No man is safe from an inexplicable false rape claim.
Rodney Peters, 42, works for Party City. He was at the Westwood, Ohio store on March 12 as it was being switched over to Party City from a Factory Card Outlet store. A woman half his age, Kimberly St. Charles, was one of the temporary workers hired to restock the shelves and change the décor to make it an official Party City store.
Peters didn't know St. Charles. Except for introducing himself to all of the temporary workers, Peters never spoke to St. Charles.
But then, something happened that is inexplicable. St. Charles left for lunch and did not return. A few hours later, police showed up at the store and started asking questions of Peters' boss. It seems St. Charles had gone to the police and falsely accused Peters of rape.
Peters found himself in a room with police who said they had to take him in for questioning.
Imagine the embarrassment? Peters' co-workers likely thought the worst.
At the police station, Peters' embarrassment turned to shock when a female officer told him he'd been accused of rape.
How could this happen? The man didn't even have a speeding ticket to his name. He offered his DNA and to take a polygraph, which police arranged. The female cop questioned him aggressively.
Rape charges hung over his head for three days. His employer suspended him.
But the female cop became suspicious of the allegations and pushed for St. Charles also to be aggressively questioned. On March 15, St. Charles admitted she made the story up.
Mr. Peters said: "I was absolutely devastated. I was sick for three weeks. I couldn't sleep. I didn't eat. It was something you don't even discuss."
"There isn't a day that I don't think 'Why?' " said Peters.
St. Charles can go to prison for up to a year but the charge carries the presumption of probation. She may have to pay for the investigation - 11 detectives investigated and interviewed witnesses over three days.
"My biggest thing," Peters said of St. Charles, "is for this young lady to get some help."
SOURCE: http://communitypress.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20110531/NEWS010702/106010311/Woman-pleads-guilty-lying-about-rape?odyssey=nav%7Chead
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"My biggest thing," Peters said of St. Charles, "is for this young lady to get some help."
Alas,
It seems the falsely accused innocent man is also a white-knighting fool, who likely believes that he's the only guy who's ever suffer such humiliation and fear.
He thinks that the women just needs some psychiatric help. I bet that she did it so as to try to set up a law suit against the employer, and is simply a cold-blooded, money-driven A-hole.
Still, the white-knight emerges from his ordeal with sympathy for the b*tch that decided he's make an ideal target for her lie. Go figure.
The police - a female detective, no less - smoked the lie out, but this poor sap will probably turn out to be one of those "nice guy" dupes who, in the long run, will not blame the women, but will instead blame the police for the whole situation.
I am guessing, and would wager a substantial sum of money on it, that the victim in this case will see our post sometime, likely soon. They all do. I understand his reaction to, what I am sure, seems to him to be something so other-worldly as to have no explanation. The reality is that the lie likely was told to cover up something, perhaps something as simple as why she didn't come back to work after lunch.
What is frightening is the cold callousness, the cruelty, of the lie, and the power that a rape liar has to turn an innocent male life upside down.
slwerner hit the nail on the head: you are not alone, sir. This isn't some isolated phenomenon that can be dealt with by getting the offender some help. She needs to be deterred so that other men don't suffer the same fate, and to send a message to other young women that the cry of rape is sacred, only to be used when rape has actually occurred.
Maybe she was late for work or something??
I take exception with your "inexplicable" description. If there's one thing I've learned at this web site it's FOLLOW THE MONEY. I would not be a bit surprised if she was already conferring with a civil attorney for damages. These bogus rape claims are the new slip and fall cases- only with a man ending up in prison.
"My biggest thing," Peters said of St. Charles, "is for this young lady to get some help."
slwerner said,
"It seems the falsely accused innocent man is also a white-knighting fool, who likely believes that he's the only guy who's ever suffer such humiliation and fear".
I disagree sl, Peters' comments reflect the general sentiment voiced by many (men and women) when a woman commits a crime/offense/wrong in their community that is more indicative of broad, social engineering than the white knight mentality of some men.
Archivist - ”The reality is that the lie likely was told to cover up something, perhaps something as simple as why she didn't come back to work after lunch.”
I’d be inclined to have though that too – but I just couldn’t get past the fact that she named a specific “target” and (seemingly) claimed that the fictitious rape took place at their place of work.
I mused that she, as a temporary employee, was looking for a way to either extend her employment, or to simply get a quick (and large) “pay day”. While Party City isn’t a Fortune 500-type company, it is nation-wide, and thus must have some deeper pockets to try to pick. I also was thinking that she might have known that any security cameras had been turned off during the renovation, and she could therefore use that to go after the company for their failure to provide a safe work environment.
Perhaps I’ve just become to jaded in my view that this has become an overly litigious society, with lots of shysters looking to force a company into a quick settlement in order to keep salacious scandals out of the press. A company like Party City, which is likely to have a much larger percentage of woman as it’s customers, wouldn’t want to become k known as a business which “allowed” it’s female employees to be raped at work.
” But the female cop became suspicious of the allegations and pushed for St. Charles also to be aggressively questioned. On March 15, St. Charles admitted she made the story up.”
I can’t help wondering what lead to this female detective’s change of mind (in light of the expose from Newsweek, which wasn’t too flattering of them). Seeing as how they took a DNA swab of Mr. Peters, perhaps they fully expected to find some DNA evidence on her person (based on her account), and when they could not, it raised a red flag?
There really is a very good “news story” behind many of these FRA’s that are unraveled during investigation. It just seems that what passes for journalists these days simply haven’t got a clue about how to “dig” for the story the way newsmen used to. Now, the just parrot what ever sparse information they are given, and don’t bother to ask what should be obvious questions.
I sometimes wonder if these forgiving comments from the victims of false accusations perhaps come from a place of cynicism as opposed to true "empathy".
These goes have just been made to look pretty damn bad. Thankfully there names have now, to a degree, been clensed. However, acting like a mean old man by going after a poor confused little girl for their pound of flesh (the bully) is going to make them once again, look bad.
So instead, they swallow their pride and they take the "high road".
Rather than blaming a guy for trying to preserve his reputation we should reserve our scorn for the values that put them in such a assinine situation.
She may have to pay for the investigation - 11 detectives investigated and interviewed witnesses over three days.
Keep dreaming. A female stocking shelves? These females never end up paying anything. They must be charged with a felony and go to prison then you'll see how fast they straighten out.
I've never had anything like this happen to me but if it did there would be a lawsuit against the female and the city and the cops.At the very least I'd get a judgement against the female and even if she had no money to pay it I'd make sure that for every day of her life wherever she may work I'd garnish her salary up to the legal limits. And if she ever came into any money I'd be right there to take it from her.
These bogus rape claims are the new slip and fall cases- only with a man ending up in prison.
Bingo!
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Many men by nature, do decide to have casual sex with other unknown females; how do you defend a FRA if this is the end result? You can’t. This new slip and fall cry rape case phenomenon is making a lot of money for all of the parties involved.
Slip and fall cry rape cash phenomenon
The gentlemen in this case could have received 5 years in prison for this FRA, had he been scared in a plea agreement.
The FR accuser should do at least 5 years in prison.
Maybe she made the rape accusation because she had a cab fare that she didn't want to pay??
She doesn't need any "help."
She did the logical thing and used the power that the
courts have given to her.
She has had enough help.
It is the court that needs psychiatric evaluation.
(This means YOU Judge!)
the only help she deserves is helped into a jail cell.
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