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Upton

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11. I keep reading how this stuff hardly ever happens..

Reply to ProudToBeBlueInRhody (Original post)

Thu Sep 5, 2013, 09:55 PM

Sep 2013

but then you go and do a search on "false rape allegations" or some variation thereof..and you get some interesting hits..cases like Tawana Brawley come up, Brian Banks (who spent 5 years in prison and lost his pro football career), or this woman in the UK who actually falsely accused 5 ex boyfriends of rape before she was finally found out and ended up getting 2 years herself..

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/brian-banks-accuser-ordered-pay-2-6-million-163746471.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2358759/Leanne-Black-finally-jailed-FIVE-false-rape-allegations-ex-boyfriends-years.html

Again, I keep hearing how this virtually never occurs, but the evidence would at least suggest it happens more than some advocacy groups would have us believe. The stories up above stand out because they involve celebrity, absurdity in one case, and finally exoneration, but one has to wonder..how many men are sitting in prison right now accused and then convicted of sex crimes who are just as innocent?

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Daughter: I lied and sent my dad to prison for rape [View all] ProudToBeBlueInRhody Aug 2013 OP

Actually it is too late to "right" that wrong. nt Bonobo Aug 2013 #1

I'll think I've heard it all, and then I'll read something like this. Absolutely sickening! radicalliberal Aug 2013 #2

Actually, even the majority of sex offenders complete their sentences relatively unharmed. nomorenomore08 Aug 2013 #6

I agree with you about not being big on vigilantism. radicalliberal Aug 2013 #9

I found it odd that the mother couldn't explain herself. Inkfreak Aug 2013 #3

Charade Kelly: You fucked up REAL rape victims with your stupid shit. alp227 Aug 2013 #4

So... opiate69 Aug 2013 #5

I understand where he's coming from though. Because this has the potential to do harm nomorenomore08 Aug 2013 #7

For the record, I get what you were saying. I don't think you were at all trivializing nomorenomore08 Sep 2013 #10

So the mother put her up to it? I'd probably be PPR'd if I said what I thought of that woman. nomorenomore08 Aug 2013 #8

I keep reading how this stuff hardly ever happens.. Upton Sep 2013 #11

Someone intimated the other day, to paraphrase, "it's (not) a big deal". ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2013 #12