Want to get back at your boyfriend for not helping with the housework? Don't just talk to him about it and tell him how it offends you when he doesn't help. Tell the police he raped you and try to destroy his life. The next time a progressive self-righteously, sarcastically, and incredulously inquires, "Why would a woman lie about rape, given the ordeal she knows she will be put through?" Just tell her about Faye Pendlebury, featured in the news story below, who told a rape lie to get back at her boyfriend for that very "infraction."
Sadly, we have reported on this site rape lies told for far less serious "infractions." A male teacher reprimands you? Tell mommy he raped you -- it'll send him to jail, ruin his marriage, end his career, and pretty much destroy his life. A cab driver threatens to call the police over an unpaid fare? Just tell the police he raped you and send him to jail. A boy in school rejects you? He does so at his peril, because countless young women have told rape lies in that situation. Your father grounds you? He risks his life for doing that because you can destroy him with one phone call.
In the story below, Ms. Pendlebury appeared "shocked and stunned" as she was led from the dock by security staff to be locked away for eight months. She likely was "shocked and stunned" because custodial sentences for false rape lies are so rare. Perhaps if more would-be rape liars understood that their lies would lead to a custodial sentence, the power to cry "rape" would not be so terribly abused.
Woman jailed over false rape claim
Published Date: 28 July 2010
A CARE assistant has been locked up for eight months for lying to police that her boyfriend raped her.
Faye Pendlebury, aged 36, made the claim as a "point scoring" exercise during a volatile relationship, Sheffield Crown Court heard.
After she made her false claim Pendlebury's 32-year-old boyfriend Alan Jones was arrested and detained by police.
He was later released on bail but was re-arrested after she lied again, this time claiming he had assaulted her.
Pendlebury said she concocted the second fictional attack to get back at him for not helping her with the housework. Judge Simon Lawler QC told Pendlebury: "False complaints of rape are always regarded as a very serious matter. It is quite impossible to avoid an immediate custodial sentence."
Pendlebury, of Britain Street, Mexborough, appeared shocked and stunned as she was led from the dock by security staff.
Louise Gallagher, prosecuting, said Pendlebury was arrested during a 3am disturbance at Mr Jones' home in Goldthorpe, near Barnsley. She was drunk, agitated and screaming, and was taken to Barnsley police station for breaching the peace.
During questioning she appeared frightened and showed officers bruising on her thighs. She asked to see a doctor and then claimed she had been raped by Mr Jones.
He was arrested at 5.15am on suspicion of rape and taken to Ecclesfield police station for questioning. DNA samples were also taken from him.
Mr Jones, who had also been drinking, remained in police custody for 10.5 hours until he was granted bail.
Three days later Pendlebury contacted the police again and accused Mr Jones of assaulting her while on bail by punching her on the nose and hitting her with a bottle.
He was arrested again but soon afterwards Pendlebury admitted the assault was untrue.
Miss Gallagher said: "She said it had been made up to get back at Mr Jones for not helping her with the housework."
The next day she admitted she had cried rape to "score points" against Mr Jones after her arrest.
She was then detained and told police she had been so drunk she could not remember making the rape claim.
Pendlebury said: "It was point scoring, I honestly thought they would not believe me."
She admitted perverting the course of justice.
Robert Sandford, defending, said she had undergone treatment for a drink problem. Mr Sandford said she had been in a relationship with Mr Jones' father and they had two children. When the relationship ended last December, she took up with Alan Jones.
He said she had taken steps to improve her life by moving away from her former address on Victoria Street, Goldthorpe to Mexborough.
Link: http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Woman-jailed-over-false-rape.6443378.jp
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As I keep reading this blog the excuses for women lying about rape get stupider and stupider. At the very least all women who lie about rape should be sent to jail and then sent to do community service at places that offer counseling for real sexual assault victims and domestic violence shelters upon release.
It's scary to think what would have happened to that guy if she didn't admit it was made up.
..I hope this doesn't quadruple post, as it appears I'm having a connection issue.
In reading through the comments on the linked article (always uplifting to see that in almost every instance, comments run overwhelmingly towards the ideals expressed on FRS), I find that no less a luminary figure than Steve Moxon has weighed in. I've taken the liberty to reproduce his entire comment here (reference to studies and researchers on FRA's, as a bonus):
Fabricated rape claims to police are conservatively 35% of all reports to police. By the Home Office's own figures and analyses (see their two special reports on rape) it is incontrovertibly 25%; but adding a proportion of the 'not proven' cases (given that many of these must also be fabrications), gives you an estimate of 35%.
It is likely far greater even than this, though, because police specialist rape investigators put the figure at 50%-80% (and that is from a study by Ian Blair, no less). Around the world, police force rape investigators place it variously between 50% and 90%.
It seems then that the majority of rape complaints to police are likely fabrications. There is research on both sides of the Atlantic (over here, Professor Soothill's) into the often extremely trivial reasons behind why so many women readily tend to perpetrate this appalling crime. Very clearly, anonymity for those accused of rape at all stages up to conviction is required.
As in the present case, similar issues beset reports by women of intimate-partner violence. [By the author of the book, The Woman Racket.]
"As I keep reading this blog the excuses for women lying about rape get stupider and stupider."
I think there have always been false rape accusations for extremely petty reasons, but now more and more of them are being reported and caught by the police.
As I said many times before, most false rape accusations are not reported to the police, which is not required to ruin someone's life.
Pendlebury said: "It was point scoring, I honestly thought they would not believe me."
Which doesn’t seem to square with her other statement: “…she had been so drunk she could not remember making the rape claim.”
How is it one can explain why they made a claim, when they cannot remember even having made it?
Also, the part about believe that she would not be believed doesn’t seem to square with either the fact that he was held for over 10 hours (she should have recognized that as a sign that she had been believed, and stopped the lie right away); nor that fact that she latter had him re-arrested with another lie. She knew quite well, right from the start that she would be believed, and that’s exactly why she made the claims that she did – she knew that HE would get into trouble.
What a pathetic bunch of BS her back-tracking is…”I was too drunk to know what I was doing”, “I didn’t even want to be believed”, “It’s not my fault!”
Right!
I don't think you guys really get it. False rape allegations are such a minor problem in comparison with the much greater problem of men not doing sufficient housework.
Within the greater scheme of things, it is a small price to pay for a few men to be social lepers or do a bit of time for something they didn't do, if it means more rubbish gets taken out and households run smoothly.
Speaking for myself, I like to keep my place pretty tidy and I have never been falsely accused of rape. Hmmm. Coincidence? Or perhaps the universe trying to tell us all something?
This is a messed up group of people.
She dated the father, had 2 children, then dated the son of the father?
this guy was sleeping with his half-siblings mother!
Feminist websites and bloggers will bend over backwards to ignore such cases. They simply can't address FRAs or even honestly acknowledge such things happen because of one simple phrase that feminists have used to anchor their ideology:
"The personal is the political."
This phrase, while deep in the waters of logical fallacy, can be turned adroitly against feminists when they are confronted with the increased litany of well-publicized false rape accusation cases against men.
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