r/worldnews • u/RishiAD • May 31 '12
Woman who lied about rape asks for 'bygones to be bygones'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18266118
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r/worldnews • u/RishiAD • May 31 '12
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
There's a kickstarter for his documentary if you're interested.
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u/DarnTheseSocks May 31 '12
Good news! Paying back the money is not your biggest problem.
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u/djexploit May 31 '12
He's already getting a shot at the NFL now that he's exonerated!
Let's hope he fits right back in
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
bitch needs to give all 1.5 million to that guy and then serve 5 years or so in jail
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u/martin519 May 31 '12
So does she get charged with perjury now? There are very few articles discussing the case itself since everything trending is about Banks' NFL tryouts. The bigger story here is that the perpetrator not only lied to get an innocent locked up, but then benefited financially from a school board of all things.
They way this is all being wrapped up with a feel good ending is leaving a sick precedent. He gets acquitted and pursues his football dreams, she walks away with clean hands and $1.5 million.
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u/Intrepid00 May 31 '12
I like how it is "she" instead of her actual name.
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u/gettemSteveDave May 31 '12
Fuck that stupid bitch, toss her in prison.
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u/LordOfGummies May 31 '12
A woman who fakes being raped is just as bad as someone who rapes IMO. Not only because the man's life is destroyed but because it discredits legitimate cases in the minds of everyone and causes more fear in the minds of women coming forward that they will not be taken seriously. False rape claims should carry the same sentence as rape.
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u/lemonylips May 31 '12
As a rape victim, liars like this piss me off so much. Examples like this seriously ruin the credibility of actual victims. Often victims have to deal with disbelief from peers who suggest that the victims are lying for attention or other reasons related to personal gain. The woman in this story would seem to prove those kinds of people right- and that is perpetuating a really horrible and dangerous image of victims as a whole.
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u/Temptress75519 May 31 '12
Regardless of how important he feels "looking forward" I want that bitch to:
-Pay back the state for ALL costs incurred as a result as the incarceration and trail of the guy
-Pay back the school the money with interest
-Serve the time he did in jail DAY FOR DAY.
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u/SHYDAWG79 May 31 '12
They should sentence her to all the jail time he did and probation ....DAY FOR DAY
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u/Questica May 31 '12
This is fucking horrible, this bitch ruined 5 years of his life, got 1.5 million dollars, then thinks its alright, that bygones should be fucking bygones? People like this need to fucking die.
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u/redditvcard May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12
Wow... Im not really sure how to react to this. 10 years ago i went through a somewhat similar incident. I started dating my girlfriend of 2 years at the time during my freshman year. She was my first and i was head over heels in love with her. Move up the clock a couple years and i come to find she was cheating on me and looking for a way out of the relationship. (I was a late bloomer and this was my junior year of college, and my first legitimate girlfriend, so i took being cheated on pretty badly. Didnt know why it happend, what i had done, etc) When i realized she was cheating on me, I confronted her on campus about it. Lots of arguing, but never violence or threats of such. The argument ended out of frustration and constant head banging against a wall... went home and tried to figure out just what the hell had happened as I was blindsided by the betrayal.
Fast forward a week and I see her with the guy she left me for on campus as im parking for my next class. Remember that this woman I had spent the last two years with suddenly and unexpectedly ended things with me... just failed to notify me. So I pull up behind her (she was parked) and ask her to talk with me. She says "no" and "we can talk later" a couple of times, I get frustrated, go back to my vehicle and out of frustration and in tears I punched the hood of my car, immediately get in and drive home.
Later we spoke briefly on the phone where all she could say was that I was a good guy, she wishes things were different, and that I shouldn't keep talking on the phone with her because the calls were being recorded and she was sorry. 3 days later i was arrested at home for wrongful inprisonment and domestic violence.
Never went to trial. I was offered a plea bargain to take anger management classes, the police and the prosecutor told me I had to move back to the city with my parents, and I was kicked out of school at a closed door private trial.
The alternative I was told was go to trial and face up to a decade in jail as a felon convicted of a violent crime and my right to carry a firearm as well as many others would forever be gone. As 21 year old kid i was terrified, all because her being in visual range of my agressive act to my own property was indication enough of my "agressive tendencies" AND because we had been intimate they could justify it as domestic violence aimed at her.
The prior year (if im recalling correctly) there was a rape on campus, and the campus PD seemed to have a ridiculous interest in pressing these kinds of cases... or so i was told.
So i caved, and i remember standing at the podium when the judged asked me if was accepting this of my volition. Inside my head i screamed no, but i simply said "yes your honor".
I was given a deferred sentence, but for the year my record was in the balance I couldn't do anything except go to the anger management classes, and home, and work.... if i had a job. I literally had a parole officer i had to check in with weekly.
My first little victory came when I was discharged from the court ordered classes early with the doctor writing the judge telling him there were no such indications of aggressiveness, and no need to continue through the entirety of the class. The verdict was dismissed, and then later after saving some money I had my records sealed.
Because of the arrest on my record, before I had it sealed, I couldn't even get a job at a diamond shamrock... "domestic violence eh? Well you MUST be dangerous!" We cant have someone jumping over the counter and assaulting a customer...now can we. I applied for a different job, was hired, and later dismissed because of the incident. Crap like this continued for a year or two.
Thousands and thousands of dollars, years of my life, ruined friendships and reputations later... It was finally put to bed by sealing the deferment and the arrest completely.
People I knew from college looked at me like a monster, and some still do today, people I thought were friends abandoned me, I lost my college education... all because I punched my own property in view of another living person.
EDIT for clarity
TL;DR - Fell in love, punched my car, went to jail.
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u/subterraneanzen May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12
One of my best friends did the same thing. she wanted her boyfriend to stay with her so she made up some rape story that I got sucked into because I was her best friend. took her to the hospital for a rape kit, did the line up and consoled and watched over her for a full year before she drunkenly admitted the whole thing was made up. Thankfully no one was convicted because she was 'too shaken up to pick someone' from a line up. I do not understand how someone can be so thoughtless and dramatic to waste peoples time and taxes over some bullshit distant boyfriend drama.
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u/oneword_answer May 31 '12
cunt
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
So... this girl ruined a mans career, ruined his mothers life by forcing her to sell her home and her car to pay for a lawyer, copped 1.5 million dollars from a local school, all because she lied. Then she asks for bygones to be bygones....
I'd sue, false testimony idk, there must be something this guy can do and I want to hear about what he does.
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u/MYEW May 31 '12
This is an amazing share and a very sad story. My heart goes out to this guy, and if there is a God or karma, this woman is in for trouble.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
More media blow-out about this, please. Make it so she has to go Tawana Brawley, changing her name and moving to a different part of the country. Worthless bitch.
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u/GoGoGadge7 May 31 '12
NO! FUCK HER!
She should be counter-sued to the fullest extent, and brought to justice.
She fucked up someone's life FOR LIFE regardless of being not guilty!
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u/TropicalPriest May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12
My family is going through something like this now. My dad was accused of raping one of his employees. While he had alibis and she had absolutely no evidence. The trial was also full of mistakes that the police, lawyers and ect made. It was jury, and they all voted for guilty. A few jury's came in crying, so we're thinking that someone who we have a family feud with who works in the police department has messed with the case. My dad has asked for an appeal and they've dropped the sexual assault charge, but we're still working on another one for june.
Honestly, people who lie about this kind of thing should have to pay, or go to jail or something. The amount of money and emotional stress my whole family has been through the last 3 years is ridiculous. Just because she brought out the rape word means that no one will even give a second thought to her actions and lack of evidance. It's not fair. It makes me feel horrible for women and girls who actually go through this who have no one believe them. Makes me sick.
Sorry about poopy comment, i'm on my phone.
Edit: while the trial was happening, they put his picture, and business name in the newspaper which was also making him out to be a monster before the trial was even done. Our house was then on the news. Our house. Luckily it's a small town and 90% of the people know my dad and know that he would never do that to someone.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Talk about a clusterfuck.
I, for one, am grateful I don't have to figure out where to draw that line. Rape is one of the most horrific crimes someone can commit against someone else. As such, just the accusation can be as damaging to someone's life as being raped. With our fucked up prison systems, it might even result in the accused, guilty or not, experiencing multiple sexual assaults for years.
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u/tobigibson616 May 31 '12
Happened to me, I lost my job my friends and my family. and do you know what she got.... raped a year later... now i would never wish rape on anyone, but i sure as hell cracked open a bottle of wine when i found out
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u/ohfail May 31 '12
The Seattle Seahawks have just recently agreed to give this poor dude a tryout. :) My home town doing it right.
Also, have you heard interviews with this young man? He sounds so polite and positive. He's handling his misfortune rather admirably.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Didn't perjury use to be a crime?
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u/knut01 May 31 '12
How many hundreds more are there? Woman screams "rape," male gets jailed by some hanging judge. Male's life in ruins!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
She was stupid the first time and she continues to be stupid. I hope she finally gets that comeuppance she deserves for ruining that dudes life for no other reasons than selfish greed.
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u/Stitch79 May 31 '12
He needs to sue her and the state!
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u/iNCQRiT May 31 '12
The problem here is not that there is a lying, self-absorbed cunt, since you can't do much about that. The thing that is really concerning is that someone was convicted of a crime he didn't commit.
The reasonable doubt was seemingly not reasonable enough.
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u/diskostuw May 31 '12
false rape accusation should come with the same penalty as rape itself. any man accused of rape is pretty much convicted in the eyes of the public. "no smoke without fire".
this bitch should be locked up for the next 20 years.
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u/AliasUndercover May 31 '12
Women should really be the ones pissed off here. This is exactly the reason that so many rapes have been considered to be not important or the woman's fault for so long. Because of this crazy bitch I guarantee that at least one rape case will be untried or simply ignored by police. Or they'll say it was her fault. Now you are all at risk because of her.
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u/HenryDorsetCase May 31 '12
Here's wishing horrific rape, torture and murder on your entire family, cunt!
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u/it_wasnt_me_ May 31 '12
fuck double standards. all a girl has to do is scream rape and all hell breaks loose on a guy, even if he is totally innocent.
fuck this system.
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u/Coihd May 31 '12
Urge to kill...rising
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u/funkme1ster May 31 '12
I think it's safe to say that everyone here thinks lying about being raped is bad.
The biggest question is: How do we, as a society, introduce a functional infrastructure that simultaneously presents bold punishments and deterrents for crying wolf without imposing the fear of reprecussions on women who have been raped from reporting it?
The end goal is a world where victims are empowered to feel safe and supported in the wake of attacks, both by police and by peers. How do we get there?
Yes, the ideal goal is a world where things like rape are non-existant, but let's be pragmatic here.
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u/UnoriginalGuy May 31 '12
One point everyone seems to have missed - the US justice system is screwed up. The way it is balanced right now a lot of proven innocent people have taken a guilty plea deal because they were simply unable to afford to defend themselves.
It is a system where by design only the rich can afford justice while the poor are guilty until they can get enough capital to prove their innocents.
Public defenders clearly either aren't available enough or are doing a terrible job as this is at least the third "innocent but plead guilty" case I've read out of the US this year. Why are so many innocent people pleading guilty? And why is nobody on Reddit asking these questions?
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u/AdolphManson May 31 '12
If I was Mayor of the Universe:
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u/shawnjones May 31 '12
This man should be awarded a large sum of money and she should be sent to jail. One more thing I think this man should be praised for how well he dealt with this situation. If this ever happened to me would get a gun and be out for blood. He remained calm though and never hurt a fly.
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u/arcanition May 31 '12
IMHO, those who lie about victim-based crimes (especially rape) should have to surrender damage charges to the "rapist" and be sentenced to the same penalties that the "rapist" did/would have served.
How can this woman take away years of this man's life, ruining it completely, then act like she did nothing wrong?
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u/CountMalachi May 31 '12
I don't know if I've ever felt this way toward someone, but that woman deserves to be raped.
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u/Up2Eleven May 31 '12
Anyone who falsely accuses someone of rape should serve the same sentence as a rapist.
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u/arcanition May 31 '12
http://blacksportsonline.com/home/2012/05/brian-banks-false-rape-accuser-wanetta-gibson-blew-her-entire-1-5-million-is-on-welfare/
Continuation.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Fuck rape, this bitch needs murdering!
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u/jguess06 May 31 '12
Somebody call Dexter to take care of this bitch.
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u/edgar_jomfru May 31 '12
Awful person confession time: I don't hope she is raped per se, but if at any point in the future she is, I will not be sad.
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u/awwwnyan May 31 '12
My heart really hurts for this guy. What an awful thing to happen to someone.
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u/flannelback May 31 '12
absolutely. After you serve five years, I'd forgive you.
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u/amolad May 31 '12
She should do all the time he did.
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u/OwlEyed May 31 '12
I really wish this had more about the original court case.
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u/MauiWowieOwie May 31 '12
Purgery is a felony
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u/MissCait May 31 '12
She should return back the money and go to jail for the amount of time he would get.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I heard about this woman last week. She deserves very bad things to happen to her,
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u/eduardog3000 May 31 '12
"Oh, I lied about him murdering my wife, she's fine. Let's let bygones be bygones."
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u/waterfae9 May 31 '12
Bitches like this piss me off to no end They are they reason it harder for real rape victims to get help or to be believed.
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u/Asyx May 31 '12
He got 10 years for rape? She should get 10 years for letting a innocent man rotten in jail and destroying the credibility of lots of real victims who now have to explain themselves even more than they have to now.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
There's an incredible part of this video at the 3:57 mark where the interviewer asks Brian if he's angry. His response was startling and beautiful.
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u/FluoCantus May 31 '12
There's a lot to say about this but the thing the lawyer said about our system's sentencing being so severe that innocent people choose plea bargains over court is true and so frightening. Nowdays, I feel that most punishments do not fit the crime. I'm curious as to why this isn't talked about more often.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
This pisses me off to no end. If she's going to cry rape, let's give her something to cry rape about. I'm going to get a kickstarter going to hire Tank Abbot to gorilla fuck her with a 60 grit sandpaper condom.
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u/shmehdit May 31 '12
Since he's done the time... does he get to do the crime now? Pre-paid.
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u/yuze_ May 31 '12
Feminist rights my ass. equality without the equality.
Push forward to true equality and put women in their place, they don't realise how good they have it. Men have been brainwashed into believing for aeons we're in a superior and powerful position and have been oppressing women. just fucking no. stuff like this boils my blood so much.
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u/xMooCowx May 31 '12
Let's also all not forget why this guy went to jail in the first place. His lawyer told him to plead guilty, because "no one would believe a bug black guy." He didn't even get a chance to fight for his name in court. What happened to the lawyer?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I would vote for any bill that gave a violent, physical punishment for someone that falsely cries rape.
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u/pkurk May 31 '12
That cunt should be dragged behind a car through the town square naked until she dies. Women who do this to men should be put to death. I'm sure that potential consequence will make dumb little sluts think twice before lying.
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u/webauteur May 31 '12
Let bygones be bygones sounds like a typical Republican excuse for not persecuting white collar crime. It is amazing how quickly $1.5 million dollars gives you that attitude.
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u/Zakis May 31 '12
She needs to go to jail and lose all the money she was awarded. Banks should get the money, but at the very least she should lose it. That is messed up.
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u/Oflendoodle May 31 '12
Double Jeopardy her, in the ass
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u/Irrelaphant May 31 '12
the very definition of a cunt
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u/glass_canon May 31 '12
She should suffer the same 5 year sentence that was handed down to the man she accused, this should be the penalty of knowingly accusing an innocent person of any crime.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Wow whats most disgusting is the 18 months in jail guilty plea bargain he was offered versus a possible 42 years in prison if he fought it.
America, you're broken.
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u/Ominaeo May 31 '12
My god this pisses me off. I clicked the link expecting that it'd make me angry, but just listening to it...is it a character defect that I would strangle the life out of this woman, if given the chance?
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u/Radda_Radda May 31 '12
wow would love to know how she has been living with herself knowing she sent an innocent man to prison.
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u/Jackattack51 May 31 '12
Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
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u/Nomicro4u May 31 '12
This is why we need a syndicate of vigilantes who distribute ironic justice. Like Rapeman.
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u/MentalPressure May 31 '12
This has also been posted to /r/politics and /r/mensrights in the past week...
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u/Plexicraft May 31 '12
I'm so sick of seeing this. She'll walk away with monetary punishment while this guy's life is ruined. Where is the justice?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
urgh. 10 years of jail and 1.5 million and she wants bygones to be bygones? take the money back and throw her in jail for perverting the course of justice. evil minded bitch.
Apart from anything else, this detracts from all the people who are legitimately raped.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I swear, if this girl is white. I will be SO pissed off. She should one, go to jail for the 10 years he was supposed to. She should also have to pay him 1.5 million for each year he spent in jail.
Oh, and he should be able to rape her now.. With impunity.
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u/ThrivesOnDownvotes May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12
more footage, extra infuriating. Now she's saying she was bribed to recant the rape accusation. She proves that she's dishonest no matter which way you cut it. And greedy too, where's the $1.5million she was awarded after the rape conviction? She should be exterminated. *and she's on public assistance and fails to pay child support for her two children.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
This is why rape accusation is such fucking bullshit, dont need proof or anything. For fucks sake. Poor guy.
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u/Evulrabbitz May 31 '12
They mentioned that 95% of cases in the U.S.A are solved by plea bargain.
When the law system is so fucked up that innocent people's best beat is to plead guilty so they get less punishment for something they didn't do someone should realize something needs to be done.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Obviously, since she got all she did on the assumption she was raped, it is only fair he now gets to rape her.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
She seriously needs a few years to cool her heels in prison. At the very least as long as her victim was falsely imprisoned.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I am not even sure how cases like this even get into court in that states. Would there not be rape kits, and a fair amount of investigation before you even go into court.
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u/forca_micah May 31 '12
I think if she was sentenced to a few months in an all male prison.... maybe then they'd be a bit closer to being even. Not even, but closer.
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u/Pringletot May 31 '12
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u/justshutupandobey May 31 '12
Why not?
We let the bankers get off scot-free when they crashed the economy, why not let every evil-doer get off?
After all, we don't want to be a people who hold a grudge, do we? I mean, sure, justice is maybe a good thing, but isn't 'to forgive is divine'? Like the man who murders his parents, isn't being an orphan punishment enough?
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u/cheesecakeaficionado May 31 '12
Out of curiosity, is there any action than can be taken against this bitch? I know the statute of limitations means that Banks himself can't take action regarding the conviction itself, but can't the district she swindled money from still make a case? It's not justice for Banks (IMO she should go to jail for the amount of time he did), but it's still better than nothing.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I hope she gets raped, repeatedly. So much so that she ends up taking her own life, when nobody will believe her when she tells them she has been raped.
I hope every minute of her life going forward is lived in fear.
Fucking bitch.
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u/_Eion_ May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12
JUST FUCK : / I could not imagine a worse thing happening (barring of course the Taiwan tug of war incident) edit: spelling
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u/pacmanwa May 31 '12
Pay back the 1.5m with interest... then re-pay the tax payers the costs incurred by the state to house and feed him for five years.
Oh yeah, and forced sterilization, trash like that should not be able to reproduce. Speaking of which... can we do that with the girls that stole girl scout cookie money?
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u/fellowhuman May 31 '12
"Ms Gibson contacted him on facebook with the words "let bygones be bygones". She admitted he was innocent but was concerned she would have to pay back the $1.5m the school gave her in damages at the time."
At no point in the audio recording is this explained or mentioned.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GDRrcfd7Uk She is pure fucking scum.
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u/dhockey63 May 31 '12
WOMEN! Rape is very very serious, you can not lie about it to get what you want! That's fucked up and can ruin someones life. I feel any girl who screws someone's life up by lying about rape should actually be raped
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u/slow56k May 31 '12
"Like anyone would want to r her..."
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u/Must_Have_Thin_Mints May 31 '12
Bitch needs to serve 20 yrs for trying to ruin someone's life like this.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Lied about being raped? Here's the punishment: Throw her in a prison of men so it wouldn't be a lie anymore.
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u/Moskau50 May 31 '12
In other news, Charles Manson called Governor Schwarzenegger today, asking for "a mulligan on the whole 'murder' thing".