BREAKING NEWS: HEARING POSTPONED UNTIL JUNE 15: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/09/2209263/bahamian-authorities-reschedule.html
We are following the case of Garrett Wittels, a star collegiate baseball player accused of rape in the Bahamas. We've reported on it here: http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2011/01/lessons-of-rape-charges-lodged-against.html
And today there is new information: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/09/2207863/surveillance-video-could-be-key.html that casts more than a little doubt on the rape claim.
Stay tuned.
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It's not even casting doubt; it's pretty clear that this is a false accusation. There is not enough evidence to prove this is an FRA beyond a reasonable doubt, but the evidence tips towards an FRA, not a sexual assault.
I wonder.
They posted bail.
If it turns out no crime was committed - do they get that money back?
(Yes, I am not too bright about these things).
Great article by the way. Some really juicy stuff that should make people who believed Wittels to be a rapist think twice on it.
A few things definitely stand out.
1) One of the fathers was accused of being an extortionist including trying to get a woman to make a false rape claim. Flag #1
2) This part is unusual and important since it shows gold digging. From the article, "Lawyers for the girls have requested information on all three men’s insurance companies — unusual, according to famed Miami attorney Roy Black, when a criminal case has yet to be tried."
3) From the girl in black dress's story, "“As [my friend] and I were getting ready to leave, I observed a group of five white males coming from the casino [who] went directly to the bar,” said the girl in the black dress. “[My friend] pointed them out and said they looked like tools, meaning they looked stupid.”. To me that sounds like they thought about using them for their own desires.
4) The survelliance footage shows the girls are lying about certain aspects of the night. And somehow a date rape drug would make the girls them hold hands with the guys, making out with them on the craps tables, all initiated by the girls. Date rape drugs knock you out. Which also weren't in their systems according to the hospital.
This make FIU look smart for standing by Wittels and if everything goes well, he will be cleared of all charges.
He is fucked. The Bahamas is a country manginafied.
I think this is potentially IMPORTANT.
Pierce, did you see this?
http://feminist.org/nomoreexcuses/index.asp
You should read the letter.
Now mind you, I don't like that the FBI definition excludes males. And one can argue whether forced oral or anal should be rape, though I really don't mind. However when you start throwing in statuatory and stuff - well, one can see just how much they want to inflate the numbers.
Right now the FBI's report is partly a control to let us see just how much other rape measures stack up against a more traditional one. If they change it, we will no longer have that kind of historical indicator.
Clarence
It is a societal and legal perversion that has fostered a culture of false rape accusations, to the degree that girls can say they were raped if their dads catch them drinkin.
May 9, 2011 5:25:00 PM
The sources for that "article" are extremely poor. Half the footnotes are for Ms. Magazine articles.
For what it's worth, based on the reporting from the Herald about the father of one of the girls involved - namely trying to set up a "[Racetrack] Girls Gone Nutz" video at a sporting event where the sport [NASCAR] eventually sued - John Eckerd has tried some of this nonsense in the past.
Summing it up, John Eckerd was the guy behind "Racetrack Girls Gone Nutz" and therefore apparently the father of one of the accusers.
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