sinister agent wrote:
Mmm. False accusations of rape really piss me off (fortunately it's not happened to me or anyone I know, or I suspect it'd make me extremely angry). Not only do they fuck up innocent lives, but they trivialise the ordeal of people who really are raped.
One of my wife's flatmates at university falsley accused a bloke of rape. The guy was cleared after they'd all left university (but not before his life was completely ruined for a good long while), and the police became very aware she'd deliberately made it all up - not least because my wife and the other flatmates could all testify (when the police finally got around to asking them) to her having sounded quite happy about it at the time and going on about it in the morning as it had been her first time.
The reason she did it? She was heading towards getting a third in her law degree, and the university bumped her up to a 2:1 due to the trauma she claimed she'd been through. And she was a bit mental as well, to be honest.
She's now a practising barrister, FFS.
It's a shame not just for the bloke who has his name dragged through the mud but because this sort of thing really makes it more difficult for the many may genuine victims.
How's about anonymity for the accused until they're found guilty, eh?