Posted on 10/24/2013 3:27:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sophomore Rachel Cassidy's photo, address and phone number have been published by a group called the Crimes Against Fathers, which claims she is the woman in the viral video and that she falsely accused a man of rape — but school officials tell another story.
An Ohio University student has gone into hiding after being falsely identified as the woman who cried rape after being filmed in a public sex act with a man near the university's campus, police and school officials say.
Sophomore Rachel Cassidy is seeking help from Athens police after her photos, home address, phone number and links to her social media accounts were flaunted on a website calling her a "liar" and "false rape accuser."
That website, Crimes Against Fathers, which since the Oct. 12 act's filming has spearheaded a witch hunt for "the evil woman" behind the rape report, claims it is Cassidy and wants the public to know exactly how to contact her.
"I believe that it is VERY likely Rachel Cassidy is the woman in the now viral video," Peter Nolan, the controversial website’s “name and shame” henchman told the Daily News in an email from Germany Thursday.
“There are a great deal of similarity in looks between the woman in the video/photos and Rachel Cassidy,” he wrote.
On his page he posts a link to the sex scene — which he describes as “very clear that it was fully VOLUNTARY” — but acknowledges having no evidence of the woman being Cassidy outside of her physical resemblance
The university's Dean of Students Jenny Hall-Jones has since come forward, however, saying they know the identity of the woman filmed, and it's not Cassidy.
An Athens police report filed by Cassidy on Oct. 16 also identifies her by police as "not the victim of the referenced sexual assault."
Police tell the Daily News the assault is still under investigation and has not resulted in a formal charge of rape or filing a false rape report.
Nolan is not convinced.
"The University of Ohio and the local police are not credible sources of information. The police are the LAST people I would trust for passing out information," he replied to their claim.
"What would be credible information," he argued, "is for the woman who made the false rape allegation to be named, her photograph released to the public for comparison to the video, and for those who witnessed the event to sign affidavits under oath that the woman they saw at the incident is the woman who now admits that she made the false rape allegation."
Cassidy, in a recent interview with her school paper, said that she was at her sorority house on the night the video was filmed — and it was only until Oct. 16, four days later, that a friend told her about the disturbing accusations against her swirling on the Web.
She has since been excused from attending classes and claims to have not left her sorority house out of fear.
"The public has a right to know who the criminals who live among them are," Nolan stated of his choice to air her home address and other information.
"We insist that if men who are rapists are put on sex offender registries then women who make false rape allegations are also published to public registries," he said of his belief.
As of Thursday, the rape report filed by the unidentified female on Oct. 13 has not resulted in a formal charge of rape or a charge of filing a false rape report according to police. The report investigation is ongoing.
Still, even if it the woman filmed in the video isn't Cassidy, Nolan said he'd have no regrets.
"I have committed no crime. I have not acted in any way dis-honestly or dis-honourably. So no apology is necessary," he wrote.
Further defending himself, in a Skype interview with BuzzFeed Nolan said that if Cassidy is being wrongly accused and harms herself over resulting cruelty, he'll still have no regrets.
"If Rachel Cassidy goes out tomorrow and buys a gun and blows her head off that's not a problem for me. I'm prepared to say that in the public," he said.
As Nolan reveals, it’s his own personal pain from the end of a failed marriage that constitutes his justification for holding the reputation of women like Cassidy hostage – even before found guilty of their accused crimes.
"If I am given the protection of the law, meaning remedy, for the perjury and slander I have suffered these last 6 years, then I would be most delighted to give Rachel Cassidy USD10,000 if she turns out not to the woman in question," he wrote.
Nolan claims that in addition to being perjured and slandered by his ex-wife, his personal details were published online and his house and children were taken from him before being abused.
"So, by the law of 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you' I am reflecting back the treatment I, and many millions of other men, have received in our society back at this one woman," he states.
Since the creation of his website he boasts having “named and shamed more than 250 women over the last few years.”
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Might want to revisit your post.
http://thelamron.com/2013/10/24/getting-consent-implication-enough
BTW, this is another place I'm scratching off the list for my daughter's upcoming higher education.
to this young woman....SUE!
there are no formal charges yet...none...this guy is looney tunes....
If the girl has any amount of alcohol in her, she can cry rape after the fact, no matter how enthusiastically she participated at the time.
Yet, if the guy is completely drunk, he is still held completely responsible for his actions.
Yes, I understand the law, and the law is an ass.
Parents should also scratch that college off the list for any sons who they do not wish stuck with false rape charges.
We need a new term for "intoxicated sex" (like "intoxicated sex"), and leave "rape" for cases where the girl was made to submit by force or explicit threat of violence.
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