Melinda Denham, 25, told police, and then a grand jury, that her ex-boyfriend, Shannon Hudson, raped her twice in the bedroom of her father's home. That's all authorities needed to jail Mr. Hudson for months. He was charged with burglary and two counts of rape, crimes that could have sent him to prison for 30 years. Finally, Denham wrote a letter to a judge and admitted she lied.
"The truth is he never raped me," she wrote. "It was mutual between both of us. I got mad over him taking my cell phone and not giving it back," she wrote. Denham later said she recanted because she loved Hudson but also admitted she was pregnant by one of two men, neither of them Hudson.
After reading Denham's letter, prosecutors dismissed the charges against Hudson and charged his accuser with perjury and making false alarms.
If this had been an actual rape, there would be countless news stories written about it. Since it was a false rape claim, we are lucky it was covered at all, and from what we can see, only one mainstream publication reported on it. And, of course, the focus in the story is more on hypothetical, possible rape victims who might be discouraged from reporting than on the men who are actually victimized by false rape claims.
The story states the following: "False charges are a nightmare for the men who are targeted, but are also a concern for people advocating for real victims, such as Kendall Fisher, executive director of the advocacy group Women Helping Women. More than 1,300 women were victims of rapes, sexual assaults or other sex crimes last year in Hamilton County, Fisher said. She's afraid false rape allegations could result in a negative backlash for true victims. 'What it may do is impact somebody else's decision to report or not to report,' Fisher said."
I am not certain what Ms. Fisher would recommend be done about this, because the article doesn't tell us. Unfortunately, members of what can aptly be called the sexual grievance industry seem to never offer solutions for false rape claims, aside from insisting they not be charged at all and that they not be reported. The idea is that we can fight one form of criminality (rape) by pretending that another (false rape claims) does not exist. This thinking elevates the victimization of our daughters above that of our sons.
Ms. Fisher also said this: "It's always one of the things people are afraid of: 'I'm not going to be believed.'" Funny, I never hear a sexual assault counselor bemoan the fact that men and boys like Shannon Hudson aren't believed when they deny they were raped. They are jailed solely on the basis of a woman's rape lie. For what other alleged crime do we hand one class of citizens the power to deprive another class of citizens of their liberty based solely on their word?
Charlie Rubenstein, chief criminal Cincinnati prosecutor said that woman making false rape allegations do it to cover for being out late or getting pregnant.
The article notes the following about the prevalence of false rape claims: "Despite the high profile cases, there are few well-documented statistics about false rape claims. The number of false rape cases ranges in studies from 2 percent to 90 percent of reported rapes. That's because the studies don't agree on how to measure false rape allegations or who decides the allegations are false. For example, one study cites a case where police didn't believe a rape allegation because it was made by a heavy woman who police determined likely couldn't have been raped because she wore her underpants too tight."
According to the story: "Denham's case drew particularly heated words from Assistant Prosecutor David Wood in a March 17 hearing before Common Pleas Court Steve Martin. 'One of the things that offended me ... is the defendant's cavalier attitude toward all of this,' Wood told the judge. 'I don't think she's ever put two and two together and realized if no woman ever lied about being raped then the only thing we'd need to convict rapists ... is for her to take the stand and say it. But because of people like her who lie about being raped, every single woman who ever really is raped is raked over the coals.' Many rape cases aren't reported, Wood told Denham, 'because (victims) know the process is so horrible and the reason why is people like you ...'"
Link: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110409/NEWS010702/104100305/Rape-victim-admits-she-lied?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE
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Prosecutor hit the nail on the head: if women didn't lie about rape, there would be no "ordeal" for rape victims. It would be easier to get rapists off the street.
Why do we allow female con artists and corrupt prosecutors to jail innocent men? This is ridiculous.
He never should have been arrested. How the hell could this happen?
Anon at 11:13: we've been sounding the warning bell about this for years, but it continues to happen over and over again. Men and boys should not be jailed where the evidence is disputed, where no investigation has occurred, on the basis of a woman's word alone. Period.
It would be interesting to do a study about what percentage of over-all crime, and what percentage of false rape accusations, come from girls raised in the "American matriarchal underclass"??
As David brooks would refer to in his book "The social animal", the folks that are legislating the law rarely come from the "perpetual matriarchy", and most are "willfully ignorant" of the violence, crime, and chaos that manifests from that matriarchy.
Its almost as if the folks in the patriarchy, are the ones "Breaking the patriarchy" of the perpetual underclass.
The bottom line here folks is it is a perversion of American law enforcement that has fostered and enabled the now "Culture of false rape accusations" to get so rooted into American society.
The question will soon be posed, Are American law enforcement (like many other bloated bureaucracies in America), actually fostering crime, in order to further bloat their budgets??
”More than 1,300 women were victims of rapes, sexual assaults or other sex crimes last year in Hamilton County.”
We desperately need to issue a public service announcement that all women need to move out of Hamilton County, Ohio – it’s a hot-bed of sexual crimes.
By this claimed number, we see that in Hamilton County, less than 3-tenths of one percent of the national population is committing between 1% and 1.6% (1.6% by UFCR, or 1% allowing for the possibility of a 60% non-reporting rate) of all sexual assaults nationally.
This means that in Hamilton county, women are between 4-7 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than in the rest of the entire country. OMG!!!!
Wait!?!?, You don’t suppose Kendall Fisher just pulled that 1300 number out of her a$$, do you?
"The question will soon be posed, Are American law enforcement (like many other bloated bureaucracies in America), actually fostering crime, in order to further bloat their budgets??"
Well, you can ask the question - but the answer would be pretty obvious to anyone with the intelligence level for basic mathematics. The relatively small amount of money available to police agency's via VAWA (67 million to be divided up, via a competitive grant process, between all agency's in all states, and all American Indian tribal Nations, and all US territories) is hardly worth the considerable expense which would be incurred by trying to foster more crimes against women.
But, of course, if one were not particularly intelligent, and predisposed towards a hatred of the police, I can imagine it would be possible for such a person to convince themselves of such a far-fetched notion.
Men Awakened
the real criminal are lobbyist funded politicians and the wimmin whom serve them.
Time to indict these heinous wimmin and those in legal power that have obstructed justice.
I see that a fund-raising money bomb may be in order now, to hire the best anti-misandric lawyers money can buy.
Listen you fascist fucks, men like myself have well seen enoug of this shame circus and are now moving aggressively forward to indict you.
Moreover, the Universities which obviously fully sponsor these hate crimes against men and exhaust public funds to spread propagandist lies of "i-in-4 violated before graduation!" are to soon well expect a class-action lawsuit.
Ahh, Mr werner, here you go again getting defensive and calling me names.
Its quite clear to anyone who is not "Willfully ignorant" that many American law enforcement agencies over the past 25 years have "pork bloated" their budgets on state and federal pork dollars chanting the "protect women mantra" and the taxpayers are getting less law enforcement.
You "pork bloat shit", and it actually slows it down.
It doesn't really take a rocket scientist to connect the dots here.
Mr Werner says
"is hardly worth the considerable expense which would be incurred by trying to foster more crimes against women."
Your'e frothy emotional appeals to spark a protective response in readers by saying "fostering more crimes against women", will work with more simpleton readers.
I said "fostering crimes" in which American law enforcement are only now "fostering crimes" such as false Rape accusations,false domestic violence accusations, and womens violence against others.
All perps of violence should face the justice system; but "perversion of the American justice system", is fostering and enabling womens violence; and unrestrained womens violence is handed down to the womens childrens.
S - "It doesn't really take a rocket scientist to connect the dots here."
Okay, suppose you utilize your theory of profit motive for LE to foster more (false) reports in an attempt to connect these dots:
Since it's enactment in 1994, VAWA has seen increases in the annual amount available to LE at each re-authorization. Also over that same period of time, the national population has been increasing.
But, according to the USDOJ's UCR, the number of reported sexual assaults has been steadily FALLING during that same period of time.
There appears to be a negative correlation between the money available to LE and the number of reports.
So, how are you going to explain that rather "inconvenient truth"? Why does that pesky reality seem to blow your pet theory all to Hell?
I could go on pointing out the many obvious flaws in your theory, but I'd rather not have to. It would be better if, rather than just dumping the same unsubstantiated BS over-and-over, you would do some actual research into the flow of money from Fed to local agencies under VAWA.
Or, perhaps you might just face that the REAL issue in the FRA epidemic lies with those who, over their own, non-LE influenced free wills chose to make FRA so as to suit their own personal interests. The only true "profit"/benefit in FRA's accrue to those who make them (provided that, as in the majority of cases, their lies are not discovered. For everyone else involved there are only ever "costs" (since you never read the lead stories, I'll assume you are unaware that the financial costs to police are often detailed).
S - "Your'e frothy emotional appeals to spark a protective response in readers"
Oh, Please!
I'm trying to combat your continual willful efforts to misdirect the focus away from the the real issues (and towards your anti-LE aim).
Cops neither need nor deserve protection here. They are often flat-out wrong in regards to individual FRA cases. As are prosecutors, judges, politicians, the press, and even the public at-large. Making money (however limited) available to (supposedly) help in curbing violence against women certainly doesn't help. Yet, all these other factors do not actually make any FRA's. That comes down to those (women, typically) who chose to make the FRA's.
Yet, you don't wish to see the focus on those who make FRA's, why they make them, nor even how to dissuade them from making them - No,. your singular focus has become a self-absorb exercise in trying to blame every single instance of an FRA on the police, having sought to profit, fostering that FRA.
Mr Werner, folks have free will, and its up to law enforcement to temper that free will, if it causes undue harm to other citizens.
American law enforcement, just like many other modern American bureaucracies, have taken proactive action to "bloat their budgets", even at the expense of truth, and justice.
Pork = Bloating.
This happens a lot more than the media reports. We knew of a man who met a woman at the doctors office. Video has them talking there, for a half hour at the elevator, making out and petting in his car in the parking garage, then coming into his apartment. they made it, she went home. Problem is she was married and felt guilty, so she told her husband she was raped. Even with all the video, the guy was found guilty and sentenced to 11 years. Portland Oegon. Guy was a solid young man from a good family.
Nowadays, the ONLY safe way for men to interact with Modern Womyn is to NOT interact with Modern Womyn.
Women are seen as victims
Even when a women kills a man the focus is put on how she was mistreated by some man earlier in her life.
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