It’s scarily easy for women to falsely accuse men of rape… and, as you can see, there’s rarely any serious punishment for it. The incentive is definitely there and that’s terrifying
The justice system is so so broken
She’s basically just been told to pay the £200 back and gets very little other punishment. She threatened to ruin this man’s life and ended up severely damaging his mental health, and basically got fuck all at court
So was the guy a weight lifter? She doesn’t seem very light so it’s the only way this false allegation could seem credible….
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I can understand lack of a criminal history being a factor taken into consideration when the judge considered sentencing, but what does lack of sophistication have to to do with anything? Do false rape allegations and blackmail usually have more layers to them, plots twists? Was she blackmailing him via letter rather than email?
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This is life altering allocation for any man that could ruin his life penalties for this should be in years of prison not a slap on a wrist. Rare of not stuff is serious
Because woman, down vote me all you want. Check out the stats of prison time men serve vs women for the same types of crime.
200 Pounds for sleepless nights and a clinical depression? I am not saying we need to pay 2 Millions like in the US, but that seems a bit low.
Totally unfair on him. Had it been the other way around, he would ha e been in jail. He should make an appeal.
Fucking disgraceful. This fucking whale needs to be behind bars. It should be sentenced to the same time as a rape conviction.
The judge wants to lose their job as well.
Further proof that the justice system is an absolute joke. They need to get rid of the current crop of weak, spineless, soft judges and get some growlers in.
This is enough to destroy a man’s reputation, no different from a false molestation accusation to defame somebody as a pedophile… Seriously?
Remember that UK lad that was accused by a woman, he proved himself innocent in court, she (sadly) committed suicide, and a horde of people harrassed him for defending himself?
No one gives a fuck about how life destroying these accusations are.
From that page: “…over a 17 month period in 2011 to 2012 there were only 35 prosecutions for false rape allegations in England and Wales”
Cases like this really annoy me, because they completely skew people’s opinions of what women are like. While these are horrible for the victim, most women are victims of sexual assault by different people and huge numbers of men never get accused of sexual assault or rape even though they have committed those offences.
Equally where someone has been accused of rape, the rapist might well think they haven’t raped someone.
And yes, there are some women who do accuse men of rape maliciously, it’s very difficult to get the balance right, but how do you create a system where women can safely come forwards, because the vast majority of women never do. Of all the times I was sexually assaulted, i never took any action apart from leaving a job. When I was younger my biggest fear would be going forwards, and having someone accuse me of making up lies, because that’s what they would have done. Then I wouldn’t have had enough evidence, lost the case and then etc, etc.
Cases like this make things even worse, because for a real victim they will be accused of faking if they report. Most rapes are not “down the back alley” and therefore they are complicated things. They are based on opinions in the main and he said she said and a very small number of cases end in convictions. Does that mean only a very small number of women are telling the truth? .
These cases are very unusual, yet they do so much damage.
Accusation is as good as evidence in the jury of public opinion women are always the victims.
Let’s face it, genuine victims of rape….I feel for, it must be absolute hell. But it’s women like this that make the conviction rate so low. It is very easy to make an allegation, very difficult to prove either it is a genuine case or a pure lie.
If the ones that are ABSOLUTELY PROVEN as lies were punished properly then in my humble opinion there would be less false allegations, and the proper time and effort could be put into getting convictions on the genuine cases.
Just my thoughts
Missed opportunity to start stamping out false rape allegations before they become a real problem.
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It’s scarily easy for women to falsely accuse men of rape… and, as you can see, there’s rarely any serious punishment for it. The incentive is definitely there and that’s terrifying
The justice system is so so broken
She’s basically just been told to pay the £200 back and gets very little other punishment. She threatened to ruin this man’s life and ended up severely damaging his mental health, and basically got fuck all at court
So was the guy a weight lifter? She doesn’t seem very light so it’s the only way this false allegation could seem credible….
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I can understand lack of a criminal history being a factor taken into consideration when the judge considered sentencing, but what does lack of sophistication have to to do with anything? Do false rape allegations and blackmail usually have more layers to them, plots twists? Was she blackmailing him via letter rather than email?
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This is life altering allocation for any man that could ruin his life penalties for this should be in years of prison not a slap on a wrist. Rare of not stuff is serious
Because woman, down vote me all you want. Check out the stats of prison time men serve vs women for the same types of crime.
200 Pounds for sleepless nights and a clinical depression? I am not saying we need to pay 2 Millions like in the US, but that seems a bit low.
Totally unfair on him. Had it been the other way around, he would ha e been in jail. He should make an appeal.
Fucking disgraceful. This fucking whale needs to be behind bars. It should be sentenced to the same time as a rape conviction.
The judge wants to lose their job as well.
Further proof that the justice system is an absolute joke. They need to get rid of the current crop of weak, spineless, soft judges and get some growlers in.
This is enough to destroy a man’s reputation, no different from a false molestation accusation to defame somebody as a pedophile… Seriously?
Remember that UK lad that was accused by a woman, he proved himself innocent in court, she (sadly) committed suicide, and a horde of people harrassed him for defending himself?
No one gives a fuck about how life destroying these accusations are.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eleanor_de_Freitas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eleanor_de_Freitas)
From that page: “…over a 17 month period in 2011 to 2012 there were only 35 prosecutions for false rape allegations in England and Wales”
Cases like this really annoy me, because they completely skew people’s opinions of what women are like. While these are horrible for the victim, most women are victims of sexual assault by different people and huge numbers of men never get accused of sexual assault or rape even though they have committed those offences.
Equally where someone has been accused of rape, the rapist might well think they haven’t raped someone.
And yes, there are some women who do accuse men of rape maliciously, it’s very difficult to get the balance right, but how do you create a system where women can safely come forwards, because the vast majority of women never do. Of all the times I was sexually assaulted, i never took any action apart from leaving a job. When I was younger my biggest fear would be going forwards, and having someone accuse me of making up lies, because that’s what they would have done. Then I wouldn’t have had enough evidence, lost the case and then etc, etc.
Cases like this make things even worse, because for a real victim they will be accused of faking if they report. Most rapes are not “down the back alley” and therefore they are complicated things. They are based on opinions in the main and he said she said and a very small number of cases end in convictions. Does that mean only a very small number of women are telling the truth? .
These cases are very unusual, yet they do so much damage.
Accusation is as good as evidence in the jury of public opinion women are always the victims.
Let’s face it, genuine victims of rape….I feel for, it must be absolute hell. But it’s women like this that make the conviction rate so low. It is very easy to make an allegation, very difficult to prove either it is a genuine case or a pure lie.
If the ones that are ABSOLUTELY PROVEN as lies were punished properly then in my humble opinion there would be less false allegations, and the proper time and effort could be put into getting convictions on the genuine cases.
Just my thoughts
Missed opportunity to start stamping out false rape allegations before they become a real problem.
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