's had something terrible happen to her; a victim is now someone who claims that something terrible has happened to her. A rapist is no longer someone who actually did rape someone; a rapist is now someone who was either A) convicted of raping someone or, even worse, B) accused of raping someone. How did this change occur? By the relentless pressure of well-organized radical feminists.
Never underestimate the power of large numbers of morons and be even more wary of the possibility of politicians and bureaucrats using their powers in ways that you didn't think they could (how many people blinked an eye when Joe Lieberman declared that he was going to introduce a bill that would allow the federal government to strip Americans of their citizenship so that the federal government could treat them as the non-persons that Elena Kagan claims them to be?).
J. at 10:31: Excellent point. I once had an exchange of emails with a newspaper reporter who REFUSED to back down from calling an accuser a "victim." On the other hand, the NY Times immediately added the word "alleged" before that word when I called its reporter on the improper use of that word. By any objective measure, it is improper to call a rape accuser a "victim" because to do so means that any male she accuses must be a "rapist."
Here is something that I was just thinking.
Remember the guy named I think Richard Jewel?
He was falsely accused of being the olympic park bomber. I think he sued the media over falsely accusing him.
Well if the media does not say "alleged" then they are saying you are a rapist....why can't you sue them for falsely accusing you of being a rapist?
Also I wanted to add to CB Girl that growing up my friends and I were harassed all the time by cops and yes they are big time liars.
(how many people blinked an eye when Joe Lieberman declared that he was going to introduce a bill that would allow the federal government to strip Americans of their citizenship so that the federal government could treat them as the non-persons that Elena Kagan claims them to be?).
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A few did. Not enough.
Yeah, Joe has never been Mr. Civil Liberties.
"Lebanon Police are searching for an abductor who snatched a college student from her front yard. Police said the victim was taking out the trash Monday morning in the 600 block of Franklin Road when two men approached her. The victim said they blindfolded and gagged her, tied her up, forced her into a car, and then drove to a wooded area where they assaulted her. There are no descriptions of either the suspects or their vehicle."
Wait....wait.....wait... YES! I got it! BINGO!
Whoo! I win!
"Of course, knowing Law Enforcement never lies, I believed I had been lied to for 12 years by my husband."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Ask any cop off-duty and they'll tell you they are legally allowed to lie to you at any time,about anything, for any reason. Cops lie about 98% of the time, and the rest of the time they're stretching the truth. The default position should be, and was originally intended to be, a presumption that the cop is lying,not that he is telling the truth.
Why do you think all those paranoid-sounding protections were written into the Constitution and bill of rights, such as the provisions against illegal search and seizure, probable cause, and such? It's because cops and government officials have been abusing their power FOREVER.
"Constitutional and unconstitutional are just words that are given meaning by people. If you change who gets to determine the meaning of those words then you change the meaning of those words. Heck, just take a look at the current discussion. The word victim has been given a whole new meaning in today's society. A victim is no longer someone who's had something terrible happen to her; a victim is now someone who claims that something terrible has happened to her. A rapist is no longer someone who actually did rape someone; a rapist is now someone who was either A) convicted of raping someone or, even worse, B) accused of raping someone. How did this change occur? By the relentless pressure of well-organized radical feminists."
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. There's definitely some Orwellian shit going on today with the continually shifting definitions of clearly defined and intuitively grasped words, such as "rape","victim","terrorist" and such. Even "slut",I'm increasingly seeing the word used to describe a man,when the first definition in the dictionary is "a slovenly WOMAN".
Either the movie Idiocracy was written by a latter-day prophet or somebody is intentionally dumbing down the population while simultaneously feeding them a stream of ludicrous misinformation,maybe for laughs,to see what they'll swallow, or maybe for a more sinister purpose.
I can't decide which is more frightening, but anybody who is still reasonable and intelligent enough to listen and understand, be on your guard against this newspeak shit that's going on, it is DEFINITELY NOT "double-plus good".
OT, but here you go....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1282575/Couple-discover-siblings-Child-courts-blamed-strangers-fall-love-son--half-brother-sister.html
Why do you think all those paranoid-sounding protections were written into the Constitution and bill of rights, such as the provisions against illegal search and seizure, probable cause, and such? It's because cops and government officials have been abusing their power FOREVER.
I LOVE that... sounds like the beginning of a nice lawsuit. ;)
CBGirl
Got your message, Archivist. I've just been scrolling back through your recent posts I've missed while I've been away - fantastic work.
Would your intentions now have anything to do with publicly exposing the little piggies like Ruth Hall who want to deny presumptively innocent men their anonymity - bringing to light who she really is?
Feel free to use the Strike Force blog - seriously. It was never set up just for me to decide when to post action items.
Off-topic:
A forensics nurse speaks out on CGM and the Duke Lacrosse Case.
http://harfordmedlegal.typepad.com/forensics_talk/2007/01/no_surprise_duk.html
" I was not surprised to hear the Revelation on CBS' 60 Minutes last night that the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case has a long psychiatric history (bi-polar) and has been on Seroquel and Depakote.
From the beginning, in my posts and via private communications, I questioned whether this woman was on any psychotropic medications and whether or not she was having episodes of delusions.
First of all, I'd like to clarify that I do not believe that just because someone has a history of psychiatric illness, any complaint they might make of sexual assault should just be tossed out the window.
Just because someone has a mental illness doesn't mean they can't be raped. Sexual assault can happen to anyone of any race, age, occupation, or mental condition.
However, I also believe that any complaint of sexual assault should be thoroughly investigated, prior to charging a suspect(s). That should include investigating the back ground of the accuser as well, especially if they have an illness which might cause them to have personality or conduct disorders, delusions, or hallucinations.
While I agree that there is still too much stigma attached to mental illness, and complaints should not be ignored on that basis alone, we have to be realistic too.
We need to realize that sometimes the accuser's reality may not be the same as everyone else's. I believe to ignore that possibility is to commit a grave injustice against anyone who might be charged with such a crime.
A Victim Would Never Lie!
I have read and heard this phrase so many times in the last 10 months. People have been shouting this from their soapboxes left and right - as if this one statement is enough to assure everyone within hearing distance that the three Duke lacrosse players are guilty.
Why would a victim lie?, they ask. So these boys have to be guilty. Absolutely. No question about it, right?
Wrong.
On the surface, that statement is correct. No true victim would lie. However, not all accusers are true victims - and people need to realize that.
Most women wouldn't lie. Unfortunately, there is a small segment of the population who, for whatever reason - vindictiveness, guilt, regret, fear of their parents finding out what they've been up to - attempt to manipulate the system outright by making false accusations.
Then there are others who may suffer from various mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, histrionic personality or Munchhausen's Syndrome which may hinder rational behavior.
The detectives in our area take a dim view of false accusers.
Of my own patients alone, I have had one arrested right there at the hospital, as she walked out of the SANE exam room.
A second one, who they believed had staged the crime scene, was for possible arrest.
And a third was going to be arrested as well, except that I asked if the police could get her to mental health services instead.
My impression at the time was that she was totally out of touch with reality. She actually believed what she was saying. I didn't think it was right to arrest someone who was that delusional.
Persons like Victoria Peterson and Wendy Murphy should not stand there and try to tell everyone that no accuser would ever make a false claim. Experienced SANE / FNE's know better....."
Off-topic:
Tonya Craft Trial: The Unconscionable Shredding Of a Professional Reputation
http://harfordmedlegal.typepad.com/forensics_talk/2010/05/tonya-craft-trial-the-shredding-of-a-professional-reputation.html
Crystal Mangum wasn't hallucinating. She knew exactly what she was doing.
Her repeated slurs against the Duke victims since then prove it.
I live in Cincinnati and heard multiple news report on the radio. From the first report I heard red flags went off and I was just waiting for the truth to come out. Here's her Myspace page (http://www.myspace.com/kristenmichellelamb).
These types of cases where a female claims she was abducted are almost unknown and the cops should have been immediately suspicious.There have been a few cases of a child abducted over the years(this is almost unheard of too) but how many adult females have ever been abducted?
Tawanna Brawley? Patty Hearst? lol
Hearst was kidnapped in her bathrobe from her house but yet have her driving license in her pocket so it could be sent to her father when the ransom demand was made. How many people carry their license in their bathrobe pocket? lol
Abductions never happen in real life only in films.Years ago there used to be pictures of kids on milk cartons and people were led to believe that perhaps 1/2 million kids had been abducted. In reality, the FBI reports about a 100 really missing people a year(about 20 are kids and most are recovered) Those picture on the cartons were not real abductions and were either cases where one parents just took the kid and ran away or the kid ran away from home.
OT: Violence Against Women Act: Turning the Unwary into Political Roadkill?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
By Carey Roberts
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2010/05/26/violence-against-women-act-turning-the-unwary-into-political-roadkill/
Notice how the feminist organixatio NOW celebrates the political death of one of it's whiteknights.
The rise and "Empowerment" of the Gender / Raunch community, is directly inverse related to the war on hetero-sexual males, fathers and fammilies.
The Gender / Raunch community, in order to "Empower" themselves, had to find a common enemy to step on, to use as there stepping stone.
The rise and "Empowerment" of the Gender / Raunch community, is directly inverse related to the war on hetero-sexual males, fathers and fammilies.
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I think he means the exact opposite: that it's directly proportionate.
I'm still trying to figure out what "gender / raunch means." Maybe he never heard that feminists are traditionally anti-porn crusaders.
<---Michael,
As soon as I read this news report, I turned to Amy, my ex-wife, and told her that this woman was full of shit. Her story was so fake that it burned inside me. I was so pissed about it that I talked about it for days. Then the news reported that she was a lying bitch, and I was so damned happy! People like her piss me off so bad!
BTW, Thank you FRS for your blogs as they help to open people's eyes to the BS that some people spew.
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