False Rape Allegations.

Something like 25% to 50% of all rape accusations are intentionally false, according to some studies by social scientists.

On the other hand, there are reasons not to have crazy sex with crazy women. (See first point.)

//A former Connecticut college student charged with lying about being raped by two Sacred Heart University football players has been offered a plea deal that could see her jailed for two years.

Nikki Yovino, of South Setauket, New York, was described as looking visibly shaken in Bridgeport Superior Court on Thursday when her defense attorney told her about the prosecutors' offer.

In February, then-18-year-old Yovino was charged with falsely reporting an incident and tampering with or fabricating evidence.

Police alleged Yovino made up the rape story last October to gain the sympathy of a prospective boyfriend because she worried he would lose romantic interest in her when it became known she had sex with two football players in a bathroom during an off-campus party.

The players told police they had consensual sex with Yovino and were eventually cleared in the case.

Facing a disciplinary hearing stemming from Yovino's allegations, the football players chose to drop out of Scared Heart to avoid a potential expulsion, reported the Connecticut Post.//

This gal's a "keeper."

Woman fakes rape report to hide the fact that she cheated on her fiance.

False rape accusations -

Digital recording devices...

...a man's best friend.

More fake rape accusations.

Second time against same man, which shows he is an idiot who seems to like playing "legal system Russian roulette."

She's out on $500 bail, by the way.

More False Rape Accusations.

Clearly the answer is to change the definition of sexual assault in order to make it easier to claim an assault.

//A woman who lied about being sexually assaulted - leading to an innocent man’s arrest - has been shown mercy by the courts.

Tracy Kent was spared prison after a judge learned how she was a “damaged and vulnerable woman” with a catalogue of woes behind her.

Kent, 36, admitted she falsely told police she’d been sexually assaulted to get sympathy from her husband after a row.

She ripped her own clothes to make her story more believable, Teesside Crown Court heard today.

Her lies led to an innocent man being arrested, detained by police for three hours and bailed for six days.

Kent called 999 claiming she’d been attacked by a stranger who’d tried to rape her on June 7 last year.

She said she was approached from behind and punched to the ground by a man who tried to undo her belt in the Wellington Square car park area of central Stockton.

She told officers she swung a punch at her assailant and he grabbed and tore her T-shirt, said prosecutor Rachel Masters today.

Her report went to Cleveland Police’s major crime team and a man who had been in the area at the time was arrested and interviewed.

Inconsistencies surfaced in Kent’s account, but she stuck by her story when she was challenged and visited by investigators seven times.

The false report led to a press release and a police warning to the public over the potential dangers of walking home alone late at night.

After a week, and extensive examination of CCTV, she confessed she’d made up the allegations after an argument with her husband.//

More Fake Rape Claims.

It's just easier to accuse a man of rape than admit to a girlfriend that you slept with her boyfriend.

A young mother has been jailed for making two false rape claims within hours of drunkenly sleeping with a friend’s partner.

Ashleigh Loder, 25, wasted at least 100 hours of police time by inventing the assaults.

She first told officers she had been attacked by two strangers in an alley before changing her story to say a man she knew had forced her to have sex in her home.

However the friend she had accused was able to prove his innocence because he had filmed the sexual encounter on his mobile phone.

The footage showed Loder, a mother-of-two from Bideford, Devon, was a willing and active sexual participant.

She was drunk on vodka and invented her story because the partner of the man with whom she’d had sex was a friend.

She feared the consequences of the other woman finding out what they had done. She broadcast  her rape claims around Bideford and the man was forced to stay inside for two weeks to avoid reprisals, Exeter Crown Court  was told.

Loder admitted perverting the course of justice and was jailed for six months.

So, remember!, let's film those questionable one-night stands!

4 years for the innocent man; 2 months for the perjurer...

...served on weekends.

Another false rape claim:

Coast told a judge Monday that when she was caught by her mother looking at pornography on the internet, she said she had been sexually assaulted, blamed her neighbor. The lie snowballed from there, she said.

"I had no idea how far this lie would go," Coast said.

During Montgomery's case, Coast testified that he molested her in 2000 when he was 14 and she was 10. Montgomery was convicted and sentenced to more than seven years in prison, according to the Washington Post.

When Montgomery was arrested, Coast said she stuck by her lie.

It looks like she recanted because of guilt, and she was a minor.  So, perhaps, justice was done in some rough sense since at least the innocent man was cleared.

On the other hand, imagine what it must be like to be randomly plucked from your life just for being a neighbor to a kid who makes up a lie?

*Shudder*

More False Rape Accusations.

No one comes out of this one looking anything other than sleezy, but the woman manages to look sleezy and evil:

The woman accused them of rape. The video showed otherwise, police and prosecutors said. What happened that night led to the vicious beating of one of the men two days later.

Last Friday, a Sacramento Superior Court jury convicted Jasmine Levanna Kurre of felony assault likely to produce great bodily injury and of another count of felony battery.

Jurors acquitted Kurre of the misdemeanor filing of a false police report and of another felony count of robbing the beating victim of his cellphone.

Unfortunately for Kurre, 27, the man's friend shot the video, showing her laughing and carrying on with the two alleged rapists – hence, the lack of charges against them and the lodging of the misdemeanor false-report accusation.

"This is great stuff," Citrus Heights Police Detective Ron Pfleger told the man who shot the video, according to a transcript of his interview five days after the Feb. 17, 2011, beating of his friend, outside the assault victim's apartment. "This is exactly what you guys are hoping for."

Had it not been for the video, the chances were likely that Kurre's rape accusation against the two men would have been given more credibility by police and prosecutors.

Instead, it turned the tables on Kurre, who now is looking at the possibility of four years behind bars.

We seem to be seeing more of this also.

Woman jailed after fifth false rape accusation.

Nightmare - False Rape Accusations.

Man picked at random off Facebook and accused of rape.

Given everything he has been through, one wonders how Philip McDonald can even bring himself to look at Facebook. True, he’s hyper-conscious about his security settings, but then, so would you be if you’d endured what he has over the past two years.

For Philip, a polite and quietly spoken 26-year-old father-of-one, was plucked out of the blue by a total stranger who spotted his picture on the social networking site and decided to falsely accuse him of rape.

In an act of inexplicable viciousness, 31-year-old fantasist Linsey Attridge chanced upon a photograph of Philip and his then 14-year-old brother James and used it to back up a story she’d concocted. She’d done it, apparently, in order to win some sympathy with her boyfriend, when she feared his affections were waning.

It led to Philip, a wholly innocent chef, being harassed in the street and shunned at the school gates. He is still fighting, two years later, to salvage his battered reputation.

False Rape Claims...

...a continuing series.

Compulsive liar who cried rape 11 times is jailed: Her last victim was an innocent man who she simply 'didn't like any more'

A woman who cried rape was jailed yesterday after a court heard it was her eleventh false claim. 

Compulsive liar Elizabeth Jones, 22, was exposed when CCTV footage disproved her allegation against a man she ‘did not like any more’. 

She had made her first false rape claim in 2004 when she was just 13, Southampton Crown Court heard. 

Between 2005 and 2007 she made another eight allegations which police investigated and dismissed, although she was not prosecuted. 

In 2009 she was sentenced to a ten-month detention and training order for a similar offence. 

Jones’s latest victim was a boyfriend against whom she made the allegation after the pair had an argument.

25% - 40% of all rape accusations are false, not mistake, but intentional lies. 

False Rape Claims.

This stuff is hard to believe, but, apparently, it is common enough to happen in 25% to 40% of filed rape charges.

Woman claims rape because of "bad" sexual experience.

A Tennessee woman was charged with filing a false police report when she admitted that she lied about being raped.

She confessed that she concocted the lie because she simply did not enjoy one of her recent sexual experiences, and that the experience was “bad.”

Lynette Lee of Clarksville, Tennessee first told police on November 23 that she had been raped in a hotel room by a man she had met through the dating website MeetMe.com. “Lee said once at the hotel the man removed her clothes and, despite her protests, had sex with her,” according to newschannel5.com.

The rape suspect told police that his sexual experience with Lee was consensual. But apparently it was nothing to write home about.

Lee asked police to drop the rape case four days later, on Nov. 27, claiming that she lied about the rape because “she did not enjoy (the sexual encounter) and it was bad,” according to police.

You have to wonder about the gaping hole of narcissism that this woman must be in order to do such a thing.

If 40% of Rape Accusations are False...

... how many accusations of child abuse or domestic violence in the context of divorce are false?

From Lefebvre v. Lefebvre, 2011 Cal. App. LEXIS 1236, 1-3 (Cal. App. 2d Dist. Sept. 28, 2011)

Jon and Alice married in August 1995; they have two minor children. Over a period of years prior to August 2005, Alice began reading books on the subjects of divorce and money, including at least one book which included information about using false criminal accusations against a spouse in a divorce proceeding. During the same time period, Alice and Toothman conspired to bring false criminal accusations against Jon. On August 17, 2005, in furtherance of the conspiracy, Alice reported to a sheriff deputy that Jon had recently threatened to kill her and their children, and Toothman confirmed Alice's criminal report to the deputy.


On August 26, 2005, authorities with the Sheriff's Department, acting in reliance upon the criminal reports from Alice and Toothman, filed a criminal case against Jon, charging him with a violation of Penal Code section 422, making a criminal threat. The charge was tried to a jury and Jon was found not guilty.

At the time of the verdict, the jurors, acting of their own volition, selected the jury foreperson to read the following statement into the record: “We, the jury, believe that the absence of any real investigation by law enforcement is shocking and we agree that this appears to follow a rule of guilty until proven innocent. There was no credible evidence supporting the indictment. We believe prosecuting this as a crime was not only a waste of time, money, and energy, for all involved, but is an affront to our justice system. This jury recommends restitution to the defendant for costs and fees of defending himself against these charges. This jury requests that our collective statement be made available in any [future] legal action relating to these parties. ….” The judge who presided over Jon's criminal trial granted Jon's motion for a finding of factual innocence pursuant to Penal Code section 851.8, subdivision (e).

Yowzah!  There's a book on one book on "using false criminal accusations against a spouse in a divorce proceeding"?

False Rape Statistics.

These facts are literally breathe-taking:

How would the Justice Department respond if 25% of all black murder suspects were falsely accused of the crime by white accusers? Eric Holder would call an immediate press conference and announce he was mobilizing the national guard, the Mexican Army, and everyone who works in law enforcement to end such blatant, hateful, racist discrimination. He would, with righteous indignation, say there is much work to be done to realize the most holy Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream. A 25% false black murderer accusation rate might even incline some to believe that white people had it in for black people.


Now what if I told you that studies over the last ten years have shown that false rape accusations are likely in the ballpark of 25%, and could even be as high as 40%? Aghast, you are? Would you be inclined to think that relations between the (American) sexes had deteriorated so much that women were virtually warring against men through legal channels? Can you guess the public’s reaction to this uncomfortable truth? That’s right….. crickets.

25% of the accused in rape cases are exonerated by DNA evidence. – U.S. Department of Justice:

I don't mean the widely-circulated '1-in-4 women will be raped in their lifetime' but a statistic that suggests '1-in-4 accusations of rape are false.'


For a long time, I have been bothered by the elusiveness of figures on the prevalence of false accusations of sexual assault. The crime of 'bearing false witness' is rarely tracked or punished, and the context in which it is usually raised is highly politicized.

Politically correct feminists claim false rape accusations are rare and account for only 2 percent of all reports. Men's rights sites point to research that places the rate as high as 41 percent. These are wildly disparate figures that cannot be reconciled.

This week I stumbled over a passage in a 1996 study published by the U.S. Department of Justice: Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence After Trial.

The study documents 28 cases which, "with the exception of one young man of limited mental capacity who pleaded guilty," consist of individuals who were convicted by juries and, then, later exonerated by DNA tests.

At the time of release, they had each served an average of 7 years in prison.

The passage that riveted my attention was a quote from Peter Neufeld and Barry C. Scheck, prominent criminal attorneys and co-founders of the Innocence Project that seeks to release those falsely imprisoned.

They stated, "Every year since 1989, in about 25 percent of the sexual assault cases referred to the FBI where results could be obtained, the primary suspect has been excluded by forensic DNA testing. Specifically, FBI officials report that out of roughly 10,000 sexual assault cases since 1989, about 2,000 tests have been inconclusive, about 2,000 tests have excluded the primary suspect, and about 6,000 have "matched" or included the primary suspect."

The picture both bloggers are painting is that these claims come out of "date rape" cases, but do they? I guess this kind of statistic could be a product of bad identification in stranger rape cases, but is that really the largest category of rape cases?  Don't know. It would be interesting to get more details.

"Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it... "

[ The Incredibles.]

This is another false accusation of rape story, which as Glen Reynolds observes:

And we sure are seeing a lot of false rape charges nowadays, after decades of being told that women don’t lie about rape.

On the other hand, there is that amazing statistic that approximately 40% of all rape accusations are out and out fabrications.

Here is the story:

Gotcha" moments don't come more classic than the one that happened in Montgomery County recently.


The Sheriff's Office blotter says two officers were called to an apartment to investigate a sexual assault.

"The alleged victim stated to the deputies that her 26-year-old male friend had sexually assaulted her," the report says.

Fair enough, and with that friend standing in the same apartment, no big manhunt needed.

Not so fast: "Upon further investigation the deputies watched a video recording the male had made that showed the female telling him that she was calling the police because he was making her leave the apartment and she would tell the police he assaulted her."

That must have been some look on the woman's face when the dude hit "play."

Sheriff's Lt. Dan Norris tells Hair Balls he doesn't have any further info on the incident, including the name of the woman, who was arrested for making a false report.

"It was unusual, though," he says. "I remember reading that report and going, 'The man was looking out for himself.'"

There are a few things to ponder:

-- We have to assume this was some sort of romantic relationship, and a one-sided one at that. What is the strategical thinking that leads you to conclude falsely accusing the guy of rape is going to repair it?

-- How long would you let things play out between the woman and the officers, knowing all the time you had that slam-dunk in your pocket? Or do you just sit there praying the phone somehow didn't mess up and not record?

-- Once again, a villain is foiled by blabbing about his or her evil intent. Will they ever learn?

Three points.

First, my initial thought was that I was not not entirely sure if recording the conversation wouldn't have been illegal in California under Penal Code Section 632, which provides:

(a) Every person who, intentionally and without the consent of all parties to a confidential communication, by means of any electronic amplifying or recording device, eavesdrops upon or records the confidential communication, whether the communication is carried on among the parties in the presence of one another or by means of a telegraph, telephone, or other device, except a radio, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison, or by both that fine and imprisonment. If the person has previously been convicted of a violation of this section or Section 631, 632.5, 632.6, 632.7, or 636, the person shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

However, California Penal Code Section 633.5 provides:

Nothing in Section 631, 632, 632.5, 632.6, or 632.7 prohibits one party to a confidential communication from recording the communication for the purpose of obtaining evidence reasonably believed to relate to the commission by another party to the communication of the crime of extortion, kidnapping, bribery, any felony involving violence against the person, or a violation of Section 653m. Nothing in Section 631, 632, 632.5, 632.6, or 632.7 renders any evidence so obtained inadmissible in a prosecution for extortion, kidnapping, bribery, any felony involving violence against the person, a violation of Section 653m, or any crime in connection therewith.

It may - I underscore may - have been illegal to record this chick's ranting up to the point where she began spouting off about how she was going to fabricate a rape charge as part of her attempt to extort him into doing something or other.

Second, notwithstanding the issue of the legality of recording, a Penal Code 632 conviction seem like a way better deal than a rape conviction.

Third, with the ubiquity of recording devices in phones and whatnot, we may become a more honest society.