False Accusers / Wrongly Accused

The Coalition Against Violence is commending the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary for its handling of a false complaint of sexual assault near the Fluvarium in St. John's. Police sent out an alert about a male suspect in connection with the alleged assault after a woman reported the incident last weekend. However, RNC Const. Steve Curnew said Wednesday that investigating officers determined the assault never happened. Coalition spokesperson Connie Pike said police acted accordingly, given the situation.

For Caleb Warner, weekends still revolve around sports and hanging out with his friends. But life hasn't been so carefree in the four years since he met a young woman. "We met at a party," Warner told America Tonight. "And, I don't know, we just kinda made eye contact. And, you know, one thing led to another." On Dec. 13, 2009, Warner, then a junior at the University of North Dakota, attended a party thrown by his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. There, he met a freshman who caught his eye. They played beer pong in the basement of the fraternity house, later making out. Soon after that, they would head into a side room to have sex. When they were done, Warner says they exchanged numbers and went their separate ways. "I liked her," Warner said. "She was, she was fun. She was a fun person to hang out with."

A 75-year-old yoga teacher, who was accused of raping his disciple for almost an year on the pretext of marrying her, has been acquitted by a Delhi court after the complainant retracted, saying she had filed a false complaint. Additional Sessions Judge Nivedita Anil Sharma acquitted the senior citizen, a resident of west Delhi while observing that the victim had turned hostile and deposed that the accused had never established physical relations with her or promised marriage. "The prosecutrix (girl), has not deposed an iota of evidence of her being raped at all. She has not even mentioned the word 'rape' or any other offence in her evidence nor has deposed anything incriminating against the accused," the court said. The girl deposed in the court that she implicated the man at the behest of another woman named Reena, the whereabouts of who were not known to the police.

Stephen Norley & Lee James Original ArticleThis is more proof of why the online hit-list (registry) should be taken offline and used by police only!10/28/2013BRISTOL - A man wrongly accused of being a pedophile was beaten unconscious, set on fi...

Original ArticleIf he was exonerated, then isn't the crime in which he was accused of off his record? If so, why did the police think he was unregistered when he didn't need to in the first place?10/28/2013By Cynthia Dizikes A man who was exoner...

A 17-year-old girl is expected to be charged with falsifying a police report after investigators say she lied about being abducted and sexually assaulted. According to WISN-TV, the girl initially stated on Sept. 24 she was jogging on Koval Road east of Lyndon Station when she was forced into a silver SUV, taken to a wooded area and sexually assaulted. She said she was taken back to her original location. Investigators said the girl made inconsistent statements in follow-up interviews and admitted Tuesday she made up the story so she wouldn't get in trouble for coming home late after meeting with a boy. The case is one of four cases in Juneau and Sauk counties prompting officials to caution residents about attempted abductions.

Scenes of a Crime Documentary Description: "SCENES OF A CRIME" explores a nearly 10-hour interrogation that culminates in a disputed confession, and an intense, high-profile child murder trial in New York state. The film won an IFP Gotham Indep...

Kirsty Debanks Original Article10/21/2013By Ben Wilkinson A woman jailed for making a false rape claim says the lie cost her "everyone's respect".Kirsty Debanks said she was in a "bad place" when she made the allegation against her boyfriend an...

Original Article10/18/2013A city court has expressed concerns over the growing trend of girls fabricating false rape cases despite having eloped voluntarily with their lovers. Acquitting a man of raping a woman by deceitfully making her believe th...

Hannah Farnsworth Original Article09/18/2013By JAYA NARAIN A junior doctor who claimed she was brutally raped by two men at the hospital where she worked today admitted she lied about the attacks, a medical tribunal was told.Hannah Farnsworth, ...

Original Article06/17/2013By Lisa BensonKSHB - A Missouri man who spent three decades in prison for rape he didn't commit is now a free man. 49 year old [name withheld] convicted in 1984 of rape, sodomy and robbery. He was identified by the rape...

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.

Two Mississippi men spent a combined 30 years in prison for crimes they didn't commit. They were separately charged with sexually assaulting and murdering two 3-year-old girls - in two separate crimes - two years apart. The pathologist who conducted both autopsies said he suspected the girls had been bitten. They were innocent.

Courts and police in the nation's capital will change how they conduct lineups of suspects, when they notify defendants about informants and how long they retain criminal trial records, all in response to errors that have put innocent people in prison.

CLEVELAND - A Cleveland woman who police say falsely accused two Cleveland police officers of sexual assault appeared in a Cuyahoga County courtroom on Friday for a probation violation hearing. During an open container citation on March 7, 23-year-old Danielle Eggleton was arrested on a warrant by two Third District police officers for assault on a police officer, attempted harassment of an inmate and resisting arrest.

A man who may be awarded millions after being wrongfully imprisoned for 27 years is still waiting for a payout, living in a basement suite on old age security and a $49 per month pension cheque. Ivan Henry's civil case has been plagued with delays and is now slated to be heard in September 2014, some five years after Henry, now 66, was let out of jail. "They told us 2012, they told us 2013, and now we're going to 2014," said Tanya Olivares, one of Ivan Henry's daughters. "What's to say that it's not going to be 2017?"

This week's feature tells the story of John Kinsel, a man who will spend the rest of his life locked up at Angola Prison for a crime his accuser has since said he didn't commit. Alyssa Medlin testified as a nine-year-old that Kinsel -- her mother's boyfriend -- had raped her for years. The girl's family didn't believe Medlin, a child with a history of lying. One of her friends had compelling evidence that Medlin had made it all up. But this story wasn't told during the shoddy investigation, and Kinsel was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

A 10-year-old girl asked a jury to believe her claim that she had been raped by a man during a 2011 sleepover even though, the child frankly admitted, she had lied repeatedly in the past about claims that he threatened her life in the assault.

Citing procedural roadblocks in federal law, a federal appeals court panel has ruled it can have no say on whether a man serving life in prison for raping a girl in Jefferson Parish should get a new trial since the victim recanted her claims that the man sexually abused her in the 1990s.

As a conservative, I can appreciate certain Republicans' lack of tact in discussing certain topics. I hate political correctness. But there is a pretty large and, honestly, fair consensus that Republican officials hoping for a future should never, ever, dear God, never talk about rape. That's a bandwagon I can happily jump on. I am not a Republican official, however, so I am going to talk about rape; in particular, false accusations thereof. There is a screenshot on the Internet of a Facebook conversation between two women, Cassandra and Nancy. Here is their conversation (any typos or unnecessary punctuation are their own):