Invitation To Discuss:
False Rape Claim Law
Toronto, January 12, 2012 -
In response to recent false allegations of
"Rape" by attention-seeking miscreants, RINJ Foundation has opened a
discussion on the creation of a new amendment to nation states'
criminal conduct statutes. The new law would make it a separate
crime to make a false allegation of rape. Punishment would be
similar to that given to a rapist.
RINJ dot Org has invited all interested parties to
participate in a Facebook discussion in which RINJ has advanced the
argument that there should be a separate law that allows for the
prosecution of false allegation of rape.
Early in the open discussion, RINJ dot Org issued a statement in which
it noted "In the incipient stages of this discussion of creating a
false-allegation-of-rape law that makes a criminal offence of a false
allegation of rape, we see the emergence of some of the reasons victims
are reluctant to report a crime against them. If false allegation of
rape were implemented in the Criminal Code of the commonwealth of
nations, prosecutors would not need to find such "tricky" roundabout
methods to prosecute these crimes. Moreover, defence attorneys for
alleged rapists will not be able to invoke some airy-fairy urban legend
about false allegations but instead, both sides of the court and the
jury will have bona fide statistics based on a statute's implementation.
We submit that the number of false allegations of rape is small
compared to the number of rape cases but
that in each case the consequences are horrific and create a victim who
in some minds is no less damaged than a rape victim. We further advance
that the penalty for a person convicted of making false allegations of
rape be commensurate with those issued to actual rape offenders.
RINJ has stated in the discussion that it has two goals in mind.
"We want juries to be more free to convict rapists in a comfort zone,
without bias,
provided by law and case law with strict maximum penalties for false
allegations and good litmus tests for fact finding."
"Because the method for dealing with false allegations is
wishy-washy at best, providing a good law will alleviate the ambiguity.
Too many people throw the word around like it was a swear word. That
must end. Don't scream "fire" unless there is a fire. Don't scream
"rape" unless there is a "rape". We want all rapes reported and hence
need to to remove the fear victims have that they will not be believed.
In a preamble to the discussion, RINJ dot Org advanced that, "Because
it is so easily done and because there are no statistics available about
false rape allegations, creating law to deal specifically with false
allegations will benefit our mission in ending rape. We will all have
useful statistics that will likely show false allegations to be rare and
done only by easily identifiable character types. Rape is no joke. The
word should never be used unless in the case of a "Rape". "
Additional information:
- Anyone wishing to participate in the discussion may do so on
RINJ's "Sex Assault Is No Joke" Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/rape.is.no.joke
- Any person or organization wishing to submit a brief may do so
in MS Word format to [email protected].
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Additional Reading Here at RINJ.Org
RINJ Foundation is an international organization
headquartered in Toronto and founded by persons in Canada, Britain and
Australia.
RINJ seeks removal of media content condoning sexual
assault and rape. Allowing this content on social networking sites and
in other media further normalises a rape culture and the high instance
of sexual violence in global society.
1)
RINJ reports all inappropriate content to the public, advertisers and
law enforcement where that seems appropriate.
2)
RINJ reports to advertisers any ads appearing on pro-rape,
pro-child-molestation media content, web pages and social network
groups.
3) RINJ promotes a global boycott of advertisers and
their products advertised on pro-rape content in any media.
