A follow-up to this story:
A Wick woman who made a false rape claim against her boyfriend in an act of revenge was jailed for six months yesterday.
Sheriff Andrew Berry told Cheryl Fleming that she had caused a huge waste of police resources.
Fleming made the bogus claim as her way of getting back at David Moody after they argued, Wick Sheriff Court heard yesterday.
The 39-year-old went to police after she and Mr Moody had consensual sex at his home at Thurso on December 6.
During the subsequent investigation, Mr Moody was detained for questioning.
Fleming, of 30 Huddart Street, Wick, had previously admitted making the statement which wasted police time and rendered Mr Moody subject to suspicion and false accusation of rape.
Her case had been continued until yesterday for reports.
The couple, who were described as having been in a long, on-off relationship, had sex after a drinking session.
After an argument, she left and went to a nearby food takeaway from where she phoned police. After discrepancies in her allegation emerged, she retracted her statement several days after making it.
Defence solicitor Neil Wilson said: “She says she made the false statement as a way of getting back at him.
“Three days later, she turned up at the police station with a view to putting the wrong right.”
Mr Wilson said Fleming’s offending is largely alcohol-related.
Sheriff Andrew Berry said she had pleaded guilty to a very serious matter.
The sheriff said: “This would have been a huge waste of police manpower.”
The sheriff noted that Fleming has a similar previous conviction and has a history of failing to comply with community-based orders.
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"Defence solicitor Neil Wilson said: “She says she made the false statement as a way of getting back at him.
“Three days later, she turned up at the police station with a view to putting the wrong right.”
Mr Wilson said Fleming’s offending is largely alcohol-related."
So, we have an alcohol-fueled revenge plot, along with a highly dubious claim of "wishing to set things strait" (only after being questioned about the discrepancies that turned up during the multi-day investigation). Are these supposed to be "mitigating" factors?
I wonder how long it will be before we see another diatribe from the W.A.R. pigs about the grave injustice of punishing women for committing crimes?
VAWA Reform -- Call to Action
Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2011-02-19 02:37.
This coming week, Congress will be out of session. Senators and Representatives will be back in their homes district, holding meetings with constituents.
The main topic of discussion will be the federal budget. Earlier this week, President Obama proposed a budget that would produce a $1.1 trillion deficit for 2012. The Obama budget proposal includes over $777 million for VAWA and other domestic violence programs.
It is critical that we take action TODAY and contact your lawmaker’s local office and request to set up a meeting this coming week. I am attaching a hand-out that you can use – or use your own handout. If we implement the recommendations spelled out on the flyer, we will be able to help more true victims, remove dangerous mandatory arrest policies, remove false allegations, and save taxpayer money!
To get your lawmakers’ phone number, just do a Google search under the person’s name, or look in the phone book.
Folks, this is the real deal. Either we act now, or we wait until 2016 when VAWA comes up for reauthorization.
The SAVE Team.
http://news.mensactivism.org/node/16340
"According to the 3rd Quarter Report of The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project, police officers were accused of sexual assault at a rate of 79 per 100,000 law enforcement personal. That is over two times the rate in the general public (28.7 per 100,000)"
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=34433
Thanks to piglipstick blog for the attention.
Apologies for being off topic.
The war on men and boys, is not targeting all men and boys. The American gender-Raunch Empowerment movement of the last 20 years steps on the heads of innocent (Non gender-Raunch) men and boys, in order to "Empower the gender-raunch community as a whole".
The "American gender-Raunch community" has taken the war on (non gender-Raunch men and boys) to a whole new level.
A quick plug for the last by blogger Alcuin:
Terms of Feminist Abuse - Misogyny and Rape
Another light, sweet sentence for a false rape accuser. Totally inadequate.
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