A woman who told police she had been raped by two men later admitted she was a prostitute who had been selling herself for money to buy food, and was angry when the men failed to pay her, according to court records.
Police said Desiree Ann Freeman, 22, of 313 E. Frankford St. will be mailed a summons for filing a false police report.
According to court records:
Around 1:30 p.m. Oct. 17, police were called for a report of a woman who said she had been raped.
Freeman told police that shortly before 8 p.m. Oct. 16, she was walking in the 800 block of E. Fourth Street when she encountered three men on the sidewalk.
Two of the men attacked her dragged her into a nearby alley and sexually assaulted and raped her, Freeman told police. She said she was unsure what happened to the third man.
Freeman said a relative and friend were nearby and she yelled for them to help her and the men ran away.
On Oct. 19, police interviewed Freeman again about the attack and said her story changed. She told police she had no money for anything to eat so she decided to sell herself for sex.
Freeman told police she agreed to perform a sex act on the men in the alley, but the men forced her to have sex.
Police also interviewed Freeman's friend and relative, who both told investigators it appeared Freeman went with the men voluntarily into the alley.
On Oct. 29, Freeman was again interviewed by police. She said she had been selling herself for about a year to make money to buy food. She admitted she agreed to have sex with the men and was angry when they failed to pay her.
Police said they could not positively identify the men involved.
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”police interviewed Freeman again about the attack and said her story changed.
Freeman was again interviewed by police. She said she had been selling herself for about a year to make money to buy food. She admitted she agreed to have sex with the men and was angry when they failed to pay her.
Police said they could not positively identify the men involved.”
Stories like this one tend to get short-shrift her on FRS. But, they are, in there own way, very telling of what seems to be a fundamental change in the way LE is handling such allegations.
When the FRS first started covering FRA accounts, it was typical that the response to a woman claiming to have been abducted and raped would have been to launch an all-out man-hunt, and publish warnings to the public. And, often, they’d arrest innocent men who just happened to match the description, or who were unfortunate enough to have been near the alleged scene of the crime.
But, more and more, we’re seeing where these allegations of stranger rape are being met with skepticism, no man-hunts, no police renderings of alleged attackers released as a public warning or information trolling, but rather the “reinterviewing” of the woman making the allegation, which, most likely includes asking increasingly tougher and more probing questions due to a lack of discoverable corroborating evidence.
Now longer do these “Stranger FRA’s” (SFRA’s) simply hang in limbo as “Unsolved” cases, but the perp id badgered into admitting that she made it up. And, unlike a few short years ago, the press is reporting that allegations of rape are being proven to be false.
While this may not strike many here as a reason to celebrate, I would contend that this is a positive trend that we ought to be encouraging more LE agency’s to follow.
Now, if we could get some meaningful felony-level charges which could be brought against those making FRA’s. It is good that LE is catching on to the prevalence of FRA’s, but a realistic means of punishing offenders is still needed to create a deterrent. Despite improvements, too many FRA’s still lead to serious and irreparable harms to innocent men.
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