Southaven finds no evidence of assault
Thursday, was the first time Southaven resident Ronnie Dowty heard the allegation that a woman had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted in his Plum Point subdivision."My daughter said she heard something about it today, but other than that I haven't heard a thing about it," said Dowty.
Friday, the Southaven Police Department issued a statement saying a report filed on the alleged kidnapping and sexual assault was false.
Police said they received the kidnapping/sexual assault report on Aug. 14 by a woman saying she was assaulted in the subdivision off of Elmore Road.
"After receiving such report, the Southaven Police Department began an immediate investigation into these allegations," the report read. "After conducting a thorough investigation, the Southaven Police Department found no evidence to substantiate a kidnapping or sexual or physical assault. As a result, the Southaven Police Department has closed this case based upon a false report having been filed."
They said they have received several calls from residents in the subdivision daily about the alleged assault.
"The purpose of the press release is to dispel allegations and alleviate fears of a reported kidnapping and sexual assault in Plum Point," the statement issued Friday read.
Dowty, who has lived in the neighborhood for four years, said the community that has streets with names like Lime Tree Cove and Peach Trail Drive, is one of the safest areas he has lived in.
"I love it here and have no plans to move," he said.
[FRS COMMENT] - If all of this was due to a false report, shouldn't the case still be open due to charges being filed against the individual who filed the false report?
Link: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/sep/11/police-kidnap-report-false/
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The authorities don't want to discourage victims from coming forward. Even if it includes false accusers of crimes that never happened. No one is prosecuted for perjury, or punished for their vicious false rape claims. What troubles me even more is that the authorities often get convictions when there is contradictory evidence of innocence. Law enforcement needs to be held accountable, not just given more funding year after year.
Bakersfield / Kern County, CA 1983
Brian Kniffen, now 20 years of age, testified on JUL-25 how he was coerced and badgered at the age of six by social workers and district attorneys. Interviewed after the closed hearing, he said "I believed my mother's words when she said to do what these people said. And I believed them...when they promised I could go home if I just said it all had happened. So I did. ...And I never did go home.". 4 Commenting on district attorney Andrew Gindes, he said "He would slam books down, yell when we wouldn't cooperated. He was demanding and scared us and wouldn't take no for an answer...
39 persons had been convicted of sexual child abuse. Kathleen "Cookie" Ridolfi, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and executive director of the Northern California Innocence Project, said: "These witnesses were forced to tell lies that robbed a man of 20 years of his life and robbed them of their innocence. The children grew up knowing an innocent man was sent to prison because of something they did. John Stoll is a victim but so are the boys and their families. The biggest crime of it all is the District Attorney's continued refusal to assume responsibility for any of it. Without accountability, we won't learn from the mistakes, we'll just keep making them."
To this day Prosecutorial and police Misconduct goes unpunished. Please don't defend the authorities Slwerner, they are not innocent. They are blood guilty.
You're right, this investigation should remain OPEN. How could a woman have possibly raped in a neighborhood with streets like "Lime Tree Cove" and "Peach Trail Drive".
Arod99k - "To this day Prosecutorial and police Misconduct goes unpunished. Please don't defend the authorities Slwerner, they are not innocent. They are blood guilty."
While there are definitely some "bad apples", who end up doing some real harm, they are the rare exception. Consider how many thousands of DA's there are, yet only a handful of the cases like you focus in on. If your extrapolation that these cases represented the norm, then there be thousands of such cases.
And, really, do you even read the stories posted here? Let me point out the salient point from the one above:
"After receiving such report, the Southaven Police Department began an immediate investigation into these allegations," the report read. "After conducting a thorough investigation, the Southaven Police Department found no evidence to substantiate a kidnapping or sexual or physical assault. As a result, the Southaven Police Department has closed this case based upon a false report having been filed."
So, can you point out police misconduct in this account for me - I seem to be missing it?
In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct is a procedural defense; via which, a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for actions which may have broken the law, because the prosecution acted in an "inappropriate" or "unfair" manner. Such arguments may involve allegations that the prosecution withheld evidence or knowingly permitted false testimony. This is similar to selective prosecution.
Prosecutors are protected from civil liability even when they knowingly and maliciously break the law in order to secure convictions, and the doctrine of harmless error is used by appellate courts to uphold convictions despite such illegal tactics, thus giving prosecutors few incentives to comply with the law.
Prosecutors are arguably the most powerful figures in the American criminal justice system. Prosecutors decide which charges to bring, what plea bargain to offer, and what sentence to request. Their decisions have far-reaching consequences on defendants, victims, their respective families, and the general public. Given the special duties of prosecutors, and the broad power they exercise in the criminal justice system, it is critical that prosecutors discharge their duties responsibly and ethically.
Recent studies reveal that prosecutorial misconduct is a systemic reality within the criminal justice system. In 2003, a study conducted by the Center for Public Integrity found that prosecutorial misconduct was a factor in dismissed charges, reversed convictions, or reduced sentences in at least, 2,012 cases since 1970. In 28 of those cases, involving 32 separate defendants, prosecutorial misconduct led to the wrongful conviction of innocent individuals. In 1999, a national study conducted by the Chicago Tribune found that between 1963 and 1999, the courts dismissed homicide convictions in 381 cases because prosecutors suppressed exculpatory evidence or presented false testimony.
Despite the prevalence of prosecutorial misconduct all over the country, states have consistently failed to investigate or sanction prosecutors who commit acts of misconduct in order to secure convictions. This lack of accountability has led to a widespread abuse of prosecutorial power, and a flawed and inaccurate criminal justice system.
Arod99k - "prosecutorial misconduct was a factor in dismissed charges, reversed convictions, or reduced sentences in at least, 2,012 cases since 1970. In 28 of those cases, involving 32 separate defendants, prosecutorial misconduct led to the wrongful conviction of innocent individuals. In 1999, a national study conducted by the Chicago Tribune found that between 1963 and 1999, the courts dismissed homicide convictions in 381 cases because prosecutors suppressed exculpatory evidence or presented false testimony."
That's right! It really is that rare. All those years, millions of cases, and while 2,012 cases in 40 years seems like a large number, when looked at in light of the overall numbers, it's really quite rare.
Good point, Arod.
Gove scraps the 'no touching' rule for teachers in bid to let them assert more authority
In control: Michael Grove has signaled that he intends to scrap 'no touching' rules for teachers that he insists make teachers reticent about asserting their authority
Michael Gove also signalled the coalition was pushing ahead with controversial plans to give teachers a right to anonymity when faced by allegations from pupils.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1317055/Michael-Gove-scraps-touching-rule-teachers-bid-let-teachers-assert-authority.html
Looks like anonymity, in some form, is back on the cards. I wonder how feminists shall respond this time, since most teachers are women.
Now that most teachers are women, teachers will start to be protected.
Exactly, Anon - feminists will twist themselves around in circles to justify why men accused of rape should not be allowed anonymity, but teachers accused of rape should be. We all know the real reason why they would do this - but being earnest, they will contort themselves into impossible and wonderful shapes to give an alternative explanation.
http://thefire.org/article/12301.html
Hamilton Requires First-Year Men to Attend Presentation on Campus ‘Rape Culture’; Female Applicants Not Forewarned of Dangers of Attending Hamilton
Tonight at 7 p.m., first-year men at Hamilton College will be attending a mandatory presentation of "She Fears You," a program at which they will be pressed to acknowledge their personal complicity in a "rape culture" on Hamilton's campus and to change their "rape-supportive" beliefs and attitudes.
What happened next:
http://thefire.org/torch/#12324
Amidst heated debate, Keith Edwards’ “She Fears You” presentation went forward Monday evening at Hamilton College. FIRE argued that this event, which claims to be a “cognitive and emotional intervention” aiming to teach that certain views about masculinity will be “no longer acceptable in any way,” should not have been mandatory for freshman males. Two senior faculty members also expressed their dismay over the mandatory nature of the program. One of them, in an e-mail to Dean of Students Nancy Thompson, argued:
‘Especially in light of our proclaimed devotion to the “open curriculum,” I see no reason why this one event with embedded political content about “rape culture” and “social justice” should be required of all first year men during the academic year.’
Hunter Brown of Hamilton College Alumni for Governance Reform went so far as to say that alumni should consider withdrawing financial report from the school.
Students also expressed their displeasure at the required event. According to an article in The Spectator, Hamilton’s student newspaper, several students were upset that the women’s mandatory program focused on “support and acceptance” while the men’s program focused on “how to improve themselves.” The program indeed was upsetting to many students
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less than two hours before the lecture, Thompson sent out a reminder e-mail, making it clear that first-year men were required to attend. In case there was any question, the word “required” was in large, red type, underlined and italicized. The male freshmen were instructed to “be sure” to bring their Hill Cards (Hamilton’s college ID card), a rule that undoubtedly was designed to make the students think that their IDs would be swiped to enforce their attendance, just as for other orientation events.
According to a Hamilton freshman, however, word quickly circulated that IDs had not been swiped at the women’s event earlier, and it soon became evident that no one was swiping IDs at “She Fears You,” either. At that point, the student reported to FIRE, there was a “mass exodus” from the event.
Win!
I am sure that some feminist somewhere is scratching her head trying to eke out a justification for why innocent men leaving an event which blames them and piles guilt on them for rape "is rape."
http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/12319.html
"However, sexual assault education for college students is required by New York State law."
Does that same law also require that "education" be based entirely on left-wing ideological horseshit?
"Does that same law also require that "education" be based entirely on left-wing ideological horseshit?"
Anon,
Yes.
Hamilton Requires First-Year Men to Attend Presentation on Campus ‘Rape Culture’; Female Applicants Not Forewarned of Dangers of Attending Hamilton
Wake up people. This "presentation" is nothing more than a front for re-engineering society. It isn't about rape at all, it's an attack on heterosexuality and heterosexual
males. Heterosexuality is patriarchy and is oppresive to womenkind. It is a social contruct, it is not natural. It is violence against women. I went to college once, the women's center lied to the student body when they said that women don't ever lie about rape because they are women.
Oct 3, 2010 12:34:00 PM
Then that's some legislation!
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