Posted on 06/25/2019 12:58:32 PM PDT by Mount Athos
False allegations of rape are believed to be more common than many persons realize. These are the findings of four research studies:
A review of 556 rape accusations filed against Air Force personnel found that 27% of women later recanted. Then 25 criteria were developed based on the profile of those women, and then submitted to three independent reviewers to review the remaining cases. If all three reviewers deemed the allegation was false, it was categorized as false. As a result, 60% of all allegations were found to be false.1 Of those women who later recanted, many didn't admit the allegation was false until just before taking a polygraph test. Others admitted it was false only after having failed a polygraph test.2 In a nine-year study of 109 rapes reported to the police in a Midwestern city, Purdue sociologist Eugene J. Kanin reported that in 41% of the cases the complainants eventually admitted that no rape had occurred.3 In a follow-up study of rape claims filed over a three-year period at two large Midwestern universities, Kanin found that of 64 rape cases, 50% turned out to be false.4 Among the false charges, 53% of the women admitted they filed the false claim as an alibi.5 According to a 1996 Department of Justice report, “in about 25% of the sexual assault cases referred to the FBI, ... the primary suspect has been excluded by forensic DNA testing.6 It should be noted that rape involves a forcible and non-consensual act, and a DNA match alone does not prove that rape occurred. So the 25% figure substantially underestimates the true extent of false allegations. And according to former Colorado prosecutor Craig Silverman, “For 16 years, I was a kick-ass prosecutor who made most of my reputation vigorously prosecuting rapists. ... I was amazed to see all the false rape allegations that were made to the Denver Police Department. ... A command officer in the Denver Police sex assaults unit recently told me he placed the false rape numbers at approximately 45%.”7
According to the FBI, about 95,000 forcible rapes were reported in 2004.8 Based on the statements and studies cited above, some 47,000 American men are falsely accused of rape each year. These men are disproportionately African-American.9
Some of these men are wrongly convicted, sentenced, and imprisoned. Even if there is no conviction, a false allegation of rape can “emotionally, socially, and economically destroy a person.”10
1 McDowell CP. False allegations. Forensic Science Digest, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 1985
2 Ibid.
3 Kanin EJ. An alarming national trend: False rape allegations. Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1994 http://www.sexcriminals.com/library/doc-1002-1.pdf
4 Ibid., p. 2, Kanin reports that in the city studied, "for a declaration of false charge to be made, the complainant must admit that no rape had occurred. ... The police department will not declare a rape charge as false when the complainant, for whatever reason, fails to pursue the charge or cooperate on the case, regardless how much doubt the police may have regarding the validity of the charge. In short, these cases are declared false only because the complainant admitted they are false. ... Thus, the rape complainants referred to in this paper are for completed forcible rapes only. The foregoing leaves us with a certain confidence that cases declared false by this police agency are indeed a reasonable -- if not a minimal -- reflection of false rape allegations made to this agency, especially when one considers that a finding of false allegation is totally dependent upon the recantation of the rape charge."
5 Ibid., Addenda.
6 Connors E, Lundregan T, Miller N, McEwen T. Convicted by juries, exonerated by science: Case studies in the use of DNA evidence to establish innocence after trial. June 1996 http://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/dnaevid.txt
7 http://web.archive.org/web/20050404230831/http://www.thedenverchannel.com/kobebryanttrial/2812198/detail.html
8 Federal Bureau of Investigation. Forcible rape. February 17, 2006. http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/offenses_reported/violent_crime/forcible_rape.html
9 Innocence Project: Facts on post-conviction DNA exonerations. http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/351.php
10 Angelucci M, Sacks G. Research shows false allegations of rape common. Los Angeles Daily Journal, Sept. 15, 2004. http://www.glennsacks.com/research_shows_false.htm
The way courts are skewed it would never happen. After all she has a vagina.
Just curious. Would that apply to allegations of the sexual abuse of minors, too?
Very well said. It sickens me that any woman would do this, as those women who are raped suffer immensely and false accusations only make it harder for them not to be treated as if “she deserved it”.
Unless she was a good Christian woman or had a rape kit done, I would be predisposed to not believe her. And if she is a feminazie, she has no credibility.
¡ racist !
Check out a movie called Rosewood
Exception for sexually abused children?
I would think it’s more than 50% that are false. For women today there are a lot of benefits that can be had from false rape accusations and rarely do they suffer any consequences.
Have seen that movie but cannot remember anything about it. Will have to re-visit that one.
Scottsboro is about 70 miles from where I live and I dated a girl from there in my college days.
Boy are the feminazis’ claws going to come out over this.
I know a few career cops who have said the same thing.
Sad thing is, decent women who are raped are suspected during the investigation.
There was a woman here who used to say that if a woman made a charge, it was 100% true every time. (after all, why would they lie) I tried to explain that wasn’t true without much success.
My policy is that if a woman is caught lying, she should do the sentence that the man would have been stuck with if he had been found guilty.
I think that false accusers should also be required to be registered on the sex offenders registry for life.
The more shocking and absurd the accusation is the better. Rape used to be the most falsely accused crime out there but now false hate crime accusations are gaining fast.
I wonder who is doing the majority of the accusing, black women or white women?
the above article is one big long complex explanation of something except they want to make women who are raped feel even less likely to report it.....
I am absolutely for prosecution if someone accuses another of a crime that did not happen....
"did not happen" being the operative words because many times a crime was committed but the female will not pursue it because of the totally onerous "justice" system that makes victims pay twice...
#YouToo
That's a pleasant fantasy, but American prosecutors strongly disagree with you. Last time I checked, the average sentence for a man convicted of raping a woman was about eight years, and the average time served was about five years.
Women convicted of lying about being raped receive MUCH shorter sentences on the rare occasions when they are tried at all. I have never seen a study, but my impression from reading news reports is that sentences rarely go beyond one year, long on community service and receiving counseling, short on incarceration. Crystal Gail Mangum, the false accuser behind the Duke lacross scandal, was never even charged, though she was obviously guilty.
Usually, the false-accusing woman is treated as a victim deserving sympathy, not a criminal. In the case of Jackie Coakley of Rolling Stone - UVa fame, most media outlets declined to release her name. The poor dear had to be protected even after she had been proved a liar.
In my personal life I have encountered two instances of false accusation of rape. I wasn't the one accused, but in both cases I knew the accusations were false. In one case, the woman threatened the man after consensual sex. She said she would accuse him of rape unless he did something she wanted done. He declined. (Unfortunately, I had to listen to the whole thing through the thin walls of the cheap room I was renting.) In the other, the woman simply wanted attention and sympathy, and she calculated correctly that she could obtain both without consequence if she lied. I overheard her talking about the incident in public for several days, repeatedly naming her supposed attempted rapist. I knew her well enough to privately ask her for details, and she admitted that all that had happened was that the guy angrily pushed her away from him and onto a bed. That was it. There was no sexual touching, and they both stayed fully clothed. She just made him momentarily lose his temper, something she was good at. However, the truth did not provide a good story for her to tell.
Fortunately, in neither case did the woman file a police complaint.
I did receive one personal false-accusation threat. A young woman said she would tell police that I had tried to "molest" her, after I objected to her walking with a very loud boom box through a quiet residential neighborhood. Molestation is not quite rape, but she impressed me with the speed with which she came up with the false accusation. It took her about two seconds after I asked her to turn down the volume.
So, does objecting to false accusations of rape somehow endorse actual rape? Of course not. They are both serious crimes, only one of which is taken seriously in America.
Thank you. It’s just a modern version of the old story of crying “wolf!” When half the population of a given group constantly shouts “wolf!” at every opportunity, it makes it really difficult for the others to get the deserved attention when a real wolf shows up.
That would unfortunately discourage many rape victims from pressing charges.
When I was in high school a girl accused two boys of rape. I was shocked because I knew one of the boys and he was very nice. I had no idea anyone would claim something like that if it wasn’t true. I didn’t know what to think. My mother told me what she usually told me about issues with others “stay out of it” so I did. I didn’t take either side, and before it went to trial she said it didn’t happen. No idea why she would do that.
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