it's just so easy to destroy someone,destroy their family

www.smh.com.au/nsw/strathfield-station-s...-20140129-31lz2.html

Police have withdrawn charges against a man accused of raping a teenage schoolgirl at Strathfield station.

Ben Kooy, 34, was arrested last Wednesday and charged with dragging the 17-year-old girl off a train in the middle of the day and into a toilet block where he allegedly sexually assaulted her.

CCTV footage from the station showed the pair together on the platform and police were told Mr Kooy struck up a conversation with the girl as she travelled from Redfern station to school.

Mr Kooy left after the alleged incident and was located by police nearby soon after and charged with sexual intercourse without consent.

What is "sexual intercourse without consent" on a seventeen year old? Surely that would be rape?

I know of 3 'ordinary' people who have been falsely accused in recent years so I disagree it's 'rare'

the man was kept in jail for 3 days as police demanded he be refused bail and his 'crime' was shocking.

by the third day the claimant's story began unraveling and police urgently backpedalled.

but with a false claimant with a better story and a more together thought process- the man could face months of hell.

We really are reaching a point where, at last, people in important positions start understanding that, for a variety of reasons, allegations CAN be false.
You will NOT always be believed. People get it wrong. There are misunderstandings. Memory can be faulty. Claims can be motivated by malice, a desire for revenge, greed for compensation or media fees, the influence of alcohol or drugs or publicity... there are many reasons for accusations ranging from genuine delusion to intentional wickedness.

And, of course, some are true, accurate and honest.

One of the worst things about this epidemic, as I said 14 years ago, is that it will suffocate the genuine victims and allow real perpetrators to walk free.

if for many years you tell yourself something happene ( little white lies) somehow they seem to attract their own provanance. if i think back to my teens I remember a day out with my mates in 1976, one of them swears he remembers nothing of the day but he is in the photgraph on the cross channel ferry with us all. he said he had never been on a boat ! equally I have a vivid memory of that event but not of another trip a few weeks later. strange.

JK you are correct, with all this media celeb hype where patting a bottom is now assault lesser meer mortals stand no chance of being listend to. I am very suprised also that alledged sex offenders are not put on a ducking stool to see if they cannot be drowned !

the DLT trial is a mockery of the UK justice system, what next, in 1978 you littered by dropping a fag packet in Great Portland Street ! hang him !!!

Chris Retro wrote:
I know of 3 'ordinary' people who have been falsely accused in recent years so I disagree it's 'rare'

I know a few people that come out with un true stories about having been raped etc, very often about ex partners, but not always, very few of them go to the police, and if some have they usually haven't gone as far as court, but that hasn't stopped these women going around slandering the hell out of the people they've chosen to accuse, even in some cases, turning, or attempting to turn, their children against them, (the Mia Farrow/Woody Allen case is classic), it happens all the time and I think it is so wide spread that it is actually a sickness within our society/culture.

Reading that article posted by Hedda here about the Mia Farrow/Woody Allen situation, it seems to me that it is Mia Farrow that has abused all her adopted children (the ones that were involved with Woody), by either making them believe something that wasn't true and destroying their relationship with him, or in the case of the daughter she got to accuse him, coaching her to tell lies (and brainwashing her into believing she was doing the right thing) about her adopted father. Her oldest adopted son who stopped speaking to Woody at the time, has since stopped contact with Mia and reconnected with Woody, and says he can now see it for the brainwashing it was - but the other kids were all 7 and under at the time...

www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/2...ons-not-so-fast.html