A judges comments!!!

[quinnb]

A woman who claimed she was a nurse has been jailed for making false allegations of rape against three men.

Christina Dallison, 27, from Woodgate, Leicester, was sentenced to two years in prison at the city's crown court for perverting the course of justice.

She approached one of the men in a job centre and told him she was a nurse, but later confessed she was an escort.

Judge Michael Fowler told her: "Your acts are a betrayal of the victims of genuine rape."

All of the victims, men in their 30s and 40s, had to live for several months with the rape allegations hanging over them, Leicester Crown Court was told.

Judge Fowler added the rape claims "put in the minds of people that false allegations are in some way commonplace. We know they are not."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/l...re/8357688.stm

The judge seems to think that false allegations are NOT common place. After all the threads I have read on here has his honour got that statement wrong?

Also there seems to be a post code lottery to if people actually get prosecuted or not for making false allegations - as I know Bedfordshire police do not prosecute.

[friday]

i guess false allegations are fairly uncommon, although how you could ever really know the true number of false allegations or true rapes i do not know. i don't have statistics but compared to theft, for example, it is uncommon. but i suspect it is more common than violent offences committed by people with mental health problems but of course those are more often reported and therefore seem more common. rape crisis estimate 1 in 4 women experience rape and i may be wrong but i doubt 1 in 4 men are falsely accused so in comparison it is uncommon. unless there is a definition of common, uncommon, rare etc then his words about frequency of the offence don't really mean a great deal. the fact it is making the newspapers is definetely a positive thing but as he said, i hope it doesn't affect real rape victims by making people (and juries) believe false allegations are common.