Friday, February 10, 2012
Rape claim against seven teen males was a lie
A teen girl admitted that her rape allegation that sent -- seven -- male classmates, ages 14-18, to jail was a lie.
The unidentified girl, who is 16 years old, had claimed that she was repeatedly raped in a school restroom at Northeast High in Macon, Georgia, on January 19.
After several inconsistencies in the girl's story throughout the investigation, she admitted to Macon PD to lying to her mother, campus police, and Macon police about the alleged incident.
The charges against the boys were dropped, and the accuser has been charged with false reporting of a crime and making false statements to law enforcement, according to a news release from authorities.
"It’s a shocking twist in an incident that has been the buzz of the community since it was first reported," said one newspaper.
At least four of the young men had been named and shamed in the press. Three, who were 14 and 15, were at least spared that indignity by some of the newspapers.
Before the recantation, the editorial page editor of the Macon Telegraph, made some disturbing comments that need to be underscored here. Charles E. Richardson wrung his hands over the allegation, feigned impartiality -- and proceeded to criticize the boys.
"I . . . don’t know whether it was rape or not," he righteously harrumphed. "That will be decided by a court of law. However, I do know that society is in trouble when several boys think it OK to have sex in a school bathroom, or to stand around watching while school is in session." See here.
Please excuse me while I go bang my head against the wall. You see, it's always the boys' fault to chivalrous men like Charles E. Richardson.
He went on: "Rumors have floated that the girl is promiscuous and this isn’t her first time, just the first time anyone has been caught. I don’t know about that; but isn’t it ridiculous that rape cases often turn the spotlight on the victim? It’s something she did, not something he (they) did." He also said: "I feel for the victim."
Read it again. This man is an editor for a major newspaper with a large circulation, and he doesn't know the difference between an "accuser" and a "victim"? Really, Mr. Richardson? Words don't matter to you, sir?
Seven boys were charged with one of the most serious and heinous criminal offenses on the books, and you use language suggesting that the trial is over even before it has begun.
You know what's "ridiculous" to me, Mr. Richardson? Speaking as someone who gives voice to the men and boys wrongly accused of heinous sex crimes, it's ridiculous to me that some people are punctilious in their efforts not to "victim blame" rape accusers, but don't give a rats ass about "victim blaming" young men accused of rape.
More from the eminent Mr. Richardson: "Last week, I was thrown into a deep funk. A caller to our morning show said he was the father of one of the boys accused of raping a special-needs girl in a bathroom at Northeast High School. He blamed teachers, the administration and everyone else. Everyone else except his son, who remains in jail."
Well, now I'm in deep funk. If the boys' sexual escapades were troublesome and shocking, so was the girl's, but the eminent Richardson gives her a pass.
Here's a newsflash, sir: teens -- boys and girls --have sex, even group sex. The moral impropriety of that conduct is not why this story is newsworthy. Your newspaper, and every other news outlet, featured this story solely because the boys supposedly committed a non-consensual sex act, not because some teenagers engaged in incredibly stupid, consensual sex. Yet, your peculiar commentary seems to insist on a moral equivalence between rape and stupid, consensual sex, all the while excusing the girl from the consequences of her own free agency. To chivalrous men like Richardson, women are infants; only men have responsibilities.
I would need several degrees in psychiatry to understand what drove you to write this.
Mr. Richardson owes that father and the real victims here -- the seven boys -- a profound apology for his inexcusable comments. Before he utters another uninformed word on this subject, someone should send him our link about the Hofstra case -- http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/p/lamb-to-slaughter-hofstra-false-rape.html.
His email is crichardson@macon.com
Sources:
http://www.13wmaz.com/news/article/166781/4/Rape-Charges-Dropped-In-Northeast-High-Case
http://warnerrobinspatriot.com/bookmark/17490323-UPDATE-Northeast-Rape-Case
http://www.macon.com/2012/02/10/1899864/police-northeast-student-admits.html
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There needs to be a specific law prohibiting false rape charges, punishable by the same penalties of actual rape!
To falsely accuse someone of ANY crime should carry the same penalty of the crime, for innocense lost is equal to guilt established!
That'll put the lying bitches out of business. And I don't care about how it will scare actual rape victims into silence. If you are a victim of a crime, it is your duty to go to the cops, and if you are NOT a victim, your duty is to shut your effin' mouth. This nonsensical bogus rape culture needs to die.
Of course the credibility of 7 boys will never out weigh of 1 out of control female teenager. Aarod99k
Can the editor and media organization be sued for so calling and depicting the named boys as rapists?
Aharon
I am sick and tired of these stories. Bust mostly I am sick and tired of the fact that almost no one else is sick and tired of them, too.
I emailed him.
Zorro, there is allready legal mechanisms that can be used to charge false rape accusers, But perversions has stopped up the flow uf justice.
Four young mens' lives are essentially over, three more will have been involved in something sordid, and none of them will ever fully recover from the malice imposed upon them by a justice system which protects females by default.
The young woman will likely get a slap on the wrist, treated as a juvenile & see her record sealed when she turns 18. She will walk away, unscathed.
Yet we are expected to believe that men are the dominant sex in American culture.
Is it constitutional for American law enforcement to use protocol perversions and semantics games to manufacture the missinformation that only 2% of rape accusations are false, when multiple unbiased studies show the actual percentage to be over 50% of all rape accusations are false.
Does this manufactured number not amount to using state and federal dollars to build a prejudice against the innocent???
Or does the constitutional protections against men being persecuted by false witness mean nothing anymore when its overun by state and federal pork bloating, missinformation for pork bloating; and manufactured statistics??
...and when she makes another false rape accusation - which she most certainly will - she will enjoy rape shield protections...just like it never even happened...
12:13: In all likelihood, if she's convicted of making a false report, the applicable rape shield law won't keep out evidence of this lie if she makes a subsequent rape lie.
@Zorro
"There needs to be a specific law prohibiting false rape charges, punishable by the same penalties of actual rape!"
FRAs are incredibly troublesome and bad all around, but you go too far in suggesting they should be punished with penalties similar to those for commiting actual violent crimes. In the US crimes are punished based upon the idea of possessing Mens Rea (evil mind). A FRA is a person who has told a lie, a very hurtful and damaging lie, but the bottom line is they lied. A person who actually physically attacks another person, putting that person in fear of their life, causing another person great pain has a far more evil mind, is a far more dangerous person and should be punished far more harshly. An appropriate sentence for a FRA is something in the range of 2yrs.
This to anonymous's response to Zorro, wherein he hoists his white knight flag and posits that a false rape accusation, while bad, is not nearly so bad is an actual assault putting a person in fear of his life.
If someone assaults me it does not necessarily put me in fear of death or grievous bodily harm; it may just result in one of us getting a bloody nose. If he is so foolish as to put me in fear of death or grievous bodily harm I am usually equipped to deal with that also. In either case, I have the option to deal with the issue and the option of how I deal with the threat.
In the case of a false rape accusation, the assault is no less real because the accuser uses a proxy to visit terror and violence upon the subject of her assault. And the subject of that assault usually cannot effectively respond, is dependent on someone else to deflect or terminate the assault, and can never in todays instant information world escape the stain which her tarbrush has smeared upon his character.
I'd far rather have to deal with a bloody nose or the consequences of my defensive action.
@Uno Hu
I don't mean a bloody nose type of assault. I mean a left brain damaged, forever to walk with a limp, knife wounds accross the face before being raped type of assault. This type of assault deserves a lengthy prison sentence and demonstrates a far more evil mind than telling a viscious lie. Note: this anonymous is female.
I hope you sent your letter to Mr. Richardson, the newspaper and anyplace where it might get read.
They always blame the boys. Guilty even if innocent.
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