Would that be because it's clear Dworkin could squash any man insane enough to try to rape her?
Posted on 08/15/2002 7:09:53 AM PDT by rface
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:07 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
On Monday, residents of Middleborough heard the appalling story of a disabled woman forced into a truck by a stranger in broad daylight outside Dunkin' Donuts, raped, and shoved out the door onto a roadside. Over the next day, alarmed residents called police with tips and earnestly told reporters that this kind of crime simply doesn't happen in Middleborough.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
I think this article is an attempt to portray the woman as a victim of the hand of fate, and that she should be spared any punishment for her awful crime.
You should not bear false witness
Ashland, Missouri
Woman may be charged for filing false rape claim
By Kevin Graham, Globe Correspondent, 8/15/2002
he Plymouth district attorney said yesterday that he is considering criminal charges against a woman who claimed she was abducted in Middleborough and raped, then told police she lied after a sketch of the man she said assaulted her had been released.
Investigators chased leads relentlessly Tuesday after the woman said Monday evening that she had been forced into a pickup truck at a busy intersection shortly after 5 p.m., driven to a secluded area at a nearby MBTA commuter rail station, then raped. But late Tuesday, the 41-year-old Middleborough woman, who walks with a cane and is in the early stages of muscular dystrophy, recanted her story to police.
The man wasn't a stranger but someone she had met several times at the Middleborough Dunkin' Donuts on Main Street, police said. It's unclear how well the two knew each other - she couldn't remember his name, said Police Chief Gary J. Russell.
''She did do a sexual act with him. They took a ride,'' and got into an argument afterward, Russell said Tuesday night while the woman was at the police station giving a written statement.
She said she was raped, Russell said, ''because she got mad at him, but she never intended for it to go this far.''
Although Middleborough police said they won't bring criminal charges against the woman, Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz said his office is considering charging her with filing a false police report, punishable by either up to a year in jail, a $500 fine, or both. Cruz said his office would make a decision by tomorrow.
Russell said the investigation began focusing on the woman late Tuesday when inconsistencies in her story began to surface.
Russell said when asked if she knew the man's name, she first called him ''Ron.'' Later, she began referring to him as ''Rick,'' he said.
''It was believable, but when she started giving details,'' it didn't add up, Russell said. ''A lot of time was wasted, and we're not condoning her actions. ... The bottom line is that everyone in Middleborough knows there's not some crazy guy out there snatching women.''
This story ran on page B5 of the Boston Globe on 8/15/2002.
How about an example? Say in a given city in a given year 100 women are raped and only 10 of them come forward to report it because the others fear the stigma. Say also that there are 10 other women who, for reasons ranging from insanity to vengefulness, decide to falsely accuse men of raping them. What do the statistics turn out to be?
In this case, 50% of the reported rapes are false accusations (a figure I think is probably closer to reality than the FBI's 15%). But of the total rapes that actually occurred, less than 10% are false accusations (10 out of 110 total incidents) which is not so far from the number the feminist groups put forward.
The problem is that Rape Shield laws and other solutions put forward by the feminist groups give immense power to those 10 liars, without doing much of anything to help the 90 women who really were raped but were afraid to report it. Both sets of statistics are "true", as far as they go, but the only just solution is will come about when severe penalties are imposed for lying under oath ("Everybody lies about sex!" says Carville) and courts stop buying into these ludicrous "cry for help" excuses.
That's funny.
At the time, some called the case a variation of Munchausen by Proxy, whereby, instead of bringing glory to herself by inflicting pain on a dependent child and then rescuing him or her, as classic Munchausens do, Dworkin hoped to gain glory by inflicting pain on and then "rescuing" herself, redounding to the everlasting credit of the Dworkin brand of feminism, one which is heavily fortified by an anti-male ideology.
Dworkin's story was basically laughed out of the court of public opinion, and nothing came of it. But I believe the kind of thinking we find in Dworkin's incredibly anti-male writing plays no small role in many of the cases of "factitious disorder" that result in false charges of rape.
So, the Globe should've looked a little deeper. Enough has happened in and near Middleboro so the police would take a claim very seriously. They did a good job quickly sorting this out.
Actually, of the total rapes that actually occurred, 0% are false accusations.
If you're saying 10% of (something) are false accusations, then the (something) has to be accusations. I understand what you're trying to say, but the term "false accusation" has a clear meaning.
Bravo Zulu! As an aside: I'm constantly amazed at men who would want to associate with a sick-o... just because she once smiled at him. (Looking for Love in all the wrong places????)
the bitch should be locked up for twenty years,
or, better yet, just shot ...
You are splitting hairs, but for the sake of argument I'll amend that to read "Of the total incidents (rapes and false accusations, totaling 110)..."
It's true - too many men are complete morons. But a false accusation does not always spring from a consensual encounter with a psycho - many are made up out of thin air.
I agree. I merely think that "discernment" is the most important factor when deciding an association... (Learned about that the hard-way, myself.)
Percentage of false accusations is the percentage of accusations that are false. There is only one way to calculate it.
I think you are trying to compare false positives with false negatives, by the odd method of combining the two. But your result has nothing to do with the well-defined term "false accusations".
I don't believe that 15% is the number "used by the FBI." I think that might be Ms. Barry trying to be helpful.
In C.P. McDowell, & N.S. Hibler, False allegations, Behavioral Science Unit, FBI Academy, Quantico, VA, 1985 they examined 556 cases. They used a very tight criterion for determining that an allegation was false: the accuser herself had to recant the charge and admit that she had made it up. Under that criterion, 27% were found to be fraudulent allegations. They then gave the pile of less certain cases to a panel of three independent investigators. Their conclusion was that 60% of those were false as well.
E.J. Kanin, "False rape allegations." Archives of Sexual Behavior, 23(1) 1994 reports a study done at a university using similar citeria and concludes "false rape allegations constitute 41% of the total forcible rape cases reported during this period." Another done at two midwestern universities found 50%.
Whatever the number is, it is non-zero and large enough to give pause to anyone tempted to jump on every allegation of rape as if it must be true.
Here's another thing the FBI says, on a slightly different aspect of the problem: "Every year since 1989, in about 25 percent of the sexual assault cases referred to the FBI where results could be obtained (primarily by State and local law enforcement), the primary suspect has been excluded by forensic DNA testing."
They also say this:
The fact that these percentages have remained constant for 7 years, and that the National Institute of Justice's informal survey of private laboratories reveals a strikingly similar 26-percent exclusion rate, strongly suggests that postarrest and postconviction DNA exonerations are tied to some strong, underlying systemic problems that generate erroneous accusations and convictions.Would that be because it's clear Dworkin could squash any man insane enough to try to rape her?
I take each case as I find it. Dworkin, one of the ugliest women on the planet, was obviously fantasizing. The men she accused were hapless hotel employees whom she couldn't even prove said hello to her, let alone came to her room and raped her. Also, as I said in the post you cited, Dworkin claimed not to know that the preservation of DNA evidence was vital to the successful prosecution of a rape case, a clear and obvious lie.
The Colorado girl also evoked deep skepticism in me when I first heard about the case. In fact if you find my first two or three posts on the case you'll see I was defending Bryant. I began to turn around as the circumstances surrounding the incident were revealed, most importantly the bruises, but also the brief timespan, certain signals Bryant has given out by his behavior, and several other factors. Put them all together and they don't add up to a consensual romp in the hay.
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