Short, sweet, and to the point.
False Allegation of Serious Sexual Assault
An allegation of serious sexual assault which was said to have occurred yesterday afternoon in the Coulby Newham area of Middlesbrough, has been retracted by the complainant.
An allegation of serious sexual assault which was said to have occurred yesterday afternoon in the Coulby Newham area of Middlesbrough, has been retracted by the complainant.
Police are therefore taking no further action.
Link: http://www.cleveland.police.uk/news/appeals/appeal11048.aspx
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The public has a right to know. Was a man arrested and questioned for instance? Why is the complainant being not charged?
Openness is fundemmental to our legal system. Unless it is a woman making false allegations apparently.
It seems to me a woman can make an allegation and put a man through hell, then withdraw the complaint without consequence after she has exacted her revenge.
The local media should be pressurized into making further inquires. It is their function to hold our Institutions to account.
Don't know whether this may be entertaining for you, but I've begun a little debate with the folks at the Barnyard Chorus - they apparently don't think that False Rape Accusations exist.
http://barnyardchorus.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-we-stand-for.html
Anonymous - "I've begun a little debate with the folks at the Barnyard Chorus"
I suppose they mean to be serious, but they come off like some sort of Jeff Foxworthy "you might be a redneck..." joke.
The guy who wrote the piece wasn't even aware of Rape Shield Laws. That's more "backwards" than not having indoor plumbing.
ESB - ”Short, sweet, and to the point.”
But, that’s also part of the problem. It’s sort of a “nothing to see here folks, move along” appeal posing as a news account.
As Zimba notes, “The public has a right to know.”
I go a step further and say that they have a need to know. Too many people remain ignorant of, and uninterested in cases of FRA’s. Pinting a little ”sort, sweet, and to the point.” blurb instead of detailed new account (I’m seldom surprised anymore to go to a news site which gave an FRA such short-shrift only to find a less serious criminal matter given much greater attention – like this account of a reported indecent exposure: http://www.cleveland.police.uk/news/appeals/appeal11062.aspx), they help to keep the public blissfully ignorant of the misdeeds of those women who make FRA’s and of the harm that their innocent victims can, and often do, face.
At least one thing has been made clear though:
There is a good reason why in some places in Asia, birth rates are dropping (Japan, South Korea, Singapore).
If those people at the barnyard chorus are representative,
Asia is a unique flavour of hell for those who unreservedly think they do not have to watch themselves about who they get into relationships with.
Sorry you got hit, slwerner.
And I would also say a big sorry to the men of those 3 countries(and others in Asia which may face such stupidity soon): I do not believe their justice systems are so infallible that there is no need for an Innocence Project there.
But what do I know? Many of those governments look like business-friendly dictatorships to the passing glance.
Good luck talking with them there Zimba: I am seeing that they do not believe any punishment for a false rape accuser is warranted, merely "disclose her name".
Anonymous - ”Sorry you got hit, slwerner.”
If I got hit, I sure didn’t feel it. It seemed like more of a limp-wristed sissy-slap that whiffed.
I did like the way the “conversation” went down though. I pointed out rape shield laws in response to the BS about women getting their sex lives put on public display – so one of the clowns tries to counter with marital rape (supposedly being allowed in Singapore). Then when I pointed out the obvious - that there was no relationship between that lack of a law in Singapore and the functioning of rape shield laws, they tried to claim that they were only talking about Singapore (where they are). But, when I pointed out that the original post drew from the “Slut Walks”, data from the UK and from RAINN in the US, Magical Chicken(sh*t) deleted the post, trying to claim that I had violated their comments policy by using the F-word (which, for the record, was what he posted, not I). My subsequent post with a link to Singapore’s own Rape Shield Laws seemed to vanish without ever posting. Hum? Deleting my post, blocking my posts, and telling me to F’-off sure does seem like a tacit admission that they knew that they could not defend their echo-chamber BS.
That they completely shut up about the BS that women would never lie about rape to the supposed “high price” they would pay, and instead turned their discussion to be about me (and my American arrogance) to me is “mission accomplished”. They can take cheap shots at me all they like, but they obviously understood that they were full of it when trying to discuss rape/FRA issues like rape shield laws. As I suggested to them in the delete post, they had bit-off way more than they could chew.
I bet they won’t try that “social conscious” self-congratulatory back-slapping again, and will probably go back to the barnyard animals they know.
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