PALM HARBOR - A 19-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday on charges she falsely claimed her father raped her, to win a larger percentage of a sum associated with legal action they were involved in.
Brittany Joy Davis, whose permanent address is in Lake Worth, was charged with extortion. She was being held at the Pinellas County Jail on $10,000 bail.
Davis and her father, who lives in Pinellas County, were involved in a lawsuit on the state's east coast, and Davis believed she should get a larger percentage of the award associated with the legal action, Pinellas sheriff's Sgt. Tom Nestor said.
Details of the lawsuit and the amount in dispute were not available.
About 7 p.m. Wednesday, Davis called authorities and claimed her father had raped her at his home in Pinellas County, according to an arrest affidavit.
Within 90 minutes, however, she was recanting, according to the affidavit.
The plan was for her to claim her father raped her, and then, following his arrest, approach him about a larger portion of the monetary award, Nestor said. Once he agreed to her terms, the plan was for her to drop the rape allegation, Nestor said.
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The only wrong thing what this man has done is, giving birth to that woman.
"The plan was for her to claim her father raped her, and then, following his arrest, approach him about a larger portion of the monetary award, Nestor said. Once he agreed to her terms, the plan was for her to drop the rape allegation"
The “profit motive” seems to be an increasingly common motivation behind FRA’s.
The article gives little in the way of useful detail, but it appears that either the women simply got “cold feet”, or (and I believe more likely) the police were noticeably skeptical of her claim – and scared her off of it.
[note – since another poster will no doubt be along shortly to posit some nonsense about the “first perversion” of police leading to all FRA’s, I’ll go ahead an note that there is (again, as usual) no evidence that police did anything to encourage in the creation of this FRA, nor did they provide any assistance to the false accuser in furtherance of the false claim. They will also NOT be reporting this incident as a data point to the UCR, and any associated coast will be born entirely by that PD]
In this case, as in so many of late, the police acted correctly. It does not appear that they rushed off to arrest the innocent man, they did not release his name to the press (for trashing), and they appear to have maintained a healthy skepticism while dutifully taking her report (as they are required to do).
The considerable drop-off in stories in which police have acted over-zealously, without proper investigation and consideration of available facts, and upon nothing more than the word of a woman making an allegation, seems to be a sign that the tide is turning, and more and more police agencies are waking up to the uncomfortable reality of FRA’s (at even the slightest of provocations).
I’d like to think that the work of the False rape Society has played no small part in educating both police and public alike to the prevalence and great injustices associated with woman (and even some men) making false allegations of rape for their own selfish and self-serving ends. In almost every instance where new agencies allow for comments on stories related to FRA’s it has been heartening to see the over-whelming agreement with the stand of the FRS and with the sentiments often expressed here.
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"
--- Shakespeare
"Cry rape and let slip the witches of misandry"
--- Atlas
This plan only works when you say that Kobe Bryant raped you.
I've come to the same informal conclusion SLwerner and hope that it is reality. The problem is that we only read about the cases that make some sort of local newspaper. I don't know what the selection bias could be, but it could turn out that this smaller subset of articles does not accurately reflect the larger set of how police handle accusations.
Freedom - ” but it could turn out that this smaller subset of articles does not accurately reflect the larger set of how police handle accusations.”
I agree that it is difficult, even risky, to try to extrapolate too much out of a relative handful of cases. That’s why I point to the apparent trend rather than declare definite progress.
I think that what I notice more than an increase in the number of cases wherein police do it more-or-less correctly, is that there seem to be fewer instance of police going completely over-board right away, rushing to arrest (often sending SWAT teams to apprehend alleged date-rapists who were completely cooperative), and then deciding to investigate (if the dazed and confused victim didn’t say something that could be twisted into having been a confession).
It wasn’t but a couple of years ago when that approach seemed to be the norm for cases that later turned out to be FRA’s, and often included the victim having to endure a lengthy incarceration while his name, reputation, career, etc. were destroyed in the public forum.
It actually been quite a welcome change to not read as many of those sorts of stories (they always did such a number on my blood pressure).
Of course, it would be extremely premature to believe that all police agencies, all across the nation, and even internationally had suddenly “seen the light” and are adopting a more measured and balanced approach to rape claims. We will almost certainly still see some ridiculously over-zealous reactions, innocent men arrested, and even some terrible injustices continue to occur.
But, when police can get the SGI (organization like RAINN) to whine about how police aren’t automatically believing all women, in all instances, that LE isn’t making enough arrests, taking on enough prosecutions, nor getting enough convictions and incarcerations to satisfy their collective blood-lust; I’d definitely call it PROGRESS.
The story above is notable in this way in that, although a suspect was named, the police seemed not to have sprung into full tactical mode, and dispatched a SWAT team to take down the women’s father. Instead, they seem to have intimidated her into recanting and confessing (even giving up her financial motive).
And, it’s also notable that when we get press accounts which actually bother to detail motives, we are given a further glimpse into just how willing some women are to destroy men – even family members – when money (or their reputation, etc.) is on the line.
A model for handling it right: the Roethlisberger case in Georgia.
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