About rape ...
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Begin with Jane Roe, of the Roe v.Wade case. Roe eventually
admitted that she lied about being raped for the simple reason that, as a
feminist, she wanted to make a stronger case for women’s right to an
abortion.
Cathleen Webb lied about being raped out of fear of what
her parents would say if she became pregnant. The falsely accused man,
Gary Dotson, spent six years (of a 50 year sentence) in prison in spite of
her admission that she had lied about being raped. Prosecutors refused to
believe she was telling the truth about having lied.
In an
investigation of 556 rape cases, reported in Forensic Science Digest,
Vol.11, no.4, Dec. 1985, it was found through DNA testing that 33% of the
accusations were false. Another 27% in the same study were shown to be
false when the women involved admitted lying, or were shown to be lying by
lie detector tests. That’s a total of 60% false accusations.
Even
the liberal Washington Post reported it’s own study, in June, 1992,
wherein 30% of allegations of rape were proven false.
A study by
Hugo Adam and Micheael Radelet, reported in Stanford Law Review, 11/87,
found 350 cases where DNA proved the accusation false. Sadly, 23 of the
men falsely accused had already been executed, and eight more had died in
prison. Quite a high price to pay for promoting the false notion that
women don’t lie about sexual assault.
Internationally acclaimed
attorney, Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz published an
article in the Boston Herald (8/6/94) in which he discussed a nine year
study by a Purdue Univ. (female)
Sociologist, reported in The Archives
of Sexual Behavior, conducted in a large metropolitan area, including two
large universities, in which the data showed that 40% of the sexual
assault allegations were false. The
only definition of “false” was the
admission by the supposed “victim” that she had lied.
Another
study reported in Dershowitz’s article was done by New York City sex
crimes prosecutor, Linda Fairstein in 1987.
Fairstein found that,
of 4000 reports of rape each year in Manhattan, “about HALF simply did not
happen!” To paraphrase the Jerry Lee Lewis song, there’s “A whole lot of
lying going on!”
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WHY WOMEN LIE ABOUT RAPE
The
National Organization for Women , radical feminists, and Women’s Studies
departments, often deny that women make false accusations about rape by
asking the naďve, simplistic, and self-serving question:
“Why would a
woman lie?”
It turns out that there are plenty of reasons women lie
about rape, either deliberately or out of desperation.
A U.S. Air
Force study, “The False Rape Allegation in the Military
Community.(Forensic Science Digest.Vol II, No.4, Dec. 1985) investigated
556 cases of alleged rape, and found a 60% rate of false accusations. As
part of the study, women who were found to have made false accusations
were asked “WHY?”
Motivations given by the women who acknowledged
they had made false accusations:
REASON PERCENT
Spite or
revenge 20
To compensate for feelings of guilt or shame 20
Thought
she might be pregnant 13
To conceal an affair 12
To test husbands’
love 9
Mental/emotional disorder 9
To avoid personal responsibility
4 4
Failure to pay, or extortion 4
Thought she might have caught VD
3
Other 6
TOTAL 100%
The study found that most false
accusations are “instrumental” – they served a purpose. If the purpose
isn’t avoiding guilt, or getting revenge, it might serve a more focused
purpose, for example, telling her parents; “I didn’t just go out and get
pregnant, I was raped.” Or, telling her husband, “I didn’t have an affair,
it wasn’t my fault, I was raped.”
An unrelated Washington Post
article, “Unfounded Rape Reports Baffle Investigators” (6/27/1992) also
found a wide range of motivations to falsely accuse men of rape. Anger
toward boyfriends was common. One woman had her boyfriend spend 13 months
in jail before she acknowledged that she had lied. One woman accused her
newspaper delivery man of raping her at gunpoint because she needed an
excuse to be late to work.
Neither woman was prosecuted or even
reprimanded for lying to the police and attempting to have a man
frivolously imprisoned. In another case, police say the young woman who
admitted to falsifying two rape reports only wanted a day off from work.
All rape accusations need to be considered seriously, as, no doubt,
rape does occur. But a balance needs to be maintained between the claims
of the accuser against the all-too-often legitimate denial of the accused.
Women who are found to have made a false sexual assault complaint
should be punished with lengthy prison sentences. Perhaps that will make
other women think twice before making false complaints. |
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