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From: cja@lzwi.UUCP (C.E.JACKSON)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: charges of rape, and good points
Message-ID: <166@lzwi.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 18:41:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  6 18:41:53 1985
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Summary: Incidence of false reporting

In article <446@ttidcc.UUCP>, regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard) writes:
> And if a woman claims she said "no", that's a pretty
> good indication, even after the fact, that she meant "no".
> 
> (before you flame me for that one, I admit there are abuses to the charge
> of rape.  I ask you if that's what we are really talking about.)

According to NPR, the incidence of false reporting of rape is
the same as that for other crimes--robbery, kidnapping,
whatever. That statistic, I believe, was .2%, although I
wouldn't swear to it. At any rate, the important thing is that
false reporting of rapes is NO MORE of a problem than it is
with other crimes & therefore the rape victim's state of mind
should not be of more concern to the jury than the robbery
victim's state of mind.

C. E. Jackson
...ihnp4!lznv!cja (for reasons too silly to explain,the address above 
[lzwi] is incorrect--don't use it)