A 62 year old man in Utah is dead after the brother of a 16 year old teenager who accused him of sexual assault killed him.
The girl told her brother that the man sexually assaulted her on the bus. When the man got off on his stop, the brother followed him off the bus, tackled him to the ground and beat him. The man died from his injuries a few days later.
Surveillance video from the bus showed that, in fact, no assault had taken place and the accusations were false!
The tragedy is not just the death of the innocent man, but the number of persons falsely accused of sexual assault who do not have the benefit of a surveillance video to support their innocence. Many among our population are innocent but took a plea to withhold of adjudication and a few months probation decades ago, unknowing of the lifelong consequences that would follow them.
The Innocence project, which focuses on exhortation of death-row inmates, said that of the 130 DNA exonerees were wrongfully convicted for murders; 40 (31%) of these cases involved eyewitness mis-identifications and 81 (62%) involved false confessions [as of July 9, 2018].
The bad thing about these sort of accusations is that all that has to happen is for someone to point a finger and you are guilty. even if there is no physical evidence. You are guilty without a chance of proving your innocence. Threatened with life in prison unless you take a deal which is ridiculous. then your life is ruined and you are labeled a sex offender for the rest of your life with lifetime registration and the fear of some vigilante seeing your name on the internet and murdering you or making a mistake and murdering a loved one. Something has to change.
Yes thier should the one’s who falsely accuse someone should be punished for lying
They should both be changed
I think that the biggest problem in proving allegations to be false is the fact that it is so rare to actually have physical evidence, such as DNA, used in a CSC prosecution. The majority of cases are based on one person’s word against the other’s. And as FAC points out, the prosecutors throw so many charges at a defendant that he pleads out just to avoid the possibility of life in prison, whether guilty or not. It’s a shame that the false notion that people don’t lie about sexual assault still seems to be accepted as truth, despite how many false accusations show up every year. When I was in prison, I had the opportunity to prepare an appeal for James Grissom, who was convicted because of lies from Sara Ylen, whom he had never even met. She had even claimed to have destroyed the clothing that she was wearing when she was raped, obviously destroying any DNA evidence. It took 9 years for his appeal to finally be decided and he was released. Of course, he lost everything while in prison, and has been struggling in poverty ever since, but there was no State compensation program in place when he got out. Ylen even appeared on The Montel Williams Show where she described Grissom as a monster who strangled and raped and left her for dead. Montel showed his photo 5 times full screen during the show, exposing him to dangers from other inmates there. Too bad Mr. Williams can’t throw a little money Jim’s way as compensation, since the shows ratings were surely high that day. Liars are out there, and there is little defense against them.
https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2014/01/serial_rape_accuser_sara_ylen.html
That is heart breaking. I wonder if Montel even knows. Not that he would care. And what about the husband of this woman. He is in the article talking about her coming home and making this claim. Did he not know all these other claims his wife makes? Hmmm.
This is horrible. I hope it’s a wake up call to people who easily judge.
It’s insane that we have had such a high number of innocent people convicted. It’s clear that we have very unethical people working in our system, yet many people still don’t think of ever questioning anything police or prosecutors do. Even the criminal defense attorneys are sometimes involved in helping convict innocent people. That’s the reality of what is going on in our system. There just is not much exposure about it, and most people continue to believe and trust anything police and prosecutors say or do. There needs to be severe consequences set in place for those working in our system who do dishonest things, at the cost of other people’s lives. When is that going happen? When are we finally going to get there? As long as they can continue to easily get away with this, they will continue to do it. They need consequences to stop them. Those that get caught should be used as examples to deter others from doing it. It’s time to start paying more attention and catching the criminals who are working in our system.
How do I get help proving false accusations and wrongful conviction?
A Lawyer
I would loke to know my son is being falsely accused and all the state attorney has is her word which has changed 3 different times
We need to get plea bargains out of the justice system. Those that commit crimes have a general idea of what the plea will be so do it and those that are innocent know what the consequences are gonna be (life in prison vs 2 years probation) at trial so take a plea of convenience. These levels 5-10-25-life most the times don’t fit the crime at all. Having a car in your drive 4 days unregistered tag carries 5 years. BS. You know that person is gonna plea and rich run courts make their money by keeping people in suites. It’s black male and a tax on poor with these laws and regulations. Straight disregarded to someone’s freedoms and God given breath. Ive work in many other states see 1/20th even 1/100th Leo’s vs population and see happier people. Better goodwill in the community’s. One thing I noticed is people in other states take responsibility for their actions and are more cautious. They are more courteous to each other. Way more attentive medical attention to insured and uninsured alike. I think this has todo with the law and order approach and Florida thinking everyone is stupid. People here hate the police. They hate every aspect of law and order cause someone in every family has government intrusion to one of their members over bs. Florida will never correct itself they have theme parks and white beaches. It’s like asking tobacco companies to remove the harmful chemicals. People keep buying so why? In order for law and order to work here they have to have bodies being arrested cause the system is an over grown tree in sandy loom that has to be fertilized excessively. No bodies then no work. Sad and the cops themselves are simply bodies. How many of you cops socialize with inter system or professionals? Y’all are just being used also no different than a lot of us you arrest for shit that isn’t even illegal in other places.
There should be reprocussions against those who cry wolf.