Minneapolis women’s groups are outraged that a woman who made a false accusation of rape is being charged. The incident is a nice example of the feminist view of female entitlement.
If there’s any outrage here, it shouldn’t be that she’s being charged, but that she’s only being charged with filing a false police misconduct report. She should be charged with something carrying a sentence approximating what the falsely charged police officer would have received had he been convicted. The fact that she committed this horrible crime (assuming she’s guilty and is convicted) and will get off with hardly any punishment is the real outrage.
The story is below. To learn more about the problem of false allegations of rape, see my co-authored column Research Shows False Accusations of Rape Common (Los Angeles Daily Journal, 9/15/04). Thanks to Justin, a reader, for sending me the article.
Woman who claims she was raped by police is charged
By David Chanen
Minneapolis Star Tribune (7/7/07)
A 21-year-old woman alleged on July 28 that two Minneapolis police officers sexually assaulted her minutes after they had previous contact with her on a disturbance call. She immediately went to the hospital for an exam and filed a police report.
The Police Department investigation began immediately as required by department policy. Two internal affairs sergeants went to the hospital and took a recorded statement from her. Possible evidence was examined, including the GPS system in the squad car.
That system determined the officers had been driving at the time of the alleged assault. Four days later, the city attorney’s office charged her with filing a false police misconduct report.
On Monday, community leaders and the woman’s family voiced outrage over how the department handled the case and demanded an outside investigation.
“We have a rape victim who did everything right,” said Rebecca Waggoner-Kloek, manager of OutFront Minnesota Anti-Violence Program. “She went to the hospital and had an exam and tried to report the rape to police.”
Waggoner-Kloek, also a member of Minneapolis’ Police Community Relations Council, questioned why a required information card with the names of the officers who handled the case wasn’t given. She also said the department should have sent a sex crimes investigator instead of two from internal affairs and asked, “Why didn’t the department wait for DNA results?”
The woman’s name is public because of the charge filed against her, but the Star Tribune is not naming her because of the potential that she could, indeed, be a sexual assault victim. Her sister said she “isn’t doing well at all and won’t be the same.”
The police had no comment Monday.
According to the criminal complaint against the woman: (more…)
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