Police have called off the hunt for an alleged Palmerston North rapist, who they thought had offended against a teenage girl in The Square, believing a false complaint had been laid.
They have referred a 16-year-old girl – who can't be named for legal reasons – to Youth Aid for making a false complaint after she allegedly told police she had been sexually assaulted in the early hours of September 5.
Police say she laid the complaint at Palmerston North police station at 5.35am, leading police on a manhunt which involved scouring the city's CCTV footage and security camera tapes from nearby businesses.
In a bid to identify the man, officers were considering releasing some of the footage or getting an identikit sketch drawn up.
But Palmerston North detective Jonny Oram said investigations were now complete and a 16-year-old had been referred to youth aid for allegedly making a false complaint.
Mr Oram said that false accusations of sexual assaults were unfortunate because they had the potential to deter genuine victims from coming forward for fear of not being believed.
"We hope that the thorough investigation that has been carried out in this case clearly demonstrates that we take all sexual assault cases very seriously, and we continue to encourage genuine victims to seek our help."
Manawatu Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre manager Ann Kent said it was "disappointing" when false claims were made.
Rape and sexual abuse were still among the most undereported crimes – with only an estimated 9 per cent being reported – and women should not be dissuaded from telling the truth.
"I would never want to see any woman deterred from coming forward ... support is always available for victims of sexual abuse," Ms Kent said.
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Rape and sexual abuse were still among the most undereported crimes – with only an estimated 9 per cent being reported – and women should not be dissuaded from telling the truth.
This statement is faulty and inflamatory.
Nov 18, 2010 9:00:00 AM
I agree. It would mean there there is more than eleven times as much rape than is being reported, as the way most people would read that.
However, when I read that (taken at face value because I also know there is no evidence to support such a claim), it leads me to suspect that 90% of the reports they do receive are false.
Why not prosecute False Accusers so that the credibility of real victims will be increased?
"leading police on a manhunt which involved scouring the city's CCTV footage and security camera tapes from nearby businesses."
Now, things like this are a hopeful. As with the recent case of the, girl who falsely claimed to have been raped at school, the investigation started with reviewing video surveillance. the story doesn't state it outright, but it sure seems as though those videos proved that nothing happen where she claimed it had (we sure are seeing a lot of this happening anymore), and they took the correct step of declaring the allegation to be false.
It seem the police are starting to "get it" about the way women and girls frequently lie about having been raped.
But, then, there's this steaming pile dumped right behind the good news, which stinks up the whole rest of the story: "Rape and sexual abuse were still among the most undereported crimes – with only an estimated 9 per cent being reported".
Of course, Lie-master Ann Kent provides no reference for that wild claim (do they ever? All I ever hear are vague references to some "study".)
So, just a quick question about that: "If women lie so frequently to police about having been raped, what makes anyone willing to believe that they don't lie about even more often when trying to manipulate friends, husbands/boyfriends, Rape Crisis Center personnel who hand out the victim compensation cash, or even man-hating gender-feminist SGI researchers. My bet that they would be far more prone to lie to people not in LE than they would be to lie to LE - and they do that quite a bit (as we who aren't afraid to examine the ample evidence know all too well). If they lie to police some 40% of the time, why wouldn't it be fair to assume that they lie to others even more - say, 80% of the time. Perhaps a better estimation would be that of that supposed 90% of unreported rapes, 80% of those aren't real - leaving the true rate of unreported real rapes at ~18%.
Hey, if these SGI fools can make sh*t up, why can't I?
And, finally, the Manawatu Standard doesn't allow comments - leaving the lie to stand unchallenged.
Nov 18, 2010 12:21:00 PM
That is true. While lying to the police about rape rarely has any consequences, lying on an anonymous survey has none at all.
Putting aside that these surveys use a ridiculously exaggerated definition of rape, that wouldn't be counted as a crime even if it were reported, why can't these people see the obvious flaw in using a self-reporting to measure fundamentally dishonest behavior? Failing to report a violent felony is far from truthful. It would be like basing crime statistics on what crimes criminals said they committed.
Of course, these surveys do not simply ask people if that had been raped. Feminists tried that and were disappointed with the results. And even when they do, such as the infamous Koss survey, they ignore the negative answers in their tally. Apparently feminists want to believe that women never lie about rape, except when they say they haven't been raped. Then they "blame the victim" for not understanding what supposedly must have happened to them.
"We hope that the thorough investigation that has been carried out in this case clearly demonstrates that we take all sexual assault cases very seriously,.."
At this point feminists were probaly going;
" NA NA NA NA I CAN'T HEAR YOU."
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