Poll: What should the prison sentence be for someone who makes a false accusation of rape? You can answer the poll at https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2017/12/18/false-accusation-of-rape/A false accusation of rape can cost an innocent person their education, their job, and their reputation. It can force them to spend years in prison. It can ruin their life. In addition, every false accusation of rape potentially gives ammunition to people who might want to falsely argue that other accusations or rape – ones in which a rape really did take place – are false. It’s also a waste of the taxpayers’ money.