“I was falsely accused of raping someone when I was in high school by someone who was trying to get back at at my family. The mother made the girl make the accusations. IT was horrible and I still suffer because of it. For 2 years, while this was in the court, I though I was going to jail. Every time the phone rang or the door bell rang I thought it was the police getting ready to take me away. While all my family believed me, the police and lawyers believed I was guilty and they made sure I knew that. So much for being innocent until proven guilty. I took took and passed a lie detector test and finally her story fell apart. When and where she claimed it happened proved to be untrue. I was out of the country when she said it happened and we did not live in the town she claimed it happend (she said it happened at our house)

Even now I suffer from the effects. I don't trust anyone. I am terrified of ever going through something like that again. The few women I have had relationships since that time have all complained that I am not affectionate, that I never initiate any intimacy. I am so scared that if I do someone will say I attempted to rape them I have to wait until my girlfriend initiates the intimacy. For the most part, I always need to have someone with me when I am around a woman so I can have someone to back me up if any claims of inappropriate behavior arises. Even normal human contact like touching someone's arm or shaking hands I cannot do.

So for those of you that state it is not that bad for someone to be falsely accused, let me assure you it is. It is a misreable, lonley existance.”

“I was raped by an ex and he got away with it wheres the justice in that!!!!
I had medical evidence n more!
I had to have a operation due to wat the scum done to me.
im still goin thru side effects from the rape.
On the Jury there was more men than women.
I have to live now no'in he is out there and he can do it to someone else..
Its up to the CPS wether it goes to court or not.. If they have enough evidence they will send it to court!
People like her give us people that have been raped harder time in court wining..
It makes me so sick n upset that she can do that! she needs to be locked up!
My case was in this paper..”

“Chelt, kindly show me where I have been abusive to women. In addition, when you say I
"cannot really have anything of merit to say about a highley emotive and unresolved issue." Under what authority is it unresolved? Why can't we talk FACTS instead of just attacking ME? It is NOT unresolved. For you to say that denigrates countless falsely accused men and boys.”

“I never made the blanket statement that "being falsely accused of rape is worse than actually being raped." Each case is different. Some men and boys falsely accused of rape have been beaten and killed and have killed themselves; they¿ve been fired from their jobs and lost their businesses; they¿ve suffered from depression; they¿ve lost their wives, their girlfriends and have been permanently alienated from their friends. Rarely do they ever come out of it whole, and for many, the ghost of a false rape claim trails them for the rest of their lives.”

“Pierce
Copied and pasted from your original statement:-

"I promise you that this man's suffering was at least as great as, and likely greater than, the suffering of many rape victims."”

“Pierce
having been through the crown court system, and being the victim of a nasty sexual assault, I have first hand evidence of the disbelief and negative attitude of police and baristers alike. In NO WAY were my needs put before the person who attacked me, and they should have been. Unfortunately this issue is bigger than simply saying "more than half of all rape accusations are false".
Being falsely accused of anything is a travisty, but that is what the courts are their to determine in a democratic country, and with most rapes no even being bought to the courts I don't think we have to much to worry about.

...and your comment on your belief that being falsely accused of rape is worse than actually being raped is shameful and "grotesque".

I wish you and your organisation well, but your comments have come across as misogynistic and bitter.”

“A. Gloucester said: "I find it a little sad that this girl felt the need to make a false rape allegation for what ever reason.

"However, in 2007 Gloucestershire was seen to have the lowest success rate for conviction for rape at just 0.36 % which is an abysmal rate as opposed to other areas of the UK who have 12% over the same period."

I founded one of the few websites in the world that gives voice to men and boys falsely accused of this crime, The False Rape Society, and I find these comments repulsive.

A "little sad"? That a man was deprived of his liberty and faced the possibility of years in prison -- for something he did not do? It is not "a little sad" that a man was put through this hell, any more than it's "a little sad" when a woman is actually raped. I promise you that this man's suffering was at least as great as, and likely greater than, the suffering of many rape victims.

And then you use the occasion of this false rape claim to talk about an entirely different crime -- rape?

For your information, the victim here is a flesh-and-blood human being -- even though he's a dreaded male. The victim here is not some future, unknown, hypothetical, phantom, possible, could-be, even unborn rape victims who might be, possibly will be, may be dissuaded by such lies from coming forward.

As for your figures on conviction rates, there are two good reasons rape has a lower conviction rate than other crimes: the evidence typically comes down to "he said/she said" and we are loathe to put people in prison and destroy their lives based on who's the better actor. More importantly, every unbiased study ever conducted on false rape claims by someone without a financial interest in supporting their prior "scholarship" shows that they are a significant problem, and objectively verifiable data indicates that likely close to half of all rape claims, and possibly more, are false. Every single one. Yet sexual assault counselors often disingenuously refer to false rape accusations as a "myth."

Victims of false rape claims cut across every socio-economic class but are almost exclusively male. The crime of making a false rape report has become unnecessarily gender-politicized and so embroiled in the radical feminist sexual assault milieu that it has been improperly removed from the public discourse about rape.

While we have made reporting rape claims, both true and false, easier than ever, we refuse to address the special needs of the presumed innocent men and boys who are charged with rape, and who too often turn out to have been falsely accused. By any measure, denigrating the experience of the wrongly accused by dismissing their victimization as a "myth" or as unworthy of our discussion, much less our protection, is not merely dishonest but morally grotesque.”

“another Jessica. I think most rape cases are initially investigated fairly seriously but these often break down at the first hurdle due to lack of evidence. If the CPS think they might be able to get a conviction then they'll be very thorough but unfortunately this is seldom the case. It's often one person's word against another's.”

“Womens names in rape cases are, quite rightly, kept secret but men are not afforded this anonymity and can be named before any verdict is reached. As other posters have stated, innocent or guilty mud sticks. All names and details should be kept secret until after any trial and then only released with the judges permission.”

“I find it a little sad that this girl felt the need to make a false rape allegation for what ever reason.

However, in 2007 Gloucestershire was seen to have the lowest success rate for conviction for rape at just 0.36 % which is an abysmal rate as opposed to other areas of the UK who have 12% over the same period.”