A mother of three who falsely accused a police officer of rape after he rejected her advances following a one-night stand was today jailed for two years.
Melissa Anne-Marie Carter, 46, took revenge on Pc Matthew Tarrant when he failed to reply to her text messages begging to see him again after they met on a dating website.
Carter, a single mum, who has three sons by two different men, continued her lies for four months during police investigations.
She only admitted the truth after officers confronted her with the text messages she had sent to the long-serving police constable, blaming her actions on ‘stress’.
Carter was today sentenced to two years at Oxford Crown Court after she pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice by making a false rape allegation.
Judge Julian Hall blasted Carter saying she had ‘betrayed the sisterhood’ and accused her of making it easier for real rapists to be acquitted.
He added: ‘The offence you committed has effects on all sorts of levels.
‘It is difficult to imagine a worse situation for a serving police officer than to be accused of rape. In his victim statement he talks about losing weight and taking time off work.
‘What you did also had a much wider impact. Government ministers and social commentators talk about the very low conviction rate [for rape].
‘These people also talk as if false complaints of rape are frequently made but they are able to say this because people like you occasionally do.
‘Some people who commit rape are acquitted because people like you make false allegations.
‘To put this a little dramatically you have betrayed the sisterhood. You kept Mr Tarrant hanging on not knowing what his fate would be for three months.’
The court heard Carter met Pc Tarrant on a dating website and invited him to meet her at her home in Banbury, Oxfordshire, which she shares with her three sons, aged 17, 15 and seven.
On October 24 2009, Pc Tarrant went to her home where they had sex and the next day he left for his job in London.
Carter sent him a text message which read: ‘Perhaps we can meet again next Wednesday.’
When he failed to reply she sent another text saying: ‘Are you ok?’
Four days later, Carter went to her local police station and claimed she had been raped by Pc Tarrant.
Paul Harrison, prosecuting, said: ‘Miss Carter met Mr Tarrant on a dating website. There had been some to-ing-and-fro-ing in messages between the two.
‘Miss Carter invited Mr Tarrant to her home on October 24 where they met for the first time face-to-face.
‘Sexual contact took place during that evening and they had full sexual intercourse. Miss Carter sent Mr Tarrant text messages which were completely inconsistent with her allegations.
‘Mr Tarrant did not reply to the text messages as it seemed he would. The prosecution maintains this led her to make a spiteful allegation against him.’
Pc Tarrant was arrested wearing full uniform at 5pm October 29 at the police station where he worked and was quizzed by officers for 6 hours before he was released at 11pm.
The court heard Pc Tarrant was not suspended but was moved to desk role and banned from having contact with the public.
Carter made repeated phone calls to the police station to enquire about how the investigation was going and what had happened to PC Tarrant.
Despite repeated interviews with police, Carter maintained she had been raped and only admitted it was a lie on February 4 when officers confronted her with the text messages she had sent to PC Tarrant.
But even when confronted with the truth Carter blamed her actions on ‘stress’.
She told officers: ‘There is no excuse for what I have done. It was a very stressful time with my family.’
Judge Hall said the false rape allegation had caused PC Tarrant, a long serving officer with the Met Police, ‘extraordinary distress’.
Mr Harrison added ‘He has been on sick leave, he was humiliated. It was an awful experience.’
Carter, who had no previous convictions, will serve 12 months in prison before being released on licence for the remainder of her sentence.
Lucy Tapper, mitigating, said: ‘In cases like these there are only ever losers. She will suffer the stigma for what she has done and will be vilified and perhaps deservedly so.’
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"You have betrayed the sisterhood." Oh no, not that!
These judges manage to make asinine comments even in the rare event that they do impose a just sentence on a rape liar.
OT- Also in the news: New York finally passed no-fault divorce, meaning that it will soon enjoy the same crumbling family structures and poverty that the rest of America already takes for granted.
http://www.examiner.com/x-50081-NY-Romance-Examiner~y2010m7d8-New-York-to-Enact-NoFault-Divorce
"She will suffer the stigma for what she has done and will be vilified and perhaps deservedly so."
I certainly hope so.
What stigma?
I really think it's absurd to imagine that false rape accusers are ever stigmatized to the same extent as their victims.
Which only makes sense. After all, if you know that someone was once accused of rape -- even if the charges were dropped after having been discredited -- there is always the chance that the accused really was guilty.
Now, who are you more afraid of: a guy who maybe could rape you, or a woman who had falsely accused a man of rape? The threat of sexual violence is far more immediate, isn't it? Because although a false rape accusations is really much worse than a rape, you know that the false rape accuser can only commit her crimes with the help of police and other gullible authorities.
Once you've been accused of rape, people will always feel very, very uncomfortable around you, unless they know you very well indeed.
Posie,
you really need to educate yourself a bit more. Do you know what a CRB check is?
I would recommend finding out, and then come back and tell us if moving is going to fix that.
Jul 9, 2010 8:20:00 AM
Jul 9, 2010 8:22:00 AM
Clearly, anyone who insists on posting after being banned has no credibility on issues of consent. This person has been explicitly and repeatedly told "no", that such comments are an unwanted violation of stated policy, yet continues force their hateful attacks.
Posie Parker - "So many other articles on this site betray your 'justice' theme....most are anti women."
!?!?! Really!?
I guess I have a couple of questions:
Did you even bother to read any of them? And, what makes them "anti woman" anyway?
Is it that they demonstrate that women can, and do lie about such things?
Is it that they give examples of woman being punished for serious crimes that harm others and cost lots of money?
Or, is it that they go against your feminist ideology that only women can be victims?
Please explain your otherwise seemingly nonsensical remark.
As a matter of correction, I should not refer to Posie Parker as a feminist, but rather as a gynocentrist.
A quick check on her reveals that she is one of those traditional Christian (Catholic) woman who call themselves anti-feminists while engaging in the same basic thinking as the most hard-core gender-feminists - men as sexual predators/rapists, men as useless idiots & and targets for bashing, men as culpable for all the ills of the world, and women as all special unique snowflakes who must be placed on pedestals where they are to be worshiped and admired. Standard gynocentric crap - same from gender-feminists and so-called Socially Conservative (SoCon) "traditional" Christian women.
"Standard gynocentric crap - same from gender-feminists and so-called Socially Conservative (SoCon) "traditional" Christian women."
Yes, indeed. Reminds me of Betty Bowers:
"So Close to Jesus, he brings people back from the dead so I can have the last word"
http://bettybowers.com/
"Lucy Tapper, mitigating, said: ‘In cases like these there are only ever losers. She will suffer the stigma for what she has done and will be vilified and perhaps deservedly so.’"
So you destroy a man's life and you only somewhat deserve vilification? It seems more and more that these days a man's life isn't worth a thing, sad.
Posie Parker - "I am an atheist"
Odd that an atheist would post so many pictures of a Catholic school with a large Crucifix so prominent in them.
One thing that you need to be "corrected" about is that many, if not most, alleged rapes do not involve violence and force, but are rather a matter of a woman experiencing after-the-fact regret over ill-considered consensual sexual encounters. Then, often after discussions with her friends, she simply re-imagines it to have been a matter of having been forced, against her will, into sex.
Yet, the men who end up being accused in such common scenarios are “tagged” with the same ”rapist” label as a predator who drug a woman into the bushes at knife-point – and the net effect on that man's life is often just as bad is if he had kidnapped and brutally raped a women.
Now, of course this is not to imply that the harrowing ordeal that some women go through in a violent rape is less than the harrowing experience of a man falsely accused. Rather, what is “suggested” in the comparison of relative harm is an averaging of many cases of “rape”-via-regret, in which the harm done to a woman is often minor (she feels bad, but even her “honor” is preserved by claiming it was rape), in with those cases in which women do suffer real and significant harms; and then, contrasting this “average” against the “average” harm done to men who've been falsely accused.
And, as to your gripes about (so labeled) “off-topic” articles posted here, just compare there relative few number to the corresponding misandry typical of feminist web-sites. What you deem as anti-woman here greatly pales in comparison to the anti-male crap elsewhere.
Posie Parker - "I am an atheist"
Odd that an atheist would post so many pictures of a Catholic school with a large Crucifix so prominent in them.
One thing that you need to be "corrected" about is that many, if not most, alleged rapes do not involve violence and force, but are rather a matter of a woman experiencing after-the-fact regret over ill-considered consensual sexual encounters. Then, often after discussions with her friends, she simply re-imagines it to have been a matter of having been forced, against her will, into sex.
Yet, the men who end up being accused in such common scenarios are “tagged” with the same ”rapist” label as a predator who drug a woman into the bushes at knife-point – and the net effect on that man's life is often just as bad is if he had kidnapped and brutally raped a women.
Now, of course this is not to imply that the harrowing ordeal that some women go through in a violent rape is less than the harrowing experience of a man falsely accused. Rather, what is “suggested” in the comparison of relative harm is an averaging of many cases of “rape”-via-regret, in which the harm done to a woman is often minor (she feels bad, but even her “honor” is preserved by claiming it was rape), in with those cases in which women do suffer real and significant harms; and then, contrasting this “average” against the “average” harm done to men who've been falsely accused.
And, as to your gripes about (so labeled) “off-topic” articles posted here, just compare there relative few number to the corresponding misandry typical of feminist web-sites. What you deem as anti-woman here greatly pales in comparison to the anti-male crap elsewhere.
Just as an aside, I'm wondering if rather than entirely deleting posts by obvious trolls, they could be moved to a separate thread/archive/whatever.
While I understand their potential for offense to those who have been falsely accused, those posts tend to be highly revealing about the positions and hatred of feminists.
While the trolls like to imagine that they're getting in hurtful "digs", they are also inadvertently exposing the truths about how gender-feminists really do view and devalue men.
And they blame us for being pro-male!
slw: you all are doing such a good job handling the thing, maybe we should let you at it.
Where in police charters does it say that law enforcement get better protection from the law, than the average citizen??
It is a societal perversion to have let the false rape culture get this ingrained into society.
Gender feminists are ussually from the upper class white America, and their villification of hetero-sexual males, justifies to the gender feminist elite that its O.K to exploit hetero-sexual male labor.... ruthlessly.
This would seem silly if it were not the truth. Now I'm no communist, but i do believe the gender / Raunch cultural elite need a taste of humble pie.
No you should delete them, because how could you possibly sit in your ignorant bliss knowing that another side of the debate is habited by people, not always feminists, just people?
I have no issue with men, but I do have issues with rapists.
This is Posie, nice to be banned, but I am concerned that someone thinks I am posting pictures with Catholic crucifixes. Either you think I'm someone else or photos are attached to my profile, either way I am an atheist and unlike some have NEVER believed in God.
I don't expect any of you to tell me what photos you can see but they're not mine.
Georgia Girl is a false accuser who made up stories about being raped in a frat house. She is a slime who should be banned forever.
http://posieparker.blogspot.com/
Your blog, you dimwit.
Posie Parker - ”I am concerned that someone thinks I am posting pictures with Catholic crucifixes. Either you think I'm someone else or photos are attached to my profile, either way I am an atheist and unlike some have NEVER believed in God.”
Your Blogger ID (that you posted under) pointed to this web site:
Posie Parker's madness, motherhood and mayhem
Which is nothing but pictures of children (your's?) at a Catholic school. Seems odd that an avowed atheist would send her children to a Catholic school.
Georgia Girl is mentally ill.
An atheist might send her kids to Catholic schools. Seems unlikely that Georgia Girl -- the crazed manhater who despises family values, such as the Catholics espoused -- would do that, but whatever.
Maybe she's into taking pictures of other people's kids and pretending they're hers. Maybe she has womb envy. (Potential fetus snatcher?)
The one thing I grow weary of is hearing some men become defensive when that -- that -- THING, or some other radical feminist, calls us "misogynists."
First, that's a word that normal, reasonable, sane people don't use. It's a moonbat feminist concoction that those sub-humans resort to in order to shame people.
Second, if defending the falsely accused makes me a misogynist, then I will wear a shirt that proudly announces, "I am a misogynist."
I often think it would be fun to make up stats like that THING does. Let me try:
Virtually all feminists are lesbians who hate men. At least 97%. The majority have falsely accused at least one or more males of rape. Most secretly love the thought of actually being raped and wish a man would rape them. Of all the rape claims reported, perhaps one percent were actual rapes -- and there is no such thing as acquaintance rape.
And THAT, my friends, is as accurate as anything that verminous thing has said on this site.
Anonymous - "Georgia Girl is mentally ill."
How did Georgia Girl come up here? Is there some suspicion that she and this Posie Parker are one-and-the-same?
Odd how trolls have the ability to effectively deflect discussions (I say as one who's obviously taken the bait).
On the matter of the story (which should be) at-hand, why did it take 2 years to find her text messages?
Some time back, I made mention of how investigators routinely do searches on accusers as well as the accused, and find out a great deal about those accusers based on the things they post on their own social networking pages.
I had another great example of this given to me last week while at a restaurant in Virginia having dinner with a number of prosecutors who where attending a training class there. Somehow or other (and, much as I'd have liked to have evoked it, I had nothing to do with it), the conversation turned to personal accounts of dealing with rape allegations which turned out to be false (it's amazing the number of prosecutors who have such accounts to share - I wish I had had my Sony ICD with me to record it...for posterity, of course).
One such account from a woman who had just the prior week had one in which her investigator looked up the accusers FaceBook page, and found her posts in which she bragged about getting her ex-boyfriend arrested, admitting that she had made the story of rape up.
It took less than half a day from the time when the file hit her desk to the time she dismissed the charges.
So, again, I have to ask: why did it take 2 years to find exculpatory text messages that could have spared the officer all that agony?
"why did it take 2 years"
Mea Culpa! It did not take 2 years to clear up the case as I had been erroneously thinking - she got 2 years time for her FRA. The case only took 8 months or so.
Damned trolls get me distracted to the point I forget what I've read.
Sorry! I'll try not to let it happen again.
Yes, that is me....I do send my children to a Catholic school, they joined mid term and there were no other places available in secular schools. Didn't post those on purpose on a blog I never write on.
It's a shame that we couldn't have had an adult discussion about your issues, seems like you'd rather believe that in order to disagree with you I am a man hating lunatic. To be honest I think that's a convenience for you.
Posie.
Sad in the knowledge that sexism like this really still exists and men still find it acceptable to call women 'whores' just to make an argument.
Posie - "It's a shame that we couldn't have had an adult discussion about your issues..."
Adult discussion should not include standard feminist/gynocentrist "shaming language", which it seems you've made plenty of use of (from what I can tell, although your posts were deleted).
It's been you who has seemed able to address any of the real points of stories presented here. You just seem to dance around the objective facts in order to claim that even the simple act of discussing the reality that some women lie about being raped and end up causing real and significant harm to men is an act of misogyny (how dare we speak ill of women?).
While it's unfortunate that some may call you names, it was never really necessary, as your own words provided the best indictment of you that could have been made.
"Sad in the knowledge that sexism like this really still exists and men still find it acceptable to call women 'whores' just to make an argument."
Sexism like calling a woman a whore is NOTHING. FUCKING NOTHING compared to what innocent men go through BECAUSE THEY ARE MEN.
More likely to be tried, more likely to be convicted, more likely to receive a prison sentence, more likely to receive longer sentences, than women who have committed exactly the same offences.
THAT is shocking sexism - and I'm not even talking about false rape accusations, where men are also the victims of sexism - guilt is assumed, because they are male.
And this is institutional - it's backed up by the entire power of the state, not one random stranger writing on a blog.
Do you see the difference? Given that we suffer this, I think it's the right of any man to call you a whore. Because it doesn't matter how 'offended' you feel, it is NOTHING compared to what innocent men go through.
"It's a shame that we couldn't have had an adult discussion about your issues, seems like you'd rather believe that in order to disagree with you I am a man hating lunatic. To be honest I think that's a convenience for you."
You have not posited a single factual statement on this blog. You have tossed out fireballs of hateful conclusory assertions that are flat-out wrong. If you had any facts, if you had any insight, I'd entertain them. But I don't go for man-hating mantras that have been disproved time and time again.
Then you have the ovaries to come here and bemoan how the dialogue isn't up to your standards!
You awful, awful, thing. There is a special place in hell for you.
Yes, that is me....I do send my children to a Catholic school, they joined mid term and there were no other places available in secular schools. Didn't post those on purpose on a blog I never write on.
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How could there be no places available in secular schools? You know that schools in this country are public, right? Do you really expect to get away with such an obvious concoction on a blog that is devoted to the discussion of false accusations?
As far calling women whores, nobody did such a thing. YOU are the only one who was called that.
And if you are who we think you are, that is a very mild epithet when compared to what you deserve! Actually, it's an insult to whores to call a false rape accuser a whore.
Georgia Girl is our own "In house False Accuser". She also seems like a serial false accuser, by all the odd accusations she makes on this blog.
"Georgia Girl is mentally ill." "How did Georgia Girl come up here? Is there some suspicion that she and this Posie Parker are one-and-the-same?"
No troll post intended. Just recognizing two peas in a pod. ;)
Can you give the link where she falsely accused somebody, thanks.
There is no link. It's just that she has claimed to have been gangraped in a frat house in 1962 while being videotaped as the rape was shown on short circuit TV -- and that just isn't very likely, considering the state of technology at the time.
She has also tried to deny that she was raped IN the frat house, even though she most assuredly DID claim that it happened in the frat house.
There is also a troll named Jeana, who fully supports lying about being raped if that's what it takes to get an abortion in Portugal.
I think I read it a long time ago. Anybody got the url?
as much as I'm loathe to post this:
http://www.georgia-tech-rape-victim2.blogspot.com/
I fell victim to Dickinson's most heinous crime, and repressed the memories for 44 years. He methodically planned a gang rape in my "honor" several days in advance ... my body was invaded and my life derailed. I never mentioned the incident to anyone, nor did I confront Dickinson. Confronting him would mean acknowledging to myself that the assault had actually occurred … too horrible for my conscious mind to accept, and at that time, the words drugged and raped never occurred to me. The truth was indisputable, yet I forced myself into denial, refusing to believe it happened. It was too unthinkable to imagine! And the fact that I knew some of the perpetrators made the truth that much harder to process. None of Dickinson's crimes would be challenged until 2006 when the memories of 1962 began to emerge.
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She didn't fucking remember this until 2006? LOL!
Stupid, lying, crazy piece of shit! I hope that guy sues her everything she's got.
So why hasn't he sued her yet? That blog has been up there for at least 3 years. I loathe false accusers, but sometimes we need to give credit where credit is due.
Credit for being a total scumbag? WTF are you talking about?
No offense intended. I just think you'd be wiser to leave this accusation alone.
"Leave this accusation alone", I say, I have been around this site for years and have watched her inconsistant lies in nearly every false account of what she says happenned to her.
Most men still do not believe women and girls lie about being raped EVEN WHEN THE PROOF IS SHOVED IN THEIR FACES OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
Enabling false rape accusers is no longer about "Protecting women", for the new Gender / Raunch community have taken over the "hysteria klan", and they get "Empowered" by the missinformation that all hetero-sexual males are rapists.
8:54: And why would leave a false accusation alone? That's like leaving a dirty pool full of mosquito larvae alone.
I too have asked how GG gets away with her site.
I noticed she removed some pictures of a woman dancing with the man she accused titled "Are we gellin'?" Did that woman demand her picture be removed?
I have sometimes entertained the notion of posting a similar site of my false accuser, including the medical "evidence" that proved she lied.
I seriously don't know how she gets away with this.
"I seriously don't know how she gets away with this."
Come now. You must be aware of the legal term Vejayjay clause!
TMOTS
Well, what are those guys going to do? Take her to court and somehow prove that they didn't rape her 48 years ago?
Her inanity and obvious need for attention aren't enough proof -- if they were then Al Gore would have nothing to worry about.
So you are saying any nut job hag can post names, locations and pictures of men she attended college with, accuse them of horrific crimes...and get a V pass?
What is to stop anyone from doing this to anyone else?
Surely those men can sue to get this removed.
...or maybe not. I quit following the Jan Kruska Vs. Perverted Justice debacle. It went beyond madness.
"So you are saying any nut job hag can post names, locations and pictures of men she attended college with, accuse them of horrific crimes...and get a V pass?"
No, she gets a V-pass only if she's telling the truth.
That is perhaps the most naive comment I've ever seen on this blog.
You think she's telling the truth? Are you insane?
8:32: I just read about that Jan Kruska thing. I find it very, very disturbing that some people will post the name and address of a mother of four on the internet after calling her a "pedophile activist."
Apparently it's okay to have threatening phone calls sent to a house with four children, as if that won't terrorize them.
Thank you, Anonymous, for taking the time to read about Jan Kruska.
I became a 'pen pal' of hers years ago, she shared in my protests of my son's false accusation.
To those of you who wonder why more women/wives/ mothers don't speak out or become more vocal about false accusations, I cannot urge you more to read what happened to this woman.
I have narrowly escaped becoming a target of this group myself for speaking out about false accusations. They have my name along with a large group of petition signers, which is why I feel compelled to "lay low" - even though my son's case is as horrific and blatant as they come.
The reality they could target HIM in this way keeps my silence.
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That is perhaps the most naive comment I've ever seen on this blog.
You think she's telling the truth? Are you insane?
Jul 11, 2010 10:24:00 PM
Look at your own naive comment -
Since when does 'The Truth" really matter in a court of law?
10:49: Are you talking about that hick group called "the absolute zero blog" (something like that) where the first thing you see is a bunch of rednecks with guns, and it's talking about how "we have to be better armed than the meatsacks who molest children"? When I was reading about Jan I stumbled upon them.
They also had this huge banner protesting "man/boy love day," whatever that is. Funny thing is: I never would have heard of it if I hadn't gone to that sight, and I suspect that the entire North American continent has never heard of it except for 50 pedophiles, 10 vigilantes and 2 or 3 MRAs.
"I suspect that the entire North American continent has never heard of it except for 50 pedophiles, 10 vigilantes and 2 or 3 MRAs."
I'm none of those things, but they have targeted me for speaking out against false accusers.
That any 'group' however small, can do this to another person is repugnant. It's just wrong.
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