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Originally Posted by thefoss1957
Not so...In the town that I live, there are any number of "statutory rape" charges against HS aged guys every year...
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This is clearly a different category of accusation than what GreenLantern was getting at. Besides, I suspect that the vast majority of statutory rape charges were not based on false allegations. After all, there is still a law in place that rather inflexibly mandates the age of consent, is there not?
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Originally Posted by thefoss1957
At the hospital where I work...
My practical experience in observing rape cases, is that there seems to be an assumption of GUILT, in an effort to protect victims.
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As I pointed out from M Bates' post above, this is all anecdotal, and rather meaningless in the absence of actual data. Your story provides virtually no information about the relative pattern of false allegations in rape investigations generally.
I would still expect—based on the information and data that I have seen in this discussion—that false allegations are incredibly rare.