The next time someone self-righteously inquires, "Why would a woman lie about rape, given the ordeal she knows she will be put through?" Just tell her that she might lie about rape if a man refuses to buy her a beer. Tell her about the news story below, where Kristin Milligan tried to destroy the life of a man she didn't know because he wouldn't give her a beer. We have seen some terribly lame reasons for falsely accusing men and boys of rape -- we've seen rape lies told as an excuse for being late for work and to get out of paying a cab fare -- but this ranks among the more absurd. The woman in question was a serial false accuser, and fortunately the police were familiar with her and knew enough to stop her before she could destroy an innocent man.
Woman said man raped, held her captive
Police: She's known for false rape allegations
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Authorities arrested Kristin Milligan, 54, after police said she made false reports about being raped and sparked an emergency response from the Austin Police Department Friday.
A couple of police officers responded to Sixth Street and Congress Avenue about a disturbance in progress at 8:15 p.m., after Milligan reportedly called to say there was a male on the scene who had kidnapped and held her captive for five days. Milligan allegedly told the operator he had fled the scene but said she could see him assaulting another female at the moment.
Police found the suspect matching the caller's description at a bus stop a block away, where the man told police Milligan approached him at Sixth Street and Congress Avenue and said she would call 911 to report he had raped her if he did not get her a beer.
The man told police he did not know her and that because of her erratic behavior, he quickly walked away to the bus stop.
Police again approached Milligan, who they said told them the man had kidnapped her two weeks ago and kept her for several days. However, one of the officers said he had personally seen Milligan recently and had heard of other officers who had come in contact with her.
"Her involvement with our department shows that she has consistent involvement with us numerous times a week for the months of May, June and July," read court documents. "She also frequently makes false rape allegations."
Police said no one around the Sixth Street and Congress Avenue bus stop saw the man assaulting or disturbing Milligan or anyone else.
That's when police said it was clear Milligan had knowingly made a call to 911, given false information about an assault that was not happening and that the call and information elicited an emergency response from APD.
Police went to arrest Milligan, but they said she pulled away from them and fell to the ground. An officer moved in and started to handcuff her when she allegedly kicked out with her left leg, pushing the officer away while he tried to arrest her.
Authorities transported Milligan to Travis County Central Booking, where she allegedly became very irate and kept standing up, cursing and yelling. Authorities said she spat on an officer’s shirt and left forearm after making her sit down on the jail bench.
Milligan is charged with harassment of a public servant, a third-degree felony. Bond is set at $5,000.
Link: http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/crime/woman-said-man-raped-held-her-captive
Woman said man raped, held her captive
Police: She's known for false rape allegations
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Authorities arrested Kristin Milligan, 54, after police said she made false reports about being raped and sparked an emergency response from the Austin Police Department Friday.
A couple of police officers responded to Sixth Street and Congress Avenue about a disturbance in progress at 8:15 p.m., after Milligan reportedly called to say there was a male on the scene who had kidnapped and held her captive for five days. Milligan allegedly told the operator he had fled the scene but said she could see him assaulting another female at the moment.
Police found the suspect matching the caller's description at a bus stop a block away, where the man told police Milligan approached him at Sixth Street and Congress Avenue and said she would call 911 to report he had raped her if he did not get her a beer.
The man told police he did not know her and that because of her erratic behavior, he quickly walked away to the bus stop.
Police again approached Milligan, who they said told them the man had kidnapped her two weeks ago and kept her for several days. However, one of the officers said he had personally seen Milligan recently and had heard of other officers who had come in contact with her.
"Her involvement with our department shows that she has consistent involvement with us numerous times a week for the months of May, June and July," read court documents. "She also frequently makes false rape allegations."
Police said no one around the Sixth Street and Congress Avenue bus stop saw the man assaulting or disturbing Milligan or anyone else.
That's when police said it was clear Milligan had knowingly made a call to 911, given false information about an assault that was not happening and that the call and information elicited an emergency response from APD.
Police went to arrest Milligan, but they said she pulled away from them and fell to the ground. An officer moved in and started to handcuff her when she allegedly kicked out with her left leg, pushing the officer away while he tried to arrest her.
Authorities transported Milligan to Travis County Central Booking, where she allegedly became very irate and kept standing up, cursing and yelling. Authorities said she spat on an officer’s shirt and left forearm after making her sit down on the jail bench.
Milligan is charged with harassment of a public servant, a third-degree felony. Bond is set at $5,000.
Link: http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/crime/woman-said-man-raped-held-her-captive
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This story reminds me that it's
Time for Christmas in July!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2oPio60mK4
Bob & Doug McKenzie
....Okay now, this is our Christmas song
In case you don't know what
To get somebody for Christmas
There's lots of ideas in here
So listen and don't get stuck
By the way, that's me on the organ
(Aw, jeez) you start (okay)
On the first day of Christmas
My true love gave to me, a beer
On the second day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Two turtlenecks and a beer
On the third day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Three French toast
Two turtlenecks and a beer
There should be more there
(Where) on the...go
Fourth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Four pounds of back bacon
Three French toast
Two turtlenecks and a beer
In a tree, see, you need more
On the fifth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Five golden toques
Four pounds of back bacon
Three French toast
Two turtlenecks and a beer
In a tree
Okay, on the sixth, you go
Christmas, my true love gave to me
Six packs of two-four
Five golden toques
Four pounds of back bacon
Three French toast
Two turtlenecks and a beer
In a tree, okay
On the seventh day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Seven packs of smokes (nice gift)
Oh, six packs of two-four
Five golden toques
Four pounds of back bacon
Three French toast
Two turtlenecks
And a beer in a tree
Right, I keep forgetting
Phew, this should just be
The two days of Christmas
It's too hard for us
(Um) go, hoser (oh)
On the eighth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Eight comic books
Seven packs of smokes
Six packs of two-four
Five golden toques
Four pounds of back bacon
Three French toast
Two turtlenecks
And a beer on my tree
Yeah, that beer's empty
Okay, day (twelve) twelve
Good day
And welcome to day twelve
Five golden toques
Four pounds of back bacon
Three French toast
Two turtlenecks
And a beer in a tree
Beauty, eh
Where'd you learn to do that
Uh, albums
Boy, so, like, that's our song
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
And good day
Good day, everybody
Happy New Year too
Okay, you know what you left out
(What) donuts
I told you to get me donuts
Either on the ninth day
Or the tenth day
Or the eleventh day
I wanted donuts
Okay, the song's over
But I want
Merry Christmas, everybody
Or on the twelfth day
You coulda got me a dozen donuts
So, go out to the stores
And get some presents.
You coulda gone down to
Like, the good donut shop
Where if you buy a dozen
You get another one free
And then thirteen for
The thirteen days of Christmas
Well, next Christmas
I'll get me a chainsaw
Take off
Boy, that song was a beauty
It moved me
Yeah, I think it ranks up there
With Stairway to Heaven (what?)
Felony. :) Maybe this time she'll get some prison time.
And now they finally charged her with a felony, after letting her get away with false accusations literally for months.
This story shows just how impossible it is to protect yourself from false allegations. He didn't even know this trash, much less sleep with her.
Just imagine if she had kept her story a little more plausible, and if the police weren't already familiar with her. This victim could be spending the rest of his life in prison.
Is she even going to be charged for her real crime, which is falsely accusing a man of rape and kidnapping? Will she be charged for her vast history of false allegations against men?
What is wrong with this fucking country?
Anonymous - "Is she even going to be charged for her real crime, which is falsely accusing a man of rape and kidnapping? Will she be charged for her vast history of false allegations against men?"
The problem remains that her "real crime" is only a misdemeanor charge. Both the false rape report and the false kidnapping report charges are, for the purposes of criminal prosecution, hardly worth the effort, using netting the prep a small fine and community service as part of a deferred sentence.
Odd as it seems to rational people, her kicking an officer is considered a much, much more serious offense - a felony which can actually be used to put her behind bars. [I point this out to head-off the predictable anti-LE criticisms about police only caring about one of their own be effected. The police don't make the laws, in case some don't know and understand this.]
This should serve as a reminder to all that the US (or, at least the the individual states) desperately need an all-inclusive felony charge like the UK's Perverting the Course of Justice.
The complaints that false accuser too often "walk" are a natural consequence of people witnessing an obvious injustice. But, in some many of those cases, even if prosecutors did go to the trouble and expense of taking the cases to court, the fact that they are only misdemeanor charges means (necessarily) that the possible penalties are extremely limited. Even if a judge wished to give them a punishment commensurate with their harm done by their crime, he/she will be precluded from doing so, by law.
She could still get six months for that misdemeanor. There is no excuse for not hitting her with that.
And now if she ever genuinely is raped, nobody will believe her. Least of all the police.
The Woman Who Cried Rape.
It will be her own fault. Spare me the sympathy.
People would still believe her, actually.
What about resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer? Oh and that pesky false accusation thingy...
Unreal.
TMOTS
Guys at FRS, how credible is Kanin's research into false rape from the late 70's mid 80's?
I'm going to cite the Boy Who Cried Wolf precedent to suggest someone really should rape her.
Kanin's research spanned a number of years into the 90s. It was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior Feb 1994 v23 n1 p81(12).
Kanin's report was snapshot of a limited place over a limited time. It was flawed because it only acknowledged false rape claims where there was a recantation. It wasn't flawed because of polygraphs (and note his University study where he found 50% of all claims false, didn't involve polygraphs) because the women were told that they would be charged with making a false rape report but they persisted in recanting anyway. The recantations were deemed plausible because they were accompanied by a real world explanation that could be verified.
I am certain there'd be more false rape claims if that study were done today because more and more young women realize the power in crying rape.
Archivist,
Are you are saying that Kanins research was only flawed because it didnt take into account other factors, which may have seen the 41% figure rise higher?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298010/Facebook-libel-Law-student-dubbed-paedophile-wins-10-000-libel-damages.html
Law student dubbed 'paedophile' by former friend who posted child porn on his Facebook page wins £10,000 libel damages
A law student left fearing reprisals after he was falsely branded a paedophile on Facebook has won a £10,000 libel damages payout at the High Court.
Chef Jeremiah Barber, 24, posted images of child porn on the Facebook page of student, Raymond Bryce.
He added the message: 'Ray, you like kids and you are gay so I bet you love this picture, Ha ha.'
...
Now judge Mr Justice Tugendhat, sitting at London's High Court, has awarded Mr Bryce £10,000 in libel damages for the stress he endured, including anxiety that hundreds of people in his local area may have seen the post.
...
In the witness box, Mr Bryce said: 'Jeremy Barber put a defamatory blog on Facebook and made me appear to be a paedophile with homosexual tendencies, neither of which is true. He did so with intention and malice.'
'"When I viewed the pictures I was shocked because they were repulsive and disgusting and in no way reflected my attitude to life.'
'I asked for an apology which I have not to this date received. The whole thing has been distressing, not only for myself but for my family' he added.
Mr Bryce said there had been 11 links to the post, two comments from viewers, and more than 800 people would have been able to view the material.
Diana Bryce, Mr Bryce's mother, also took to the witness box to tell the judge how the whole family had been put in fear.
'Not more than three streets away from where we live, in a family that we knew, just because the dad looked a bit weird, he was accused of being a paedophile. The family was threatened and there was an arson attack and they all had to be rehoused.'
'When Raymond told me about what had happened I was really upset. He couldn't go into town because you didn't know who had been looking at Facebook. It was a vile thing to do, for him and for all our family. This is what you don't want for your son or any of your children.'
'He is very easy to send up and he's been the butt of their jokes for years. He was very easy to ridicule and bully, being autistic, and he's had it all his life,' she added.
'It was a horrible and really stressful time for all of us. It wouldn't be nice for any family, not knowing how many people have read it and what people are thinking'.
'Some people just think there's no smoke without fire,' Mrs Bryce concluded.
Mr Justice Tugendhat said: 'This was not only defamatory, but a defamation which goes to a central aspect of Mr Bryce's private life as well as his public reputation.
'This post was deeply offensive to him, but also a cause for alarm. He could not go out in public because he feared he would be a victim of violence, which is not infrequently the result for those accused of paedophilia.'
'It is well known that people accused of being pedophiles may be subjected to serious violence, even when there is no basis for the accusation.'
'I can infer that the number of people who saw this Facebook page would have been in the hundreds. This post was clearly a malicious act and the defendant has done nothing to express any regret.'
'Damages in libel actions are awarded as compensation, not as punishment, to vindicate reputation, to compensate for harm to that reputation and as compensation for injury to feelings.'
'I asses the damages in this case at £10,000,' the judge concluded, also imposing an injunction banning Barber from repeating the libel.
SNARK COMMENT ON THE ABOVE:
Some people think it is funny to brand others as rapists, pedophiles, abusers and molestors. We all know where this can lead, even without a case being brought - people losing their jobs, being forced to move out of the area, receiving death threats, and at the worst, being attacked/tortured to death.
This should be the standard response from the courts in cases where no accusation was made to the police, but an accusation was made nonetheless. £10,000 will make people think twice. Here's hoping Raymond Bryce can get his life back on track after this horrid episode. My fullest sympathies are with him.
Anon, read the report for yourself. I noticed that a lot of people who've never read it love to toss around phrases like "peer review" and other criticisms, but they've never read it. And by the way, they are OK with Kanin's other work, which was even cited in the Koss report, but when it comes to this subject, and a result they don't like, Kanin became a nitwit.
Copyright lawyers are cracking down on blogs which copy-paste entire articles. I suggest that you make an excerpt and link to the story, instead of pasting the entire thing. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/copyright-trolling-for-dollars/
"Just imagine if she had kept her story a little more plausible, and if the police weren't already familiar with her. This victim could be spending the rest of his life in prison."
Yes, this is why prosecuting rape should require corroborating evidence.
Jul 27, 2010 9:26:00 AM
Jul 27, 2010 9:48:00 AM
Same troll?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape
That article is crap even by Wikipedia standards.
http://daterapeisrealrape.com/Kanin_Study.html
"Since investigators were not given the power to use their discretion about whether or not to investigate a rape case, investigators who didn't want to investigate had a clear motive for pushing those women they didn't believe into recanting ASAP."
That makes no sense.
"None of the allegedly false rape reports in Kanin's 9-year study independently proved these women's reports to be false. That is highly significant.
Rather than showing a verified rate of false reports at 41%, Kanin's study shows a verified rate of false reports at 0%."
No, even putting aside that all those counted as false reports recanted, they were all independently determined false by police investigation.
Anonymous coward - "Here are some links that speak to the credibility of Kanin's research"
No!,
They attempt to discredit his study by lying about it. Why don't you read the actual study, and then tell us in your own words, what you find wrong - citing the specific text from the study.
Or, perhaps, given your cowardly nature, you simply prefer to show us that oft claimed-to-exist study that shows a false rape reporting rate of 2% that Susan Brownmiller gave the world?
What!?!? You can't find it!?!?
Well, of course you can't - it doesn't exist. It was never done. It was just made up. (Say, why aren't you skeptical about that oft repeated non-existent statistic? After all, you see to be concerned about credibility - right?)
So, maybe you can find a study that shows that the overall false reporting rate for crimes is 2%?
"It is clear that the woman is mentally ill. This does not give any merit to anything this blog is trying to prove."
A lot of women are mentally ill enough to make false rape claims. We're trying to make people aware of this. It's not just the raving homeless women.
Archivist, Im the guy who asked about Kanin.
Thanks, I am just a normal guy off the street, but I had heard of Kanins 10 year study.
I have just obtained his report in pdf, form 'the archives of sexual behaviour' 1994, it was available via a rather easy google search.
Keep up the good work guys :)
Anonymous coward - ”It is clear that the woman is mentally ill. This does not give any merit to anything this blog is trying to prove.”
So very wrong.
It shows exactly one of the things that this blog is trying to demonstrate - that women DO understand the power that the threat of their making a false allegation gives them over a man. Even bat-sh*t crazies recognize that the power of threatening to cry “rape”. How many times must it have worked-out for this women before that she would so flippantly toss out the threat – and even follow through with it when the man refused her demands?
How is it that you could possibly be too “dense” to see something so painfully obvious?
Anon @ 12:04:
"Here are some links that speak to the credibility of Kanin's research:
http://daterapeisrealrape.com/Kanin_Study.html
I have read this refutation as well as several others before.
The very argument that is attempted to disprove Kanin actually reinforces and supports its validity, from a research standpoint. And I've yet to understand how anyone can logically put forward this argument. So, if you can, please explain. I mean that sincerely.
No woman was coerced into using polygraph; "a serious offer" was made to both the claimant and the accused. Meaning they had choice to do so or not. Those who did willingly chose to. If you want to dispute polygraph findings, okay, that's another matter.
That investigators were told to pursue allegations whether they normally would have or not, because of a lower workload, is irrelevant. Isn't this the GOAL of victim advocates? To have LE pursue and take seriously every report and follow it to its logical conclusion?
To suggest that these officers would be MORE motivated than any others to coerce a false statement makes no sense.
To tout this as a reason to not believe the overall conclusion, likewise, makes no sense.
A good reading of Kanin's work would lead someone to believe he concluded a fairly conservative estimate, not a wildly outlandish one.
I would really like someone to explain to me why SOME of Kanin's research is noted and referenced by some feminists and researchers, but not this one study. Are you suggesting that he and his team magically changed into unreliable researchers, but ONLY for the term of this one 9-year study?
I may be an advocate, but I refuse to be blind to the truth.
I don't print propaganda on my blog -- I have deleted the "links" to Kanin's report. Wikipedia is not a source. Feminist advocacy sources are not legitimate sources. Call Mary Koss and ask her why she thought Kanin is so credible. It's because he is a feminist icon who wrote a very inconvenient report.
Don't post that crap here again.
Sorry for promoting that derail, Archivist.
It just got me hot and no one has satisfactorily explained to me why that one report gets so much heat...other than the obvious.
Her behavior is singularly ignorant, not to be confused with the state of love, appreciation, and attraction that men and women have for each other, marred only by poor quality of communication between them.
For those obsessed with deriding Kanin, here's the whole story: the overriding evidence suggests that false rape claims are a significant problem, and that the victims of false claims are not rarities. No one knows for certain the percentage of false rape claims. A leading feminist legal scholar recently acknowledged: ". . . the statistics on false rape accusation widely vary and 'as a scientific matter, the frequency of false rape complaints to police or other legal authorities remains unknown.'" A. Gruber, Rape, Feminism, and the War on Crime, 84 Wash. L. Rev. 581, 595-600 (November 2009) (citation omitted).
But it is erroneous to assert that only a tiny percentage of rape claims are false because no one can make that assertion with any degree of certainty. The prevalence of false rape claims is neither known nor knowable. Here is why: for every rape claim reported, only a relatively small percentage can be definitively called "rape." This is beyond dispute. Approximately fifteen percent end in conviction and of those we know that some innocent men and boys are convicted. We also know that some claims reported (the numbers vary depending on the study) are outright false. But in between the claims we are reasonably certain were actual rapes, and the ones we are reasonably certain were false claims, is a vast gray area consisting of a group of claims that cannot properly be classified as "rapes" -- because we just don't know. That's the nature of a rape claim. The claims in this vast gray middle area often suffer from evidentiary infirmities. For example, for some such claims, while the claimant herself might think a rape occurred, her outward manifestations of assent did not match her subjective disinclination to engage in sex, so it wasn't rape.
Regardless of what the actual number might be, every impartial, objective study ever conducted on the subject shows false rape claims are a serious problem. As reported by "False Rape Allegations" by Eugene Kanin, Archives of Sexual Behavior Feb 1994 v23 n1 p81 (12), Professor Kanin’s major study of a mid-size Midwestern U.S. city over the course of nine years found that 41 percent of all rape claims were false. Kanin also studied the police records of two unnamed large state universities, and found that in three years, 50 percent of the 64 rapes reported to campus police were determined to be false (without the use of polygraphs). In addition, a landmark Air Force study in 1985 studied 556 rape allegations. It found that 27% of the accusers recanted, and an independent evaluation revealed a false accusation rate of 60%. McDowell, Charles P., Ph.D. “False Allegations.” Forensic Science Digest, (publication of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations), Vol. 11, No. 4 (December 1985), p. 64. See also, "Until Proven Innocent," the widely praised (praised even by the New York Times, which the book skewers -- as well as almost every other major U.S. news source) and painstaking study of the Duke Lacrosse non-rape case. Authors Stuart Taylor and Professor K.C. Johnson explain that the exact number of false claims is elusive but "[t]he standard assertion by feminists that only 2 percent" or sexual assault claims "are false, which traces to Susan Brownmiller's 1975 book 'Against Our Will,' is without empirical foundation and belied by a wealth of empirical data. These data suggest that at least 9 percent and probably closer to half" of all sexual assault claims "are false . . . ." (Page 374.)
This girl that wanted the beer is the epitome of the new Gender / Raunch culture. These girls are violent, degenertate, raunchy types that are the the product of the Gender / Raunch quacks in Academia.
Gender / Raunch perverts in Quackademia do not like proffessor Kanins report.
In the land of "Empowering perverts" Their perverted ideology trumps academic integrity.
"This girl that wanted the beer is the epitome of the new Gender / Raunch culture."
You have been sorely missed this last week. Go anywhere nice on your summer vacation?
He's back? Whew, that's a relief.
I was sweating there for a minute.
Where the hell is Amanda Marcotte and her bullshit now?
This woman was a serial accuser and nobody gives a shit. "Not a significant problem" my ass.
Yay, Gender/Raunch guy is back!
Get any new material?
(let's see...reading...reading)
NOPE!
Good to have you back.
"Yay, Gender/Raunch guy is back!
Get any new material?"
And his spelling and grammar errors are back too! Yay....
Hey guys, I target the Gender / Raunch community because i see that they are the ones fomenting Rape hysteria on campusses around the country. Most will choose the path of "Willfull ignorance" about how the Gender / raunch community get "Empowerment" from peddling faulty and inflamatroy Rape hysteria on campuses around the country, but someone has to point out where its coming from.
May god help us all, but the Gender / raunch rise to power on the backs of innocent hetero-sexual males...is a very serious perversion.
So, gender/raunch research expert.
What is the origins of gender/raunch?
What, exactly, is your definition of gender/raunch?
Who pioneered gender/raunch in the first place?
Just askin....
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