and for those interested, you can find the report HERE
Just in case any dudebros are unclear on what this means: it means that your buddy who totally just had some bitch trying to ruin his life by accusing him of rape…almost certainly actually did rape her.
Just keep that in mind.
Yeah man, imagine that, bitches don’t be lying.
Can we put this into context? It means that 99.4% of rape allegations are true.
It means that 99.4% of rape allegations are true.
When you read through and learn about those 0.6% who did make false allegations, there are some seriously important things to note. Firstly :
“Furthermore, the report shows that a significant number of these cases involved young, often vulnerable people. About half of the cases involved people aged 21 years old and under, and some involved people with mental health difficulties. In some cases, the person alleged to have made the false report had undoubtedly been the victim of some kind of offence (sic), even if not the one which he or she had reported.”And then, when you get into the case studies you find things like a 14 year old girl sleeping with an 18 year old. When discovered, she claimed the sex was non-consensual in fear of her father’s disapproval, but investigation of texts and emails found that to be untrue. THAT SAID, the 18 year old was found to have a history of pursuing and seducing many very young girls, and once he was counseled he expressed not only regret over his actions, but the knowledge that he waspurposefully picking vulnerable girls who could be easily manipulated into consent.Another case was a married couple, where the wife claimed rape and domestic violence, so the husband was arrested and held. After some contact between the two while he was incarcerated, she went back to him and wanted the charges dropped. It’s okay because she still loves him. When the DA decided to keep going, she suddenly said that she made it up and he never raped her at all.
Further counseling revealed that the allegations were true, but she didn’t want to be without him so she lied about the allegations being false.
I don’t know about you, but this kind of sounds like classic domestic violence, and the kind of patterns you get into after living with an abuser.The point I’m trying to make is that even though there are 0.6% false claims… when you break them down you find that there’s generally a lot of skeevy shit going on, and like the above quote, many of the alleged rape victims are actual victims of other abuses. For some of them, I’m guessing that an allegation of rape was the only way to bring enough attention to their abuse to finally get protection by law enforcement, or enough care from family to be freed from their abusive situations and moved somewhere safe. Some are mentally ill and have been taken advantage of, or are victims of statutory rape because they are not even remotely mature enough to truly consent to a sexual relationship with an adult.
These cases aren’t just as simple as, “some bitch regretted sex and cried rape”.Yeah. About the only people who make actual false accusations are 1) that time some MRAs flooded a college’s anonymous reporting system with false reports, 2) antis and other bigots who want to smear the group they hate (fave tactic of lynch mobs) and in modern times often can never produce an actual “victim” so they pretty much never bother with the authorities except for sometimes falls CP reports, and 3) the fucking “”“Veritas Project,”“” which was literally trying to manipulate an election.
I don’t doubt that false accusations ruin lives, and I think we should especially be on the lookout for them lately, given that a lot of people are making accusations right now and there’s always the potential for a real problem to morph slowly into a moral panic.
But… the prevalence of data like this is why I still think this is a problem.
This looked sketchy, because the numbers were far lower than the numbers I’d seen on other reports. So I read the article until I came to where they got the 0.6 percent figure from:
“In the period of the review, there were 5,651 prosecutions for rape and 111,891 for domestic violence. During the same period there were 35 prosecutions for making false allegations of rape, six for making false allegation of domestic violence and three for making false allegations of both rape and domestic violence.”
This isn’t measuring the percentage of rape accusations which are false. This is measuring how often false accusations are prosecuted, relative to how often rape is prosecuted.
Recognizing that rape victims can be silenced is very important, BUT so is critical thinking and reading data associated with a study properly.
This study is focused on cases that faced prosecution at TRIAL, meaning that the state believed they had enough evidence to convict the accused using the standard “beyond all reasonable doubt”. The state will NOT go to trial if they don’t think they can convict the accused, no one has time or money to send every single case to trial.
This means that OF COURSE these numbers come up this way. The state cherry picked the cases they thought they would win.
Penhales 