Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Soldier hero aquitted of raping Facebook friend/Couple accused but not charged in horrific rape sees business plummet/Man wrongly imprisoned for 35 years marries
News Round-Up:
▲It took a jury only one hour and six minutes to clear 21-year-old soldier hero Sean Spooner of raping an 18-year-old woman he met on Facebook. Spooner, who had saved a captain's life in Afghanistan, said: “I have no idea why" she cried rape, but he thinks “she felt guilty about having sex with me because she had a boyfriend." Spooner describes the terror of awaiting the verdict: "I never felt so scared in my life as when the jury gave the verdict." Spooner spent seven months behind bars: "They refused to give me bail because I live less than ten miles away from her.” His mother does not like the fact her son is named but his accuser can't be identified: "She cannot be named, but everybody knows about Sean and that is not right. It has to change."
▲A couple in their 50s tries to salvage their restaurant business, badly tarnished by bizarre accusations that they and six other adults raped three prepubescent girls in a small trailer. A grand jury refused to indict the couple for the alleged crimes, but that can't undo the harm to their eating establishment -- business is down 75% -- all because of horrific accusations that, the news report says, were "apparently false."
▲A man who spent 35 years behind bars for a rape and murder he did not commit has gotten married. James Bain, incarcerated at 19, had never even used a mobile phone until he was released from prison in 2009.
▲Georgia rape claim not credible.
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It is a serious perversion of Americas legal system that it does not charge false rape accusers. The very few that are charged that you hear about here at FRS, are but a small fraction of the amount of false rape accusations girls are making; Now for such trivial reasons as "they don't feel like paying a cab fare".
When a legal system turns from prosecuting the guilty, to persecuting the innocent ON A REGULAR BASIS!! thats when the electorate need to stand up, and reign in the perversion of that system.
What started out as a windfall for American law enforcement around the country (All these federal pork bloating dollars from the feds to pervert statistics) has fostered and created a monster that one Bold sheriff from florida calls an "Epidemic of false rape accusations"
S in Boston - ”What started out as a windfall for American law enforcement around the country (All these federal pork bloating dollars from the feds to pervert statistics) has fostered and created a monster…”
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No, of course this isn’t why we have a seeming epidemic of false rape reports. There isn’t enough Federal money available to law enforcement to even begin to create a “profit motive” to begin with. And, furthermore, women don’t make false rape allegations in response to law enforcements desire to have them do so. I’d go into this more with you, but, experience demonstrates that you are not capable of grasping either the simple math involved nor the (lack of) logic as to why women would even begin to care if law enforcement was “getting rich”.
As I’ve tried repeatedly to explain to you, it is as it has always been: the women who make FRA’s are at fault, and all your attempts at back-door white-knighting on their behalf cannot change that essential fact.
A woman’s calculus in deciding to make an FRA is extremely unlikely to consider and consideration what so ever as to whether her accusation will be the “tipping” point that might allow a local LE agency to win a one-time completive VAWA grant for around $25,000 to help launch a new program aimed at better protecting women (that will cost that agency at least 10x/year to continue). I think most people can easily understand how ludicrous this belief of yours that women make FRAs in response to the prompting of LE really is. Even if it didn’t cost thousands to investigate each case, wasting their limited budgets and negatively effecting their ability to deal with other real crimes, why would they want to take on extra work just to create a single data point for (mis)use by the non-LE/anti-LE Sexual Grievance Industry?
The fact is the primary, if not the only, consideration a woman makes in deciding to make an FRA is how she perceives it will benefit her personally. This is why the apparent epidemic of FRA’s is fueled solely by women’s choices (independent choices, made of their free-wills, BTW).
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If you’d be interested in understanding why women might be inclined to make FRA’s more frequently than in the past [I suggest this rhetorically, as I know full well you don’t want to hear it, you just what to give the woman a free-pass, and play your little semantic trick of trying to further implicate LE as the “root cause” for not charging them - even though you don’t really wish to see any woman punished, having forgiven your own false accuser in favor of placing the entire blame on the police.], it can be easily understood in terms of women today finding themselves in more and more positions in which they believe that an FRA will help them out of their “mess”.
Since more women are now cheating on their husbands and boyfriends, it’s plainly, even painfully, obvious why the leading motivation behind FRA’s is an attempt to create an alibi for illicit behaviors.
And, given the nature of today’s “hook-up culture” and the frequency of drunken revelry, who isn’t bright enough to understand the direct connection between the increased opportunities for women to feel regrets or that she’s been “used” and the likelihood of increased numbers of FRA’s
And, in a culture wherein female “victims” easily and quickly gain attention, support and counseling, the “well wishes” of many people, and even money to cover “expenses”, the allure of an FRA is just that much more enhanced. A woman like Heidi Jones, going through personal and professional struggles can achieve a “quick fix” by simply claiming to have been the victim of a forcible (attempted) rape.
All of this is so very obvious, and so easy to understand.
I suppose that, in a perverse sense, I can admire your stubbornness to still cling to your delusions that the police have somehow devised a way to “beam” their message into womens’ skulls encouraging them to make FRA’s so as to support the effort to create false statistics and perhaps help them in their bid for VAWA grant money.
To continue to believe that woman are not to blame for making FRA’s, and only LE is culpable, for having encouraged them to do so, all in ht efface of such over-whelming evidence and logic is something that most people just wouldn’t be able to maintain. Reality would all but force them to abandoned eviscerated beliefs (even those closely held)…but not you.
OK Mr Werner, lets walk through this together. U say, "Its women", "Its women" that have led to the now "Culture of false rape accusations" in America.
I Say, "OK, Ille go with it...Its women that are the cause", Now how do we stop it"???
Well, historically a law enforcement system gets developed to protect the innocent and punish the offenders, so maybe we can ask them to help in some way??
Anonymous - ”Now how do we stop it"???”
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The reality is that it will require a multi-pronged approach. Just reflexively blaming LE in every case, regardless of actual circumstances doesn’t actually do anything to help.
Yes, LE will need to perform better. This is a given. Yet, if you’d have read some of the articles, you’d already know that in many cases, LE is starting to get it right. The majority of FRA’s that we learn about, we learn about because of LE determining that it was a false accusation. This often happens because LE either doesn’t believe the initial claim, or the evidence upon investigation begins to indicate that the alleged attack did not occur as claimed. What isn’t specifically written in most news accounts is that investigators literally turn on the accuser, and subject her to interrogation to break her and her story down.
That is the “protection” that they can provide for men who are falsely accused. They can neither stop women from making claims, nor can they tell which claims are real and which are not without looking into the claims. They need to investigate each and every claim properly and fully, that way the falsely accused are more likely to be exonerated earlier on.
The other thing that LE could do to help the falsely accused would be to avoid those very public arrests/”perp walks” (the accused can be asked to come in and make a statement, and unless they refuse to comply, there is no need to place them under arrest).
And still, even if LE were to become entirely “perfect” in every instance of an accusation, this would have only a limited deterrent effect on women who make FRA’s. Most FRA’s are made as a rather “spur of the moment” decision, in response to a situation they find themselves in. In those cases, the women aren’t bothering to consider the relative likelihood of their lies being found out, they are only considering their hoped-for effect/outcome in telling the lie.
Thus, the only practical deterrent posed by improved police response and proper investigation will be in those cases where the FRA is planned out, typically to gain attention or sympathy, or where revenge was the motivation (but this latter cause is not dependent of going to LE anyway, so if they don’t believe that they can get the desired results via police, false accusers will go to others who will act without restraint – as we have seen repeatedly).
In a similar way, we will also need the press/media to help out in making FRA’s less effective if we wish to deter women form making them. If they would refuse to publish the names of the accused until there is either sufficient evidence of the crime, or better still, until there has been a conviction, then not only could the “FRA for revenge” angle be addressed, but also the public and private harms done to the falsely accused via the spread knowledge of their having been accused. This will only be a small deterrent to FRA’s, but every bit can help.
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Next, we can examine the role of lawmakers in helping to discourage FRA’s. As it stands, the laws covering false reporting are merely misdemeanors (in the USA), and provide little meaningful punishment to those who are first-time offenders, even if the trouble and expense are incurred to charge them and follow-through with prosecution. As it stands, the costs associated with prosecuting someone for making a false report are actually a much better deterrent to such prosecutions than are the potential punishments for the false accuser a deterrent from making an FRA.
New laws must be enacted to address the serious nature of FRA’s and to provide proper punishment for making them, and as I have often argued, provide a more direct means for the false accused to recover financial damages (without the need to go after a civil judgment).
Real consequences, and the potential for serious financial losses will make for a better deterrent than will blaming and shaming either LE or the press.
Along those lines, the laws should be changed to require repayment of any victims assistance monies paid out to the accuser in cases where an FRA can be proven. This could help reduce any financial incentives towards making an FRA.
But, as we see, even in the UK where they have tough laws that are being applied to false accusers, with many ending up going to prison, even that is not enough to stop women for making FRA’s as they believe the potential benefit to them is worth the risk (this is probably an over-statement, as most FRA’s are made without thought regarding the possible consequences to the accuser herself, instead focusing almost entirely on the benefit she hopes to gain)
Thus, what we will ultimately need is a change in public perception and in the response to learning that an accusation has proven false.
In some ways, we see the former beginning to happen, as many are growing skeptical of rape accusations. The down-side is that this does hurt real victims.
Thus, what is needed is more widespread public scorn for those shown to have made FRA’s. If false accusers were shunned, fired, and/or suffered financial consequences (say, having to move to a new town), those who observed others suffering such outcomes would be given the most effective deterrent possible against choosing to make an FRA.
Sadly, instead we see them receive understanding and sympathy (unlike the falsely accused), getting “counseling” instead of penalty, and even being forgiven by some white-knights (even those who were themselves accused…hint, hint.). This allows them to get away with it every bit as much as does LE having little way to punish them, or even declining to punish them. As is true for the falsely accused, the greatest “penalties” typically come not from those imposed by LE, but rather from those imposed on them by the public.
Paul Elam’s efforts with Register-her.com is a step in that right direction.
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