The Daily Mail reported recently this sad tale of Lancastrian Bryan Davies who had a heart attack because he was falsely accused of paedophilia. Even the police went to the trouble of sending leaflets to neighbours to say it was not true.
Once again, the power of the false allegation has reared its ugly head and during 2009 it is one trendthat is clearly increasing. These claims are made whether paedophilia and rape, damaging those falsely accused and also damaging those who are genuine victims.
There needs to be tougher sentences and someone such as the Fawcett Society (if they wanted to make a real difference to those poor women who are raped) and others should be speaking out publicly about it. Silence is all we hear.
To be fair tackling the problem of false allegations wouldn't especially help rape victims directly. The whole "makes it harder for real victims to be beleived" is essentially bs and just a feminist tactic of trying to take attention away from the real victims of false accusations - men.
That said, genuine rape victims would benefit indirectly in many ways and to a large extent - more police and court resources, faster responses, more prison places for actual rapists due to less innocent men being locked up etc.
The main concern of the Fawcett Society appers to be the "conviction rate" (though what they actually mean is the attrition rate). There's no doubt that if you could put a stop to 50% of false rape allegations then said attrition rate is going to increase massively.
Posted by: John Kimble | Tuesday, 22 December 2009 at 01:38