A chilling story out of Connecticut.
Brittany Reith, 20, showed up twelve hours late to the apartment she shares with her boyfriend because she'd been out on the town having a good time with a 31-year-old man. To cover up, Reith made a sworn, written statement to police claiming she'd been kidnapped by three men, held against her will, and repeatedly raped.
The man Reith had been with, 31-year-old Joseph Gay and his cousin, 30-year-old Anthony Lee, were arrested on felony sexual assault and battery charges.
Anthony Lee was arrested even though he was working for most of the time when he was allegedly holding Reith against her will and raping her.
Joseph Gay was also arrested, even though a video camera proved he was eating lunch with Reith at a Wendy's, and trying to get into a club with her, not holding her against her will.
Lee, a former standout Norwalk High School basketball player, had no criminal record. Gay had never been arrested for a violent crime.
Both men were initially held on "extremely high bonds" because of the violent nature of the accusations.
Read that last sentence again: a rape accusation is enough to lock up a male before any investigation and, for most men (except the wealthy), there's no real chance he'll get out before trial unless the claim was clearly a lie.
But then, Norwalk detectives and investigators from the State's Attorney's Office conducted what one newspaper called "further investigation" into the matter and found several pieces of evidence that contradicted Reith's story. Specifically, the video of the Wendy's and the information about being at the club.
Far from being held against her will and raped repeatedly, Reith and Mr. Gay spent a night on the town, then caught a ride to Lee's home and slept on his couch.
When Reith told police her rape lie, patrol officers went to Lee's home and found the two men sleeping. The men were immediately arrested.
That's all it took. Just her word.
Yet a police officer said this: "We can't take things at face value, and we don't."
Did you get that? Arresting two innocent men and holding them on extremely high bonds before any investigation is conducted is not taking things at "face value."
Down, down, down the rabbit hole we go.
In contrast, Reith's bond has been set at $5,000. Meaning she's probably out already, partying, going to Wendy's, and scanning the Internet for stories about her. I hope she sees this one.
I don't know what scares you, but this story scares the hell out of me.
SOURCES:
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/policereports/article/Norwalk-woman-charged-with-falsely-reporting-rape-1443251.php#ixzz1QbFa6VBH
http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/f91ba1d4d2d0406dbd0161a5672c77fc/CT--Rape-Hoax/
http://www.thehour.com/register/?storyid=507282
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”Yet a police officer said this: "We can't take things at face value, and we don't."
Did you get that? Arresting two innocent men and holding them on extremely high bonds before any investigation is conducted is not taking things at "face value." “
While it’s normal to arrest those who are suspected of violent crimes, asking for a high bond (a prosecutor would have been the one to make the request at the arraignment) is where the allegations were clearly simply being taken at face value.
From linked article:
Sgt. Marc Lepore, whose detective squad headed up the rape investigation, said there were inconsistencies in Reith's story from the beginning.
"Our entire squad worked for over 100 hours and conducted interviews with up to 15 people to eventually disprove the rape allegations," Lepore said.
Lepore went on to say that it was fortunate for Gay and Lee that the investigation worked out the way it did and he gave credit to the detective squad for finding the truth.
"It is our job to find the truth... We can't take things at face value, and we don't," he said.
Apparently he was specifically referring to the work of the detectives – only (they seem to be the only ones who had any suspicion that it may have been an FRA). Still, it took them 6 weeks and a rare visit from a Supervisory State's Attorney (which, from what I can gather, is the equivalent of a State Attorney General) to get the charges dropped.
[my wild guess: the detectives quickly realized it wasn’t legit, but some wanna-be Mary Kellet wouldn’t drop the case, leading to the intervention from the State Attorney’s Office have it dismissed in court. There’s definitely something more to the story when a Supervisory State's Attorney shows up at a court hearing to argue (against the local DA?) for a dismissal. Things may be very different in Connecticut, but the decision to drop a case usually rests with the DA’s Office, and it isn’t necessary to present a case for dismissal to the presiding judge nor for the official court record. I’d sure like to know more about what went on in this case that the press isn’t aware of and reporting on.]
Un-Duly denying an American citizen of his liberty, by using "Pervert protocol" to arrest any man or boy on the silliest of accusations (especially when America is in the midst of a culture of false rape accusations), is unconstitutional.
The perverts who are receiving "federal pervert dollars" for persecuting innocent men and boys will eventually be held to account, but not before they drive a huge perverted wedge between hetero-sexual relationships in America.
Fostering and enabling women and girls to lie to ruin mens lives will eventually make relationships with women to much of a potential disaster, so men will and are staying away from them.
Is this the intended purpose for all the federal "Pervert dollars" that are flowing like rain into American law enforcement jurisdictions?? To discourage hetero-sexual relations???
see this is the story of a bad liar, what happens if she happens to be good?
False rape accusers will learn. They will learn to clobber together a better case, that can not be falsified so easily.
With a bit more intelligence and planning, these men would have stayed behind bars for another year until trial and probably for decades.
Has anyone ever figured out statistics?
For every man freed by VIDEO EVIDENCE, there are probably 100 not-so-lucky men held and probably convicted on false accusations.
It is not common that women are so dumb as to accuse someone of rape while being videotaped eating lunch.
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