Posted on 10/03/2018 11:12:54 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Difficult to obtain apparently even through a FOIA request, the Air Force commissioned a study of false rape allegations in the 1980s.
Some info I've obtained on it as well as a list of factors suggesting a false allegation:
Charles P. McDowell, based on a study of 1,218 reported rapes on Air Force locations throughout the world during 1980-84. Of the reports, 460 were proven legitimate and 212 false. The remaining 546 were unresolved
Factors:
Physical injuries of false accusers usually are limited to superficial cuts, scratches, and abrasions. Scratches often appear in a hatching or crosshatching pattern, due to repeated attempts to make the scratches visible. Scratches that resemble letters or words sometimes are found on false accusers, typically on their abdomens, but are not found on actual victims.
False accusers frequently claim that they offered vigorous and continuing physical resistance but suffered no serious reprisals. Most actual rape victims do not offer vigorous resistance, and those who do often suffer extremely brutal reprisals
A false accusation typically solves some perceived problem for the victim. It may explain a pregnancy or venereal disease, or it may exact revenge. In contrast, actual rapes seldom appear to solve a problem. They usually create serious problems.
False accusers usually do not make their allegations initially to authorities. Typically they make them to friends or relatives who in turn inform the authorities.
False victims, more often than actual ones, claim to have been raped by strangers.
False accusers, much more often that actual ones, claim to have been attacked by multiple assailants who fit an unsavory stereotype.
False accusers typically claim to have been victims of simple penile insertions, or blitz rapes, without collateral sexual activity.
False accusers tend to be vague on the details, but when a false victim does provide details she tends to do so with a relish that actual victims seldom have.
False accusers, far more frequently than actual victims, cannot say exactly where the rape occurred.
In false accusation cases, far more frequently than in actual cases, the purported crime scene and the physical evidence are found to be inconsistent with the allegation
False accusers, more often than actual victims, claim to have received phone calls from their rapists before or after the crime.
False accusers, more often than actual victims, have personal problems, including difficulty in interpersonal relationships and a history of lying and exaggeration.
CONCLUSIONS
False allegations of rape are frequently not recognized as such by investigators and are almost totally neglected in the professional literature. The reason for this seems obvious, these are acts which are designed to appear plausible. The key to understanding false allegations lies in determining how the false allegation “helps” the claimant manipulate, control or recoup. Therefore, it is the context in which the allegation occurs that provides the framework for understanding the dynamics of the case. It is also important to remember that many of the defense mechanisms used in false allegations may also be found in genuine rapes. A final word of caution: even those who are emotionally prone to make a false allegation can be raped. Basic principles of police professionalism require that officers who investigate rapes remain objective and compassionate, otherwise the veracity of an allegation may never be known.
Sources:
https://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/documents/ilDotsonMcDowell.pdf
http://bobmccarty.com/tag/charles-p-mcdowell/
This echo’s something out last week by a Sex Crimes prosecutor about 10 things that point to a false allegation. They dovetail somewhat but there are still some differences.
Zero consequences for reporting false rapes. If innocent men are caught up in the false report, they receive zero justice.
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Someone close to me was accused of rape. He had never had sex with the person who accused him. She had become pregnant with a boy she had been told not to see anymore (drug dealer) and rather than implicate him told her father she’d been raped. The police questioned the person I know and said they believed him, and added they had already thought that the girl and her boyfriend were both lying. They released this young man without charges, but told him to steer clear of the two troubled acquaintances. This fits the pattern in the article, where rape accusations are used to explain an undesired pregnancy.
So if my math is correct approx. 1/3 of all rape allegations with a determined conclusion in this study were found to be FALSE.....Interesting.
A few years ago, I owned an HVAC company. I had 3-4 guys working for me at any given time. We did residential and commercial service calls and installs.
We were doing a job at a commercial office building. One of the young ladies that worked there went to her manager and accused my best worker; a strong, handsome young fella, of “sexually stalking” her. I had to immediately remove him from that job. Come to find out, she had spoken to him first about maybe going out on a date, and he had totally ignored her with no response whatsoever while continuing to work. She got all wee-wee’d up over it and went to her manager with that accusation. I told the other three guys that IF any of these beotches working there speak to you for any reason, you politely answer them without looking them in the eyes and immediately come to me with it.
My advice to any young man right now....stay to hell away from em. They’re absolutely bat-shite crazy.
I knew a guy about ten years ago who had a cousin in jail charged with rape. He broke up with his girlfriend and a few weeks later she called him up for a ‘booty call’ - just sex, nothing else.
Afterward, she goes to the police. “RAPE!” His DNA, semen, etc. and her word vs. his.
He was in jail on a huge bong and was stuck there until the trial.
I am a female Air Force Veteran. I served from 1973-1982. During that time, I knew of 2 rape claims by Air Force WAF. Both women lived in my barracks. I did not know the first person, but she worked at the same place I did, on a different shift. She claimed rape, and it scared me a lot. But it turned out they knew she didn’t actually get raped because the cuts she had on her body were obviously done with a razor blade instead of the knife she was claiming. Eventually she admitted she had made it up because she wanted out of the service. We were overseas, and she was quickly shipped out, so I don’t know what happened to her. But it was a false claim.
The second one also lived in my barracks. She lived right across the hall from me. I received a call around midnight because on my job, I had access to all the keys for all the barracks and they said a woman was screaming from one of the rooms. I unlocked the door and there was the girl, stark naked, spread eagled, tied to the four posters of the bed with scarves. I and the other women who were there immediately untied her. She claimed she had been raped and told us to call the police. I asked her about an ambulance, and she said, yes, that too. So I called the base operator (prior to 911 calling) and asked for the police and ambulance. It turns out this was fake as well. Of course, there was not DNA because it did not happen. She had managed to tie 3 of the corners and when we untied her, we did not notice that the last one was just wrapped around the post. She faked it. I had believed her, but she lied and faked it. I am now usually skeptical. I know it happens way too often, and in general, I believe the accusers, but I know too many women fake it, and it causes big problems.
Now, THAT is one laid-back jail ...
Bottom line: the man is guilty even if he isn’t. He does not receive justice. The false accuser has NO consequences.
The Air Force stats are mentioned in https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Male-Power-Warren-Farrell/dp/0425181448
Interesting information.
The rate of fake allegations in Title IX proceedings would be good fodder for how the rate of “fake’ reports goes up when the system is designed to “believe the victim” and eliminates due process for the accused.
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