ORLANDO -- Police say a woman who claimed she was raped at Lake Eola admitted she made up the whole story.
The woman said she was pulled into the bushes and sexually battered near the 200 block of Central Boulevard in downtown Orlando around 2 a.m. on May 14.
She gave a detailed description of a man in his 50s with gray hair and a beard.
Detectives said they followed up on the claim, interviewing people the woman said she had contacted before and after the rape report.
Police said none of the witnesses could confirm the woman’s story, and there were no forensics to support her claim.
When a detective re-interviewed the victim Wednesday, police said she admitted she made it all up, and denied any sexual assault.
The woman told the detective she came up with the suspect’s description from a man who did speak to her, telling her she was attractive and did not belong on the streets.
However, she said there was no further action from there.
The false rape report led to over 100 tips from first responders and CrimeLine before the woman admitted her story was not true.
Police said not only did they spend time interviewing multiple witnesses and reviewing surveillance video, but the false report placed the entire community in fear.
"As much as there was a lot of work done on it, you know, a lot of people were gosh, they were scared. In the end, it didn't happen. But, you know, we did have that case last year that did happen. So obviously people should always -- whether it happened or not -- should always take their own proactive measures," said Sgt. Barbara Jones from the Orlando Police Department.
Why Lie?
Currently, investigators are not releasing any more information about why the woman would lie about being sexually assaulted at Lake Eola.
She could face charges for making a false report.
There are a number of reasons why someone would lie about something as serious as sexual assault.
But the bottom line is that this woman not only lied to police, she scared a lot of people.
So why would someone lie about something as serious as sexual assault?
News 13 spoke with mental health expert Deedra Hunter, who counsels sexual abuse victims.
"There has to be a reason why this woman lied," Hunter said.
Hunter, who has never met the woman, said some people lie just to get attention. Others lie as a cry for help and actually want to get caught.
"They want somebody to, perhaps, find them out and ask them ‘why would you do this?’" Hunter said.
Guilt and fear about past actions can also lead to lying.
Hunter said people who lie about rape only make it more difficult for true victims to come forward.
"For years, women weren't believed,” Hunter said. “For years, women didn't come forward because in court they would be questioned and grilled."
Orlando police encourage anyone to continue to report any suspicious activity.
They said even though this sexual assault turned out not to have happened, they will continue take all reports seriously.
FRS Comment: It would be nice, just once, to stop hearing all of the excuses as to WHY a false report was made. And of course, the same old line is trotted out that real victims of rape won't come forward because someone else lied about being raped. Some day, I would really like to see the evidence for that claim.
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The false rape report led to over 100 tips from first responders and CrimeLine before the woman admitted her story was not true.
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So 100 people called in to provide tips -- about a crime that never happened! Is that scary or what?
As for why she did it -- who fucking cares??? By asking "why? why? why?" these enablers are implying that the only reason she did it is because something was temporarily wrong with her. Not so.
She did it because she is a psychopathic monster who can't help but test the limits of what she can get away with, and she must be severely punished -- or else others will continue to commit the same crimes. That is all you need to understand, psychobabblers.
They are evil. Yes, even though they have vaginas.
@Anon 12:12...
By asking "why? why? why?" these enablers are implying that the only reason she did it is because something was temporarily wrong with her.
Understand how it works for women. They are utterly without agency. It matters little how dastardly or evil the action. If a woman did it there must be some external reason why.
"The false rape report led to over 100 tips from first responders and CrimeLine before the woman admitted her story was not true."
This opens up a whole new can of worms.
@ snark
yeah, like publicity that a man raped someone in 1980, leading to a bunch of people phoning in and saying "hey, he raped me in 1980 too"
”… pulled into the bushes and sexually battered…”
” Currently, investigators are not releasing any more information about why the woman would lie about being sexually assaulted at Lake Eola.”
” News 13 spoke with mental health expert Deedra Hunter, who counsels sexual abuse victims."There has to be a reason why this woman lied," Hunter said.”
Hum!?!?, Where have we heard something like this before – woman lies about being abducted and sexually assaulted? Oh, wait! I remember…dozens and dozens of other cases where a woman is trying to cover for her own consensual, yet illicit sexual activity (typically to try to hide her infidelity from a husband or boyfriend).
It’s getting to be an old, old story. Yet, we still see chivalrous white-knights in the police agencies “covering” for a woman’s true motives, which if known, would embarrass her. This is likely also the real reason why they so often refuse to name the false accusers – to spare them.
An anonymous poster above has remarked:
”As for why she did it -- who f’ing cares???”By asking "why? why? why?" these enablers are implying that the only reason she did it is because something was temporarily wrong with her. Not so.
She did it because she is a psychopathic monster who can't help but test the limits of what she can get away with, and she must be severely punished -- or else others will continue to commit the same crimes. That is all you need to understand, psychobabblers.”
I used to think this same way. But, over time, it has dawned on me that one reason that the true scope of the FRA problem continues to NOT sink-in with the public is that, in too many cases, the liar IS treated as temporarily insane, having done something that no-one in their right mind would have. Thus, it is also easier to convince many that such instances pose no real threat to the public at-large.
My more considered reaction is to seek to have not only the false accusers named, but heir true motives detailed, so that the public can gain better insight as to how easily and how often women WILL lie when they feel it suits their situation.
In the situation above, the mental health expert has tried to paint the accuser as a woman making a cry for help/attention. This may well serve to “comfort” many who are unsettled by a woman having been exposed as a liar, and allows them to rest easy in the belief that she was but a troubled soul, deserving of pity rather than punishment.
If, however, it could be made known (as I highly suspect the case to be) that she was simply using the excuse of being abducted and sexually assaulted to cover for the time her partner was demanding she account for (and, likely, that JBF look that Danmell Ndonye’s boyfriend related as having tipped him off that shed just come from having sex), then the public would be less likely to be forgiving of her.
My concern boils down to my suspicion that if we don’t ask why, we have surrendered that part of the battle field to those who make it their business to “cover” for the unsavory behaviors of women, who are thus given free-reign to recast them as mere victims of a troubled mind, needing care and treatment rather than punishment equivalent to that they would damn some unlucky innocent man to.
False rape accusations usually are "cries for attention." The trouble is -- they aren't temporary. Usually they have a life-long pattern of lying about people to get attention, which leads only to even more pathetic attention-seeking.
This probably begins in childhood, with an overly indulgent parent or other authority figure coddling the compulsive lying child, whose behavior is then reinforced.
For example, the Duke boys weren't Crystal Mangum's first victims. And it is totally in excusable that the charges against them weren't dismissed the split second the legal system learned that crucial fact.
Anonymous - "False rape accusations usually are "cries for attention.""
I agree with what you are saying about those instances where FRA's are a cry for attention. However, FRA's are only sometimes such cries. More often, they are meant to by their perpetrators as a means of getting out of some other trouble (Mangum made her second, best known FRA because she was about to be arrested after her fellow "stripper" called police after she could not get a very intoxicated Mangum to get out of her car; and Danmell Ndonye made her Hofstra rape lies after her boyfriend recognized that she'd just come from having sex with someone else - several "someones", as we now know).
Another common reason for an FRA is revenge.
If not for the damage that can (and has been) done to an innocent man (or women, for that matter), I'd even have some sympathy for the ones who are simply crying out for attention. But when an FRA is for personal "cover" or revenge, I certainly have zero sympathy.
My "issue" with either not reporting motive, or portraying the motive as such a "cry for help", is that it tends to leave many sympathetic to the plight of the the perp (the plight of her victim left aside in most accounts).
A false rape accusation is no more a "cry for help" than driving drunk and running somebody over, in that sense.
The longer that the FRA crisis festers, the deeper the poison will penetrate into ALL areas of social, political and cultural life.
It goes WAY beyond the issue of rape per se.
See, this is ecological.
Not believing the "victim" is only the beginning. The better known it becomes that women lie about rape, the more apt men will be to conclude that women lie about a lot of other things too!
"Misogyny" will grow. . and grow. . and grow. . .
Which, by the way, is EXACTLY what the feminists wish to see happen.
They LOVE "misogyny"; it is a one-size-fits-all propaganda bomb because it reaches out to women universally, independantly of other issues or other political leanings.
You might say it is a "pan-womanistic" rhetorical strategy.
But how long will it take for "pan-maleism" to arrive? There can be little doubt that men as a social class have lost enormous ground -- but will we stop thinking of ourselves as black vs white, rich vs poor, religious vs secular, etc?
Until that happens there may be some token progress, but I have to believe that the feminists will remain in an overwhelmingly superior position until it does.
i live in daytona bch, 60 miles from orlando.
as reported on the local news just TODAY, and on my blog, 2 OTHER women in orlando have been arrested for filing false rape claims also!
one of them said she 'did it to get back at her boyfriend'. unreal.
as i've mentioned before, all 3 of these wimmin have only been charged with misdemeanors.
make false 'rape' reports felonies goddamnit!
THAT would stop a lot of this psycho shit.
"I would really like to see the evidence for that claim."
So would I.
I seriously doubt there is any evidence, just feminist hype-mongering a hysteria-stirring.
You might say it is a "pan-womanistic" rhetorical strategy.
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Or a neo-Marxist rheetorical strategy: polarize, polarize, polarize! Until your utopian fantasies come true.
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