Do False Rape Accusations Deserved to Be Punished with Prison Time?

[cubby]

Recently a woman in California recanted her story of being raped while she was in high school. The accused spent 5 years in prison, and another 5 years on probation. She also won a $750k judgement from the school district.

Since her recantation, the school has sued for it's money back (and then some), but Banks (the accused) lost 5 years of his life, including the chance to play college football. Those 5 years are some of the best in a person's life (for some, at least).

Do you think the accuser should be given the same prison punishment? Do you think the facts in this case are dramatic enough to warrant such a harsh punishment?

And how do you think it affects those women who are raped? Easier or harder to come forward?


(apologies earlier for the harsher version of this thread - hopefully this will lead to a more productive discussion of the issues)

[Vizardlorde]

Yes they do, but it will not happen because reasons.

[BaP]

Yes,yes,yes,yes,yes

[cubby]

Mods: help! I put two up by accident. My bad. Delete this one please!

[Kruncholyo]

Yes they do. And more false accusations will occur as women follow the example of Saint Sulcowicz of the Sacred Mattress, canonized by glory-seeking senator gillibrand in spite of being a liar.
https://sites.google.com/site/faceca...press-releases

http://www.mindingthecampus.com/2015...on-gillibrand/

[Wilian]

Obviously.

[ShmooDude]

Eh... its kind of a double edged sword. While falsely accusing rape is reprehensible, women are already in general extremely reluctant to come forward.

That said, Perjury is an extremely serious charge, and if the woman testified, prosecute her under that. I wouldn't go any further than that though for fear of making it harder on women to report legitimate rape.

[Cosmic Janitor]

We had this discussion countless times before. Endus will probably just close this one again, because of reasons. :P

Also yes. Especially if your goal was to gain something by the thing it should at least be equal to fraud. Baseline probably already is reporting false crimes or something like that in most systems.

[Darsithis]

There is already a thread on this that was closed earlier.