A 30-year-old Gaffney, S.C., woman told Gastonia Police on Sunday three men raped her, but the story was false, according to an arrest warrant.
The woman was served with an arrest warrant on Tuesday for making a false report to a police station. She was released from custody without having to post bond.
Police determined her story did not add up and she later confessed that it was untrue, according to a Gastonia Police report.
No one else was questioned in the case.
Link:
http://www.gastongazette.com/news/woman-51179-false-police.html
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Community service for girl who made false rape claim
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/10/community_service_for_girl_who.php
From the article referenced by the Anonymous poster above:
"A 17-year-old girl has been given a 60 hour suspended community service sentence for falsely claiming she had been drugged, raped and made pregnant by an ex boyfriend last year.
The boy spent four days in custody after the girl made the accusations. It was not until April 2010 that the girl finally admitted she had made up the story.
The public prosecution department had called for a one month suspended jail term."
I don't know what the laws are in the Netherlands, but it seems as though they follow the ways things work in the US. The prosecutors asked for a months jail time (fairly light, but jail time never-the-less), but the judge chose community service instead.
It does seem a lot like what we tend to see State-side. Even when prosecutors seek more meaningful penalties, they are thwarted by judges (who often are simply following the sentencing guidelines imposed on them).
I've made the point (repeatedly) that having only misdemeanors available to them, and the high probability that any punishment meted out will be light, it seems to be for prosecutors a waste of time and precious resources to pursue such cases.
And, while this case involved a juvenile, the same is often seen in case of adult women making FRA's. the real upshot of this, and the many like it, is to highlight the need for felony-level charges that can be brought (Am I soundly like a broken record, or what?)
And, turning the to main story here...
"Police determined her story did not add up and she later confessed that it was untrue, according to a Gastonia Police report.
No one else was questioned in the case."
I guess that, once again, I'm the only one who will bother to say so, but...
Kudos tot he cops on a job well done. This is what we'd like to see more of. Investigations, skepticism, turning up the heat on the accusers (where warranted), and getting confessions out of them.
No shuffling this one off into the "unknown/unfounded" category - thanks to that confession, this one goes straight into the "known false" column. And, if some researcher ever finds the "stones" to defy the SGI and drill down into the numbers, having these cases be classified as clearly falsified, will end up providing a much more accurate picture of what's been going on.
If anyone is needing a shot of encouragement that people are starting to catch-on to the very message the FRS has been providing, just go to that linked article and read through the comments.
At the risk of seeming sexist here, I especially enjoy the comments by other women who have no sympathy for their "sisters" who make these lies.
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