False Accusers / Wrongly Accused

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, ...

Shane Peake Original Article10/16/2013By Morwenna Blake A conman who fooled social services into thinking he was a vulnerable 17-year-old boy before stealing from his foster carers and "destroying" the life of a charity boss with a false allega...

Police say a woman has recanted her claim of being raped by a hitchhiker she picked up in Douglas County on Saturday. The investigation determined the woman's statement couldn't be supported and she then admitted making a false report of the sexual assault, according to a news release from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. The 32-year-old woman originally said she picked up a man who was hitchhiking while she was driving between Arcola and Mattoon Saturday afternoon. According to the sheriff's office, she said she had the man sit in her vehicle's back seat because the front was full packages. Then, she said, he put a rope around her neck and began to strangle her, then ordered her to stop in a location between two grain bins where the attack took place.

A man who spent 20 years in prison before being cleared of rape and murder charges by DNA evidence has won an initial battle in his bid to hold Lake County police and prosecutors financially responsible. Ruling on motions to dismiss Juan Rivera's lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber let almost every allegation in the suit go forward. The ruling allows Rivera to keep trying to hold prosecutors liable for his ordeal. A successful lawsuit against prosecutors is rare because they enjoy broad legal immunity, experts said. Leinenweber also declined to dismiss a defamation claim, meaning authorities could still be liable for publicly insisting on Rivera's guilt even after DNA indicated he didn't kill 11-year-old Holly Staker in Waukegan in 1992. At issue are quotes from police and a prosecutor reported in the media, including an officer's assertion, reported by The New York Times shortly before Rivera was freed, that he was "guilty as the day is long."

Beverly Troupe Original Article10/09/2013By Maurice Chammah One morning in late 1986, Beverly Troupe approached her mother and said she felt a burning sensation when she urinated. This wasn't the first time. LaVern Troupe had taken her 8-year-o...

FORT WORTH - When Ruby Cole Session met with Gov. Rick Perry in April 2009, some people told her it was a waste of time. Her son Tim Cole had been wrongly convicted of sexual assault and died in prison, and there were those who said Perry wouldn't be sympathetic to her cause. But after that first encounter, Mrs. Session was confident that Perry would sign the Tim Cole Act, which compensates wrongly convicted people and also created the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions, which was designed to help reverse other wrongful imprisonments. "My mother said: 'No, no, no. I felt his heart. He'll sign it'," said her son Cory Session of Fort Worth. Mrs. Session died Thursday at her home in Fort Worth of an aneurysm, Cory Session said. Her 77th birthday was Sunday.

Original Article10/10/2013 A teenager has spoken of his nine-month hell in jail awaiting trial after being accused of rape and kidnap. _____ was freed on Tuesday after being cleared by a jury of tying a 16-year-old girl to his bed and attacking ...

Vanessa S. Pierce Original Article10/08/2013 An Alexandria woman who accused another person of rape Monday now is facing a charge of filing a false claim, according to police. Police were called to the 1400 block of Hardtner Street Monday after...

Rachel Ashworth Original ArticleAnd yet another reason the online hit-list should be offline and used by police only, and extortion / mugshot websites should be taken offline and the people in charge arrested.10/07/2013By TOM GARDNER A mother-t...

Video Description: Karen Newirth, a staff attorney from the Innocence Project who focuses on eyewitness identification explains that although witness identification seems to be the gold standard for prosecution, 75% of 300 exonerations the Project...

Original Article10/01/2013A woman who falsely claimed she had been raped in a park in Margate has admitted wasting police time.Charmaine Ripley, 26, of Leslie Avenue, Margate, sparked a large-scale police investigation after claiming she was raped...

Nikita Aitken Original Article 09/17/2013 By KATHRYN CAIN A woman has appeared in court charged with falsely accusing a man of raping and then imprisoning her in her home. Nikita Aitken, 20, of Spenser Road, Bedford, is charged with three counts o... Nikita Aitken Original Article09/17/2013By KATHRYN CAIN A woman has appeared in court charged with falsely accusing a man of raping and then imprisoning her in her home.Nikita Aitken, 20, of Spenser Road, Bedford, is charged with three counts o...

Original Article09/12/2013WHITEFORD - Police in Harford County are investigating a case in which a 40-year-old woman filed an apparent false rape report on Wednesday. At about 2:30 a.m. ET, officers responded to the 1600 block of Main Street in Wh...