BENNINGTON - State police said Friday they cited a Bennington woman for falsely claiming she was sexually assaulted by an 18-year-old Shaftsbury man.
According to a statement by Detective Trooper Scott Dunlap, Jessica Hickey, 20, reported Monday she'd been sexually assaulted by the male in a wooded area in the town of Bennington. Dunlap said during the course of an investigation, he determined Hickey was lying about being assaulted and that the sexual conduct had been consensual. Dunlap is assigned to the Bennington County Special Victims Unit, which investigates sex crimes.
Hickey is scheduled to appear in Bennington Superior Court Criminal Division on Feb. 14 to answer the charge of giving false information to a police officer.
Link: http://www.benningtonbanner.com/local/ci_17121791
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I wonder how many hrs the young man was interrogated?
and, of course, they will not show her name, her photo, her adress, etc. that is the FRC...
g.k.
Well, here you have a female LE officer who works in a rape task force, making a false rape accusation.
Does anything else need to be said??
how about "2% of all rape allegations are true."
or maybe "2% of all rape squad officers are NOT corrupt."
a bit like the honourable senator with his honey trap accuser and not victim thing.
Off-topic:
Houston Senator's bill aims to stop wrongful convictions:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7412163.html
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2011/02/responding-to-unanswered-questions-on.html
The article was archived on the Bennington News Site, and they want you to pay for the full article....
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Date: January 18, 2011
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BENNINGTON - State police said Friday they cited a Bennington woman for falsely claiming she was sexually assaulted by an 18-year-old Shaftsbury man.
According to a statement by Detective Trooper Scott Dunlap, Jessica Hickey, 20, reported Monday she'd been sexually assaulted by the male in a wooded area in the town of Bennington. Dunlap said during the course of an investigation, he determined Hickey was lying about being assaulted and that the sexual conduct had been...."
The fact that she is being charged is good news. There seems to be only one way to return integrity to the rape accusation, and that would be to charge the ones who abuse that power by saying they were raped, when they were not.
” State police said Friday they cited a Bennington woman for falsely claiming she was sexually assaulted by an 18-year-old Shaftsbury man.”
Too bad that this is yet another example of such piss-poor reporting. If the police (the State Police, no less) end up charging a woman with making a false report, they are going to need to be absolutely certain that her claim was indeed false. That’s something which simply never comes across to the read in these stories. They might well arrest and even charge a man on nothing more than a woman’s word, but the reverse is never true. In order to even declare a claim “unfounded” they must first do a thorough investigation – one that would stand up to the scrutiny of “outside” interests (police Internal Affairs or state AG review) should the alleging victim-turned-perpetrator file a complaint.
If the detectives determined that any sex had been consensual, you can bet that it was more than the guy claiming that it was so. Rather, they were likely able to find corroborating evidence that, for instance, the woman was carrying on an illicit sexual relationship with the guy (of course, we’ve seen no shortage of situations in which cheating women willingly threw their lovers under the bus when they feared being exposed in their infidelity). I’d suggest that this is yet another such case of a woman being “caught” with another man and trying to recast it as “rape” rather than admit to her own failures. Of course, that’s just my guess on this one.
All too often if seems that police and/or the media will act in concert with the best interests of the women who made the false allegation and not reveal her motives for having done so, in what seems to be an effort to protect her public “reputation”. It is for that reason that whenever such details are withheld, I tend to suspect such a motivation is behind the silence regarding a woman’s reason for making an FRA.
AfOR - "Well, here you have a female LE officer who works in a rape task force, making a false rape accusation."
Sounds intriguing, but you didn't include the link.
False rape accusations should be prosecuted under something much more serious than the omnibus "giving false information to the police".
The reason why is obvious. His name is released and reputation immediately tarnished. He's arrested and held in jail and interrogated.
How serious the penalty is should be related to the damage done to him by the false allegation. This is fair and will also tend to lead women making false date rape allegations to confess quickly and e.g. make a public apology.
Quite fucking common these days.
On a related note, check this eye opening, albeit rather tongue-in-cheek article on how hysterical feminists can find rape in a drop of rain:
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/shakesville
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