Kayla Cowdrey, 20, was issued a citation to appear Dec. 13 in Vermont Superior Court in St. Johnsbury to answer the charge of false information to a law-enforcement officer, Vermont State Police Detective Ben Katz said in a statement.
Investigators responded Wednesday evening to the Back Center Road apartment for a reported burglary and a complaint of an aggravated sexual assault. The woman provided a complete description of the purported attacker, and police turned to the media with a composite sketch in an effort to catch the suspect.
"During the course of the investigation, numerous inconsistencies were discovered," Katz said in a news release.
Monday, police said, Cowdrey admitted the complaint wasn’t true.Link:
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20101122/NEWS07/101122022/Lyndon-woman-accused-of-falsifying-sex-assault-report
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The link doesn't work.
Just because the complaint wasn't true didn't mean it didn't happen.
Rape culture!
Rape Culture!
Cel,
Looks like they took the story down. Did a search on thier site, and nothing.
Anon,
I love sarcasm.
"To do this, the SVD will have to add more investigators. Mr. Browne said the number of new detectives moved into the sex-crimes unit will number in the dozens.
The committee also recommended increasing cooperation with prosecutors, reorganizing the staffing of the SVD, enhancing officer training for all SVD investigators and NYPD officers and having Mr. Kelly meet regularly with victims' advocates groups for feedback on the department's efforts....
In 2009, rape complaints in the city dipped to a modern-day low of 1,206. This year the city is on target for a 16% increase, to about 1,400 reported rapes. It would be the first increase in rapes since Mr. Kelly became police commissioner, for the second time, in 2002."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703581204576033873467370478.html
looks like Bloggers eating my posts again - even when I break them up.
If they don't eventually show back up, I'll try reposting again later.
” "During the course of the investigation, numerous inconsistencies were discovered," Katz said in a news release.
Monday, police said, Cowdrey admitted the complaint wasn’t true.”
Sadly, these stories are now so common that many of us seem to have become disinterested in them. We really can’t even find anything to take issue with in the way the cases was handled nor in how it was reported (well, I can still gripe about the paucity of information given in the story, such as the motivation for the FRA – my little public education campaign;) )
But, I would remind my fellow travelers that the mere fact that these stories are now so “mundane” is, in retrospect extremely significant.
One would need only research news archives back 4 or 5 years ago to find that there were seldom news accounts of rape claims that had turned out to be false.
And just a couple of years ago when Pierce and Steven first started this blog, most stories about the discovery of FRA’s included the disquieting (and, sometimes, blood-boiling) details of some innocent man’s arrest and public ordeal.
Now, the typical story is a simple: woman makes claim, police investigate, police find no evidence or contraindications, police turn the investigation back o n the woman, faced with the evidence against her, woman confess to FRA. And, as with the story above, it’s becoming increasingly common for there to have been no arrest made prior to the FRA be uncovered.
Yes, as far as news goes, these stories are hardly “sensational”, and (judging by the relative lack of comments here on the FRS, are just plain boring. Yet, they represent absolutely fantastic news. The world seems to be waking up to the realities of the FRA issue. Police are starting to do their jobs correctly more often, the press has been reporting on FRA’s and is starting to publish the names of the perpetrators more often (and even NOT publishing the real victims names). Comments on news sites are running over-whelmingly in-line with what has been “preached” here for two years. Word seems to be getting around. Hell, in the UK they’re even putting the liars in jail. I’m seeing reason to celebrate as 2010 comes to a close.
But, yes, the positive changes are making for less “interesting” news items.
Well, at least someone has linked that item from the WSJ.
”The committee, called the Sex Crimes Working Group, was convened in April after sex-crime victim advocate groups and rape counselors said they believed many rape and sexual-assault complaints were being classified as lesser crimes or reports weren't being taken at all.”
“She said rape-crisis programs were concerned that anecdotal evidence they collected suggested some sexual-assault reports weren't being taken, especially by patrol officers.”
Standard “Police don’t listen” and “Police don’t do enough” whining from the SGI [as opposed to someone else’s conspiracy theory about how the police are secretly in league with the SGI to perpetrate FRA’s and railroad innocent men], and demands for them to reform.
Yet, out of 1922 cases, a mere 19 (< 1%) might have been misclassified. Gee! that’s even less than 2% that even they allow are just plain false. I’m not seeing any signs of a crisis here (with regard to misclassifications of sex-assaults to lesser crimes).
Still they want to see that ; in other words, learn to take his directions from the SGI.
”In 2009, rape complaints [read: sexual assaults of any kind, per the standards for the UCR] in the city dipped to a modern-day low of 1,206.”
Are we talkin’ all of NYC here? 1206 divided by 10 million (+) is about one one-hundredth of one percent. How does that even justify having a special unit dedicated to sexual-assaults?
Maybe that’s something we can debate and discuss here (since stories of FRA’s are getting dull)?
"How does that even justify having a special unit dedicated to sexual-assaults?"
Even though it's a small percentage, it's still 1200 cases.
Anonymous - "Even though it's a small percentage, it's still 1200 cases."
Perhaps I was remiss in not including the [/snark] pseudo-tag with that comment.
It's not that I'm meaning to be dismissive of real crimes; I'm just "flipping" the standard feminist pseudo-logic that "since false rapes are only 2%, there's no need to address the issue", and suggesting that the same "logic" should be applied.
Sorry if I failed to make that clear.
But, you do, of course, understand that the reason that the SGI is so adamant about their beloved "2%" lie, and why they are as equally adamant about discrediting studies like those by Kanin (that show the real number to be much higher) is all about maintaining their argument that false-rapes do not need to be addressed because they are so rare.
They would (reasonably) argue that 1200 sexual assaults merits special consideration. They would not however, wish to at the same time explain why 1200 false-rape reports should not be given equal consideration.
"They would (reasonably) argue that 1200 sexual assaults merits special consideration. They would not however, wish to at the same time explain why 1200 false-rape reports should not be given equal consideration."
True, although trying to force beat cops to hand over unfounded claims (the ones that aren't counted by the UCR) to special units, in order to increase the number of reports, is also going to put those cases in the hands of investigators who can prove them false.
Think of the Duke lacrosse case. The cop who found her intoxicated in the parking lot was completely incredulous (then later those tapes mysteriously vanished). Had they gone with his initial judgement, that her story was complete bullshit, and simply ignored her, that entire mess could have been avoided. It also would have been another of the tens of thousands of false rape claims that no one ever hears about.
According to one story, that may or may not be true, the officers who originally responded to Heidi Jones did not want to take her statement.
Yet, I don't know where feminists get the ludicrous idea that patrolmen would want to ignore rapes that actually occurred. Where are all the examples of that happening?
Unfortunately, it seems the press in Baltimore and New York City have such a liberal bias that all of these new cases that will be proven false instead of being quietly dismissed won't be reported.
"Yes, as far as news goes, these stories are hardly “sensational”, and (judging by the relative lack of comments here on the FRS, are just plain boring."
Women being caught in rape lies is pretty much End Of Story.
Not much more can be said other than "Oh, how awful" time after time.
How often do stories of false accusations leading to years of imprisonment make it here to FRS?
Not that many.
Cause not that many exist? Such vigilant police work is paying off and innocent men do not get convicted?
Hasn't it been stated here that innocent men convicted of this crime take attention and sympathy away from those who slipped the noose?
When we hear of DNA exonerations after decades of prison, or rare as hen's teeth false accusers who recanted it does not lead one to believe there might be untold numbers of innocent men in prison or on sex offender registries that were unable to prove their innocence?
Sorry, SLW. I don't share your optimism.
Anonymous - "Sorry, SLW. I don't share your optimism."
I'm sorry for that as well.
But, again, I would point out to you that it's been a some time since the FRS has featured a story about a falsely accused man being summarily arrested, subjected to onerous interrogation and intimate examination, had his name ruined publicly by the media, and had the police focusing their entire effort on building a case against him.
Such accounts were the norm during the first two years of the FRS.
I'm sure that it's still happening. But, what seems to be emerging is a trend in which Police are now doing their jobs and investigating first, and are often uncovering the FRA rather quickly (I can recall stories in which men endured months and even years waiting to be "cleared").
I'm certainly not suggesting that there are no longer such issues, only that they seem to be fewer and fewer.
I suppose I'm more the "glass half full" sort of guy.
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