NEWPORT NEWS — Police in Newport News have charged a 17-year-old girl with filing a false rape report, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in prison and a $2,500 fine.
The girl has not been identified to the media because she is a juvenile.
Police spokesman Lou Thurston said that on Sept. 16, officers went to a home in the Dresden Drive area after receiving a report of a burglary and rape. The girl told officers she was home alone when an armed man accosted and raped her, then stole a firearm from the residence.
Several units, including a K-9 patrol and the special victims unit, investigated and the girl was taken to a local hospital for treatment. After an investigation that lasted several days, detectives determined that no rape or burglary had occurred. The girl was charged on Wednesday with filing a false police report.
Link:
http://www.dailypress.com/news/newport-news/dp-nws-fale-report-20100923,0,4051809.story
I'm not sure if this is the same individual, but notice the additional details in the story:
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) - A 17-year-old girl told police she was raped last Thursday. Come to find out, she made the whole thing up, according to Newport News police spokesman Lou Thurston.
The teen reported she was letting her dog out when she turned around and a guy was standing there, Thurston said. She then proceeded to tell police that the armed man forced her to take off her clothes and raped her, while also stealing a gun from the home.
Several patrol units, including K-9, attempted to track the suspect. Special Victims Unit detectives also responded and began a thorough investigation, while the victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
After an investigation that lasted several days, it was determined that neither a rape or burglary every occurred, Thurston said.
The girl has since been charged in connection with the incident and police want to express how important it is that these people get charged. False reports take officers away from real investigations and waste time and money, Thurston said. It's a serious offense.
The teen has been charged with filing a false police report. Her identity is being withheld due to her age.
Filing a false police report is a class one misdemeanor punishable by up to twelve months in jail and a $2,500 fine.
Link:
http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/crime/police%3A-teen-fabricates-rape-story
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Another great example.
Here is a 17 year old girl whose name is withheld because of her age.
But an 11 year old boy ALLEGEDLY committing a crime is named and a big mug shot photo of him is put out everywhere.
@Arod99k, what are you talking about?
Had this been you or me, we would be in jail right now facing False Rape charges.
Since these are officers being falsely accused, they are going to throw the book at this 51 50.
This is called the good old boys system, cops looking out for cops. Prosecutors dismiss or reduce charges for friends, just ask Slwerner.
Gender feminism (which is now being fueled by the modern American law enforcement; "manufactured statistics" practices), has conditioned false rape accusations into these young girls.
Gender / Raunch feminism has power grabbed a disproportionate amount of power on university campuses around the country by the strategic use of "faulty and inflammatory manufactured statistics" that attack males (well the heterosexual ones).
Law enforcement are still under the misguided impression they are "protecting women" when they arrest an innocent male in a domestic violence call. They have not yet realized the the new feminism they are feeding the manufactured statistics to, is "Gender / Raunch feminism" that only vaguely resembles any sense of womens equality.
Arod99k - "Prosecutors dismiss or reduce charges for friends, just ask Slwerner."
Is that supposed to be some sort of jab at me? weak!
And, coming from the guy who said "the women are not the problem", WRT women making false allegations....Really!?!?! You think you're going to be able to insult me?
Now, if you were able to read for comprehension, you'd have spotted that, here, in this story, and in the story about the accused cops, full investigation were done, leading to the conclusion that no rape had occurred, and the accuser being charged.
Now, what is it you think the police should have done differently? You've never been able to answer that question. Can I assume you're going to "duck" it again?
Mr Werner, you point to this case as if it were the status quo when dealing with false rape accusations, when it is not. It is now most law enforcement standard policy to not charge women and girls when they say they have been raped, when they were not raped.
Enabling false rape accusations is just another tactic to break any patriarchy that may get uppity enough to want to come together.
You see with a broken patriarchy there will be no more war protests like there were in Vietnam.
You see with a broken patriarchy Deviant elite can de-regulate the American mortgage business until it collapses, and there is no accountable patriarchy that will demands the heads of the perverts that did it.
Welcome to the broken American patriarchy.
Anonymous - "Mr Werner, you point to this case as if it were the status quo when dealing with false rape accusations, when it is not."
Um, you might try re-reading my post - a little more slowly, for comprehension, this time.
I very clearly stated, "...here, in this story, and in the story about the accused cops..."
Now, how is it that you re-imagined my word as applicable more broadly?
Anonymous - "It is now most law enforcement standard policy to not charge women and girls when they say they have been raped, when they were not raped."
Wow! First you (incorrectly) accuse me of an over-statement; then you follow it up with an even bigger one of your own.
Can you show me this supposed policy?
Now, I do know that false accusers are not always charged. There may be several reasons for this. A bit of white-knighting, trying to protect the little dears from feeling any consequence for their actions not doubt plays some role.
It may also be that some do not feel that the crime is worthy of prosecution (as outrageous as such an opinion is).
But, there are also the matters of the time and expense which would have to be incurred; which, when coupled to the fact that there is often no greater charge than a misdemeanor that could even be charged.
read the story above, S. Here's the part your looking for: "Filing a false police report is a class one misdemeanor punishable by up to twelve months in jail and a $2,500 fine."
Here, they've chosen to go ahead and charge, even though as a first-time offender (my assumption), she would be highly unlikely to be given the maximum possible sentence by a judge.
And, if you'd have actually read a number of the recent stories featured here, you'd find that not only have police been doing a better job of doing their proper investigations and not arresting innocent men as suspects, but, they've also been filing charges more regularly as well.
Has the FRS been having a "creeping" influence on LE. Perhaps. I'd like to think so, since that is what this site has set out to do - raise awareness, not only amongst the public, but in LE as well.
rather than just wallow in the injustice of the past, we should be looking to use those seeming improvements in regards to LE to go on the offensive and more aggressively push our agenda. Making use of the examples of proper police responses will help to show that it can (as, indeed, it must) be done.
I am truly sorry that your case was mishandled. But, rather than assuming that it was, and always will be the norm isn't going to effectively address the broader issue. Not only should we seek redress for past injustice, we should also encourage that they not be repeated in future cases.
This particular thread is supposed to be about a teen who falsely accused someone of rape.
I will stay focused.
It's wrong what this teen did. I believe all false rapes should be a felony and I think she should be tried as an adult.
Someone here mentioned an interesting truth. The truth that 11 year old boys faces can be smeared on the news, but 17 year old girls cannot. I thought we were ekwal.
"But, there are also the matters of the time and expense which would have to be incurred; which, when coupled to the fact that there is often no greater charge than a misdemeanor that could even be charged."
So law enforcement often don't charge false accusers because of the time and expense involved? If more individuals were punished for making false reports to police, this would discourage false accusations. Fewer false claims made to police would save police time and resources wasted dealing with them. So if police were concerned with ensuring the most efficient use of scarce resources, they would have more of an incentive to make an example of those who waste police time.
Police are wasting time and resources dealing with a flood of false allegations because they don't have the time and resources to reduce the problem. This is called 'irony'. It's in the dictionary.
Another day, another feeble excuse for law enforcement. Sigh.
Nick, we live in the age of "Broken patriarchy" where American law enforcement can "manufacture statistics" then cash these statistics in for state and federal dollars to bloat their budgets.
If one was to do a comprehensive audit of many law enforcement jurisdictions you would see that over the years they are doing much less law enforcement for much more taxpayer dollars. They have in fact become just like alot of other bloated American enterprises; it has become an "entrepreneurial bureaucracy" At the expense of the truth and equal protection under the law.
Oct 16, 2010 9:18:00 AM
GTFO
"So law enforcement often don't charge false accusers because of the time and expense involved? If more individuals were punished for making false reports to police, this would discourage false accusations. Fewer false claims made to police would save police time and resources wasted dealing with them. So if police were concerned with ensuring the most efficient use of scarce resources, they would have more of an incentive to make an example of those who waste police time."
You are talking two different pies. Except in maybe some rural counties where the constabulary is part of the same local budget, the cost of prosecution is two other budgets (and technically, two different branches of government).
The issue is that given our current political climate, trying to charge false rape accusers is often a waste of time as far as obtaining a conviction is concerned.
DALLAS (CBS/AP) Police on Wednesday arrested a convicted child molester whose fingerprint was found at the scene of a 1990 sexual assault on a 5-year-old girl - a crime for which a deaf man, Stephen Brodie, was wrongly convicted.
Brodie was exonerated last month after spending 10 years behind bars.
Police and investigators from the Dallas County District Attorney's office took Robert Warterfield into custody as a suspect in a different, 1989, sexual assault on a child.
The DA's office said in a statement that its forensics lab confirmed a DNA match between Warterfield and evidence left at the scene of the unsolved 1989 assault on a 9-year-old Dallas girl.
When Brodie, who is deaf, was arrested and convicted for the 1990 child sex assault, police knew that a fingerprint, found on a window at the crime scene, did not match Brodie or anyone living there. Brodie would later confess to the crime, although he later said he felt intimidated and coerced.
Although there was no physical evidence linking Brodie to the crime, he pleaded guilty after a judge refused to throw out the confession. What neither Brodie nor his defense attorney knew at the time was that the police had hair and fingerprint evidence from the crime scene that didn't match Brodie or anyone else in the house. Michelle Moore, Brodie's current attorney, said prosecutors failed to notify the defense that testing of a fingerprint found on the victim's bedroom window, and a hair found at the scene, did not match Brodie.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8300-504083_162-504083.html?keyword=deaf+inmate#ixzz12cpJ73B8
Denying or downplaying the existance of police misconduct and prosecutorial misconduct is the same as denying or downplaying that false rape allegations exist.
Injustice is RAMPANT in this country. That is why we are a prison nation.
Oct 16, 2010 10:42:00 AM
GTFO!
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