FALSE Accusers & Stats

Misinterpreting College Sex Assault Stats, & Accusers (mostly female) who are charged for intentionally filing a false rape report

SHERIFF: Ohio Anderson HS Female Fabricated Sex Assault Claims Against Male Teacher

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SHERIFF: Ohio Anderson HS Female Fabricated Sex Assault Claims Against Male Teacher

An Anderson High School student fabricated claims that her teacher sexually assaulted her, officials with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office say. A 13-year-old girl falsely claimed that a male teacher grabbed her right arm, unzipped her hoodie and grabbed her breasts, according to a police report. The student told school officials it happened inside the teacher’s classroom during a class break.

But following an investigation, officials with the Sheriff’s Office said there was no wrongdoing, and that the female student made up the entire incident. The falsely accused teacher is cleared to return to teaching after spending two and a half weeks on leave. “Although we’ve had a tough day, we’re all working through it,” Forest Hills Superintendent Scot Prebles said. “The repercussions of this do have long term impact.”

“We have a staff who is jittery right now, because this could be done on any day to any one of us,” Prebles said. “We’re also going to make sure that we are supporting our staff member. We have a staff member who has been hurt by an accusation. It was not an accurate accusation.

angloamerica101 msn.com

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NEW STUDY Shows #MeToo Is Now a Convoluted Catch-22

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NEW STUDY Shows #MeToo Is Now a Convoluted Catch-22

A new workplace study, soon to be published in the journal Organizational Dynamics, finds that following the #MeToo movement, relationships between men and women have shifted considerably. The study essentially concluded that men are reluctant to interact with their female colleagues at work for fear of retribution, even if undeserved. This was predictable, yet some are finding the results difficult to interpret.

The study found that nearly one-third of the men surveyed avoided one-on-one meetings with female co-workers. Twenty-one percent said they would be hesitant to hire a woman for a job that might require regular, close interaction, such as business travel, and nearly the same percentage would be reluctant to hire an attractive woman. Men are avoiding women more in 2019 than they were even a year ago.

Are men just simply unaware of what sexual assault is? Doubtful. Women might be, though. From false rape charges tried in university kangaroo courts to a weird date with a celebrity, women seem to struggle to define what is uncomfortable or a poor choice versus what is assault or rape.

What was once an awkward date, drunken sex, or a bumbling compliment has now all been rolled into the same heinous act and the perpetrators all weighted with the terrible accusations. I wrote back in a 2017 column that it “creates a dynamic where all women are basically victims and all men are near-perpetrators,” and two years later, this study shows it has.

theepochtimes.com-Nicole Russell

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IS YALE More Dangerous than Detroit?

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IS YALE More Dangerous than Detroit?

Few universities have a more troubling record on Title IX matters than Yale. A few months after settling a lawsuit brought by former basketball captain Jack Montague—thereby avoiding trial on a variety of claims, including that the university manipulated its procedures to bring charges against Montague and then found him guilty despite a preponderance of the evidence suggesting otherwise—the university has released its sixteenth semi-annual report of sexual assault allegations among the Yale student body.

As always—if accepted at face value—the data in the report, penned by Stephanie Spangler, indicates an extraordinarily dangerous campus, with a much higher violent crime rate than any of the nation’s most dangerous cities. And, as always, the specifics within the Spangler Report suggest instead a campus motivated by a frenzy to report, with few cases even brought for adjudication in Yale’s notoriously one-sided adjudication system. Spangler explains that her document “uses a more expansive definition of sexual assault” than that offered in state or federal law. She has never provided an explanation as to why Yale has chosen to redefine a commonly-understood term, but the broader definition allows figures that create a greater sense of crisis.

At first blush, the chart suggests a campus awash in violent crime. A closer look, however, shows that formal adjudications of Title IX cases have actually decreased, by a fairly substantial percentage, since 2014. Spangler’s report offers no explanation for this trend, or what it might say about dubious claims being submitted to the Title IX office by accusers who have no intention of moving forward with their claims.

Yale is the only school to provide reports like Spangler’s (thanks to a resolution agreement with the Office for Civil Rights). Over the years, Spangler has removed more and more details from her reports—the documents, for instance, no longer detail third-party reports involving anonymous alleged victims and accused students. But a couple of items from the most recent report do stand out. Minding the Campus has broken down each of the previous Spangler documents.

mindingthecampus– KC Johnson

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U KANSAS Female Student Charged With False Rape Claim. She’s Headed to Trial.

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U KANSAS Female Student Charged With False Rape Claim. She’s Headed to Trial.

A Douglas County judge Thursday denied two motions to dismiss and suppress portions of the case against a KU student accused of falsely reporting a rape to Lawrence police. The case, which was brought in January, will go to trial Oct. 28. The woman faces up to 23 months in prison for three felony counts of making a false report. District Attorney Charles Branson says she fabricated the story out of regret and to get back at her ex-boyfriend. Text messages the female student sent the night of the incident indicated to police that the sex had been consensual.

According to testimony and exhibits in last week’s hearing, the officer asked the woman if she would like to speak about the case. When she asked what he wanted her to say, he gave his opinion on the case and said he hoped for the truth. The woman then said, “this happened,” referring to the alleged sexual assault.

kansascity-K.Bernard    False rape allegations: figuring the figures

 

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COLLEGE FALSE ACCUSATIONS Are Increasing. Cal State Fullerton and University of Kansas. 2 Schools 2 Females. 1 Arrest

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COLLEGE FALSE ACCUSATIONS Are Increasing. Cal State Fullerton and University of Kansas. 2 Schools 2 Females. 1 Arrest

False Accusation made at University of Kansas. A female student at the University of  Kansas told police that she had been raped the day before. She didn’t remember all the details because, she said, she was drunk. She told the officers she didn’t want to press charges but gave them access to her phone. After looking through her phone, police suspected she was not being truthful about the encounter and continued to investigate. Police allege the female had sex with her ex-boyfriend’s best friend to get back at him, but then feared news of the encounter would spread. Furthermore, the detective said the female student “decided to press charges after speaking with the university’s IOA office because she wanted to punish her on-again, off-again boyfriend for having a relationship with another woman at the same time as her,” The police determined she had lied and arrested her for falsely reporting a felony crime.  dailywire-Ashe Schow

False Accusation made at Cal State Fullerton. A female student who reported being raped in a Cal State Fullerton parking garage elevator was not attacked on campus. Police said the student had been on campus on Tuesday, when the alleged attack was reported to have occurred shortly after midnight, but investigators did not find anything in the surveillance footage consistent with the student’s report that it happened in a university elevator. “After further investigation, it was discovered that the reported incident did not occur at Cal State Fullerton,” Chief Aguirre said. When investigators found inconsistencies in the student’s  report, they interviewed her again and she told them that the rape did not happen on campus. ktla

Read False rape allegations: figuring the figures

 

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LIFE INSIDE the Title IX Pressure Cooker

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LIFE INSIDE the Title IX Pressure Cooker

While SOS is hesitant to post this article, some readers might be interested. Personally, the article reminds me of a Title IX hearing. The article, like a Title IX hearing, is pro-accuser, and anti-due process. There is little mention about students who are Title IX falsely accused. Still, some readers might be interested to read about the highly stressful work of a Title IX agent, their lack of training and constant turn over, complete with statistics.   Article excerpts are below, followed by a link to the article.

Nationwide, Title IX administrators who are in charge of dealing with campus sexual assault and harassment are turning over fast. Many colleges have had three, four, or even five different Title IX coordinators in the recent era of heightened enforcement, which began eight years ago. Two-thirds of Title IX coordinators say they’ve been in their jobs for less than three years, according to a 2018 survey by ATIXA.

The Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed three dozen current and former administrators to find out what’s behind the churn. Many of them were reluctant to speak on the record, fearing retaliation, legal action, or the prospect of torpedoing future career opportunities. They painted a picture of a profession that is constantly under the gun: One whose internal and external pressures threaten to cloud sound decision-making. The Title IX enforcers described living in a constant state of uncertainty, in which new federal guidance, state laws, or court rulings could abruptly upend the status quo.

Accused students have said they were punished with little evidence and not given a fair shake. They’ve said they didn’t get the same rights as alleged victims, like access to all of the evidence against them, and were asked questions during investigations and hearings that presumed their guilt. Andrew T. Miltenberg, a lawyer who has advised many students accused of sexual assault, said some Title IX officials are blatant in their dismissive treatment of men who face sexual-assault accusations. “They’re dogmatic in their belief that no one would ever make up these allegations,” he said. He’s seen cases where “huge swaths of the accused’s narrative” are omitted from the final investigative report.

Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education, has also described what she sees as the failures of campus Title IX proceedings. She’s sought to bolster the rights of the accused through her proposed Title IX regulations, which would make campus sexual-assault procedures more legalistic, requiring live hearings and cross examination. Other critics, including defense lawyers and opinion columnists, frame Title IX systems as “kangaroo courts” and question whether colleges should handle these cases at all. As a result, the narrative about Title IX administrators is often that they don’t do their jobs very well.

Life Inside the Title IX Pressure Cooker-Sarah Brown

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NEW REPORT By Behavioral Neuroscientists. Trauma-Informed Methods ‘Increase Possibility of False Memories’. Leads to False Accusations.

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NEW REPORT By Behavioral Neuroscientists. Trauma-Informed Methods ‘Increase Possibility of False Memories’. Leads to False Accusations.

A new Center for Prosecutor Integrity report documents factual errors and faulty conclusions contained in a 2019 bulletin published by End Violence Against Women International. The new CPI report was researched and written by behavioral neuroscientists Sujeeta Bhatt, PhD and Susan Brandon, PhD.

Trauma-informed” proponents claim that persons who experience sexual assault are unable to accurately recall the incident, and that inconsistencies in their accounts should be taken as proof that the assault occurred. But citing numerous studies, Bhatt and Brandon reject this theory, concluding, “The impacts of trauma on memories and recall are widely variable. The stress accompanying and resulting from trauma may produce strong memories, impair memories, have no effect on memories, or increase the possibility of false memories.”

Bhatt and Brandon argue that criminal investigators do not need to use special interview methods with purported trauma victims: “Examination of studies across these domains did not reveal any evidence to support the notion that victims of potentially traumatic events require interview methods that are different from those that have been shown to be most effective for accounts of events that are presumably not traumatic.”

Their critique is more fundamental, saying an “undue emphasis on brain science increases the likelihood of hindering an investigation” because it can promote confirmation bias and undue stereotypes.

Separately, the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) recently published a Position Paper on “Trauma-Informed Training and Neurobiology of Trauma” that sharply criticizes the assumptions, precepts, and methods of trauma-informed advocates.

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NEW DATA SHOWS Secretary DeVos’ Reforms to OCR are Driving Better Results for Students

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NEW DATA SHOWS Secretary DeVos’ Reforms to OCR are Driving Better Results for Students

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Education released new data that show students who file civil rights complaints under U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ leadership are served more efficiently and effectively than students who filed civil rights complaints during the previous administration. In fact, OCR has, on average, resolved almost double the number of civil rights complaints per year compared to the prior eight fiscal years. Additionally, OCR has achieved a 60% increase in the number of complaint resolutions that required schools to make changes to protect students’ civil rights.

“From day one, our approach has been clear and unwavering: vigorously enforce civil rights laws, treat students as individuals, and resolve cases both efficiently and effectively,” said Secretary DeVos. “The backlog of cases we inherited should have troubled everyone, as we know justice delayed is justice denied. While many have tried to distort the nature of our approach, the numbers don’t lie. Our approach has been more effective at supporting students and delivering meaningful results.”

“We are reorienting OCR to a neutral, impartial law enforcement agency and that is having tremendous, positive impacts on America’s students and their families,” said Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kenneth L. Marcus. “Instead of seeing every case as an opportunity to advance a political agenda, we are focused on the needs of each individual student and on faithfully executing the laws. This is the right thing to do, and the data show it works.”

www.ed.gov– Press Office

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VICTIMS OF False Accusations of Rape Need to Be Heard as False Accusations Are Increasing

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VICTIMS OF False Accusations of Rape Need to Be Heard as False Accusations Are Increasing

False accusations ruin lives and bring indescribable heartache. We hear a lot about sexual assault victims, but rarely do we hear of the injustices and pain endured by those falsely accused of such crimes, the silent sufferers of cruelty and malice. We’ve heard such cases shrugged off by the media as they claim that only 2 percent of rape allegations are false, but Brent Turvey, an expert in criminal law, disagrees. In his 2017 book on the topic, he cited research, police reports, and studies to show that the number is much higher. One study even had false “sexual assault” allegations as high as 40 percent. Turvey wrote that in the 1990s, the FBI registered false accusations of “rape or attempted rape” at 8 percent. As cited in the Washington Examiner,

“There is no shortage of politicians, victims’ advocates and news articles claiming that the nationwide false report for rape and sexual assault is almost nonexistent, presenting a figure of around 2 percent,” writes  Mr. Turvey, who directs the Forensic Criminology Institute. “This figure is not only inaccurate, but also it has no basis in reality. Reporting it publicly as a valid frequency rate with any empirical basis is either scientifically negligent or fraudulent.” 

One man who was falsely accused of rape told me he felt hopeless after being grilled by the police: “I left the station in emotional shambles. In the following days my depression sunk to depths as far as considering taking my own life. This was something I was completely innocent of, yet my life was about to be ruined.” Another man said he felt shut down, defenseless before a false accusation of rape: “Aside from the right to make a statement, I was denied all of my legal rights—my employer lied about it, broke laws, and threw me out the door. Feminists claim employers don’t take allegations seriously. They’re lying. I attempted suicide and spent a week hospitalized.”

35 Proven College False Allegations

Listening to people claim that women just need to be believed is not just silly, it’s dangerous. Ask the Duke Lacrosse team. Listening to people claim that women (or men for that matter) don’t lie about such things is such a lie in and of itself that should be patently obvious.”

pjmedia– D.C. McAllister  Why Women Make False Rape Accusations, By Feminist Megan Holstein 

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FINALLY HOLDING Accusers Accountable. Alabama Bill Aims To Punish False Accusations Of Rape.

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FINALLY HOLDING Accusers Accountable. Alabama Bill Aims To Punish False Accusations Of Rape.

In the age of #MeToo, we’re supposed to believe all women when they make accusations of a sexual nature, but as I have shown time and time and time again, that is simply not true. Even when an accusation is proven to be false, via text or video evidence, the false accuser faces little to no consequences. Certainly far fewer consequences than the person falsely accused faces. Alabama State Rep. E. Richard “Dickie” Drake (R-Leeds) is trying to change that. Earlier this month, Drake introduced AL HB544, a bill that would punish false accusations of sexual crime. Drake’s bill would make it a Class C felony to “willfully, knowingly, and with malicious intent,” make “a false report of rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, or sexual torture.” The allegations would need to be proven false in order for the accuser to be punished.  Drake introduced the bill after his friend’s ex-wife falsely accused him of child sexual abuse. “If they make an accusation, they better make sure it’s true and make them think twice before they make a false accusation.”

Despite the media’s false reporting, Drake’s bill is not about keeping victims from coming forward. “I want victims to come forward with sexual allegations,” he said. “I’m just trying to stop the false accusations that ruin lives.” AL.com repeated the misleading statistic that just 2% to 10% of accusations are false. As I have written several times previously, this statistic only applies to accusations that are proven false. Since it is difficult to prove a negative, this is a rare occurrence. The remaining 90% to 98% are not “true,” however. In fact, just 3% to 5% go to trial and result in a guilty finding, so using the same logic used to claim few accusations are false, one could claim on 3% to 5% are true. Everything in between is questionable. There are reports that are “baseless” or wrongly reported and those that lack evidence for an arrest. There are reports that don’t result in a trial (dismissed or pleaded) and those that go to trial but are found not guilty.

Drake said that his bill would not punish accusers just because the accused was found “not guilty.” A person would only be charged if their accusation was proven false and made “willingly, knowingly, and with malicious intent.”  “It’s going to be hard to prove that, and I know that, but I know there are cases that were proven untrue.”  As examples, he listed The Scottsboro Boys (he is from Alabama, after all), the Duke Lacrosse rape hoax, and Brian Banks.

dailywire– Ashe Schow

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