RAPE ANONYMITY: ANOTHER FOUR DESTROYED MEN

This site commented some time ago before the issue of giving anonymity was raised by the Coalition Government that there seemed to be an epidemic of false accusations of rape against men. An issue that can be seen by the constant stories that keep flowing of women being prosecuted for it.

Another one today, this time Leyla Ibrahim was sent to prison for three years for it even going to the trouble of ripping her own clothes (she'll serve 18 months at most).

Now I know that Caroline Flint MP, Harriet Harman MP, Fiona MacTaggart MP, Maria Eagle MP, Louise Bagshawe MP, the Fawcett Society, Women's Aid and all those others who do not believe in equality of justice won't read it or care but this line is simply devastating from the BBC report :

'One man described his ordeal in detention as "torture" while another attempted self harm, the court heard.'  Four men in total were questioned.

Wrose, the Daily Mail reported:

"Another said he was 'devastated' by the harrowing experience and had been unable to eat or sleep, with one suspect complaining: 'We were treated like s*** and not a stint of an apology.'

"A senior police source said the four were still 'really struggling', adding: 'One of them has even had to move out of the area."

Part of the reason they were devastated in such a way is not just is not just because they were accused, it is because they would be named and that the mud would stick forever and their lives ruined.

To those who do not believe the law should be changed, these men are just collateral damage. And in a brilliant article by the False Rape Society, there is a clear reason why. It is supposedly payback time.

Posted by Skimmington

Note: Try not to get too angry when you read Barbara Ellen's comments (2nd story) on the anonymity issue in the Guardian.

Comments

[Jez]

HEADLINE NEWS
Another 10 womens lifes destroyed by rape...
jailed in the last week..
Adam lee Willams - 6yrs
Shaun NcDowell - 8yrs
Jonathan Hambury - pleads guilty
Patrick Davey - 15yr
Alan Harland - life
David Roach - 7yrs
Christpher Hudson - 4yrs
Philips Hopkins - life
Paul Dyne - 8yrs
Richard Harrison- 8yrs

Im sure the victims of this scum felt devastated, couldnt eat or sleep, rape is a worse crime than being accussed of it, these female victims are also collateral damage of websites like this

[paul parmenter]

Jez, women who are raped get massive help, support and compensation. The men who raped them get massive jail sentences. That is how it should be. It is not a problem that needs any fixing.

But men who are falsely accused of rape do not get any help, support or compensation. What they do get is a visit from the police with hostile interviews, searches, fingerprinting and spells in a locked cage. Despite their innocence they get their names splashed across the pages of their local press under the word "rapist", followed swiftly by condemnation and attacks, often physical, from their fellow citizens. They lose their good names, their jobs, sometimes their marriages and their homes. They get driven out of their neighbourhood. Both they and their families go through hell. They have nervous breakdowns. Sometimes they are driven to suicide.

Nobody helps them. Officialdom turns its back. They have to battle even to get a grudging admission from the police that they got it wrong. Apologies are as rare as hen's teeth. The mud sticks for years, maybe for the rest of their lives.

Meanwhile the vile women who laid this horror on them by telling wicked lies get a ridiculously easy ride. The police are disgracefully weak, usually refusing to charge them even with a minor misdemeanour. Look at the notorious case of Gemma Gregory:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-493352/Woman-falsely-cried-rape-EIGHT-times-spared-jail.html

The police knew she was a serial false rape liar, but they let her get away with it time and again because they didn't have the guts to do their job and stop her. In effect she actually had police protection while she continued her trail of lies. She is far from an isolated case. But can you imagine the police allowing a man to commit eight separate rapes and still let him walk free?

So these liars rarely get prosecuted, and if they do they get off with risible sentences. They are unlikely to spend any time in jail. Even when proven guilty they can play the role of victims themselves, and it works a treat. Women's support groups and women's advocates rally round to hold their hands and offer counselling.

This IS a serious problem and it BADLY needs fixing.

There is no "collateral damage" from this website. How can there be collateral damage from the simple truth and the pursuit of justice? But where there is immense collateral damage is from the attitude that women's lives are more important than men's, that only women should ever be allowed to be victims, and that those born with a vagina should be above laws that are vigorously enforced against those born with a penis.

Where do you stand Jez?

[Bob]

"HEADLINE NEWS"...Exactly Jez.

Read some of the stories on the links around you on this site. Did you see those on the news? No? Neither did I. Why?

BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T THERE !!

Stories regarding men just don't get the coverage, so of course if you get your 'news' from mainstream media you'll think that all men do is rape, murder and molest children.

You say rape is a worse crime than being accused of it...so does that mean accused is guilty until proven innocent? Or its ok to falsely accuse? What is your point?

Think of all the men who have committed suicide because of the name and shame policies of the "scum" of the misandrous last government. Innocent until proven guilty? Not likely for a man accused of rape.

This site discuses Feminism and Misandry. There are plenty of women who have had enough of that too. You on the other hand just seem to be anti-male.

[Jen]

If you start with the premise that either of these crimes can be judged as some form of competition on the basis of the level devastation it causes the victim, the argument (as far as I'm concerned) is flawed.

Rape or sexual assualt is devastating to the victim and their family. False accusation of rape or sexual assualt is devastating to the victim and their family. It starts and ends there and one can never diminish or excuse the other.

Genuine victims (male and female) have a hard enough time bringing the perpetrators to justice without these "psychologically impaired" people thinking that they can escape justice or condemnation when they falsely accuse someone of something they haven't done.

The "accused" v the "victim" is the norm in most readers eyes. The "accused" is named. The "victim" is not. If the alleged accuser was offered the same anonymity as the alleged victim it would offer more of a balance but that is not afforded to the person being accused.

It is not a level playing field. It is not a competition and it is a great disservice to genuine victims of either crime to treat it as such.