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Blogs and Websites Devoted to False Rape Accusations are Proliferating

Here at FoundInnocent.org we’ve discovered an important new blog devoted to the plight of men and women falsely accused of rape – The False Rape Society.

The mission of the site is outlined in this quote from the noted defense lawyer and legal scholar, Prof. Alan Dershowitz:

Rape is such a serious crime that deliberately bringing a false accusation of rape should be an equally serious crime and women are not being punished for those crimes. I believe that being falsely accused of rape is as traumatic as being raped.

The False Rape Society poses several important questions:

• Why are feminists, authors and activists, alike, so slow to question the validity of these selfish, heartless false accusers?
• Why is the incidence of false rape accusations going up and up?
• Why are those accused of false rape accusations persistently referred to as “victims” by a mass media that is so easily duped?
• Why are prosecutors (and there are courageous exceptions to this) so reluctant to file charges against those who make false accusations in the first place?
• Why is the mass media so unwilling to follow-up on the stories of men and women who have been falsely accused and who have then gone on to struggle to regain their reputations, peace- of-mind and their careers?

The explanation of the rationale behind this site is one of the most eloquent explanations of the problem that FoundInnocent.org has ever encountered. It is well worth reprinting here for our readers and for all of those “real” victims falsely accused of rape:

This Web site was started by an attorney in the United States to help raise awareness about the serious and largely ignored problem of false rape claims. Every objective study ever conducted on this subject reveals that false rape claims are a significant problem. But despite the grievous harm often suffered by the falsely accused, their unique needs are rarely acknowledged, much less addressed.

As a society, we permit the reputations of persons falsely accused of sex crimes to be destroyed by even baseless accusations of a lone accuser; we permit the presumptively innocent, who too often turn out to be falsely accused, to be arrested and jailed on even far-fetched claims, with bail set sufficiently high to insure they won’t be released before trial; and we excuse false accusers with little or no punishment, inviting others to falsely accuse with impunity and without deterrent.

The unique needs of the falsely accused are ignored because the entire rape milieu has become unnecessarily gender-politicized, and the persons who dominate the public discourse about rape apparently believe that acknowledging the false rape problem would somehow hamper the war on rape.

By any measure, denigrating the experience of the wrongly accused by dismissing them as a myth or as unworthy of our discussion, and regarding the victimization of our daughters as somehow more worthy of our protection than the victimization of our sons, is not merely dishonest but morally grotesque.

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