BBC SUCCEED AGAIN, THIS TIME ON FALSE RAPE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST MEN

Often this site has been critical of the BBC and how they systematically ignore men's issues even when the evidence is staring them in the face.

Last Sunday, they ran an excellent feature on Radio Five Live (see previous post) on male domestic violence victims, now the Radio One (link) 1Extra production team have run a feature on men falsely accused of rape.

It includes a recorded feature as well as copy on their web-site:-

False allegations of rape may make for gripping headlines in the newspapers, but they can also ruin the lives of those men who've been accused despite being innocent.

It explains how the police automatically believe the man is guilty and that according to Home Office research, between 3% and 9% of all reports of rape are found to be false. Yet the lives of those men accused are often devastated. Some even commit suicide, so terrible is the stigma of being charged with sexual assault - even if subsequently cleared.

The most recent case that achieved notoriety was the Warren Blackwell case (link).

Margaret Gardener, the director of the False Allegations Support Organisation (Faso) receives over a thousand calls each year from men looking for help and advice. She is utterly convincing.

There are two problems:-

Firstly, the feminist fundamentalist lobby, having taken over the Government, keep ratcheting up the targets for rape convictions which means that the police in their target driven madness don't care whether a man is innocent or not. To them, he is simply another tick in the box and has to be guilty. There is no such thing in rape cases as innocent before proven guilty when a man is accused of rape.

The second issue is that men who are accused of rape are named, whether innocent or not. This is not equality. Rightly, a woman is not named but a man should only be named if he is found guilty in a court of law. That is equality.

The feminist fundamentalists often say that nothing should happen that would prevent female victims from coming forward and this is right, however, allowing a man to keep his anonynomity unless guilty would not stop women coming forward.

Male anonymity is a key plank in the Manifesto for a Minister for Men (link).

The Government did look at this, but unsurprisingly got beaten down by the fundamentalist lobby, so they have no plans to change the law.

All aside, congratulations to the BBC for making a start on redressing the balance by highlighting two vitally important men's issues.

Comments

[John Kimble]

anyone got the show as an mp3 - realplayer never works

[anon]

Trouble is, how many people listen to 1 Xtra? A couple of thousand? Looks more like a token gesture than anything which is going to have any real effect. Still, I suppose at least it provides some information for those few journalists in the UK who still have an open mind on these matters.

[amfortas]

"The feminist fundamentalists often say that nothing should happen that would prevent female victims from coming forward"

The fierce pursuit of false burglary claimants, false car accident claimants, false robbery claimants, by Insurance Investigators and Police alike, doesn't seem to deter real claimants coming forward.

The Courts deal with thieves such as this every day, handing down jail sentences. People still report real crime.

The ONLY women who would be detered from reporting are the ones who would falsly report.

These are the ones that feminists protect, not real rape victims.