A British tourist has admitted to falsely accusing a dozen teenage boys of gang raping her in a Cyprus hotel room.
The story is making headlines worldwide and it shouldn’t be.
A story about “false allegations of rape” is the exception not the rule, and it’s giving the rule a bad name.
By reporting on it this sensationally and this much, it’s actually downplaying the rule. It’s giving the exception centre stage and making it seem a lot more common than it is.
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Had these completely innocent men been found guilty of the Heinous lie against them, collectively they faced up to 250 years jail.
The false accuser will most like receive a fine at most. The innocent victims of this matter will have the stigma and trauma with them for the rest of their lives. Genuine victims of sexual assault will find it just that much harder to move their cases forward.
Is this justice?
As for it’s only 5-10% of false reports. Given the catastrophic consequences of an innocent person going to jail for rape, that’s alarming as well. I think if 1 in 20 flights start crashing we’d consider that a crisis. I think if one family in each street was getting sick because of lead in the water pipes, we’d be calling that a crisis, I think if surgeons were performing the wrong operations 5% of the time we’d be alarmed at that as well. Until we see some serious penalties for this behaviour leading to its curtailment we will still have nagging doubts, and naturally so, about any rape trial.
Come on, if DNA tests were only right 9 out of 10 times, no way we’d be able to rely on them as proof beyond reasonable doubt. It’s the same doubt being made here not by men, but by false accusers.
Any potential employer, is going to Google their name.
Not just today, 5 years on, 10 years on - and boom, top result, suspected gang rapist (despite being innocent) is not really something anyone would want on their CV while trying to find work
But the repercussions for a dozen innocent teenagers and their future is the price the author is willing to pay to hang em' out and send a message - what's the term again, collateral damage, expendables?
I'm here mainly to make jokes - but this is so asinine.
I feel asinine that I had to Google the meaning of asinine. As you were....