Melania Trump says Sexual Assault victims shouldn't report unless they have evidence

[Neo-Scholastic]

The US criminal justice system is very problematic and reform is desparately needed. At the same time false accusations of rape are not unique to the USA:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media...25627.html

“A mother-of-three was jailed for 18 months today for falsely claiming she had been abducted and raped because she was worried her husband would find out that she had a one-night stand.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/2...84718.html

“Despite a lack of evidence in the trial, the judge took Coast’s word over Montgomery’s and sentenced the innocent man.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engla...466096.stm

“Rosanne England, 21, cut and then tore her underwear and scratched her own face before telling police a masked stranger had entered her house. Derek Cummings, 59, who had never met England, was arrested because he fitted the description and had no alibi.”

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/1318...ape-claim/

“Kelly Harwood, 43, had drunken consensual sex with the 30-year-old on a camp bed set up in her friend's kitchen. But she felt guilty when they stopped because she realised she had betrayed her friend. She called the police and lied to officers by claiming that she had been raped at the property in Aberdeen”

http://www.breakingworldnewstoday.com/20...b3197.html

“The woman of Clarksville, Tennessee, told police that she was sexually assaulted by the man. However, it turned out that she simply “did not like” the sex with him.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...years.html

“Judge slams lying law graduate who claimed boyfriend raped her so she had an excuse for failing her exams as she is jailed for three and a half years”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-jail.html

“As long ago as 2002, she admitted in a statement to police that she was ' seeking attention' from them.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-life.html

“31-year-old fantasist Linsey Attridge chanced upon a photograph of Philip and his then 14-year-old brother James and used it to back up a story she’d concocted. She’d done it, apparently, in order to win some sympathy with her boyfriend, when she feared his affections were waning.”

http://www.wfmz.com/news/berks/reading-p...d/19603187

“During a subsequent interview in June, however, Osiecki admitted to police that she made up the rape allegations against her former boyfriend because she wanted to get back at him for spreading rumors about her, according to court documents.”


IMHO the current political environment around sexual assualt with the admonitions to "Believe all survivors" etc. taints potential jury pools making false accusations more likely to result in convictions of innocent men. The criminal justice system is already in bad shape.