re: #621 Obdicut

True. And the penalty for false reports should be large. And I think the names of the accused should be shielded from the public just as the names of the victims are.

But overall, far, far, far, far, far more reports go unreported and unprosecuted than are falsely prosecuted.

Here’s the thing though. If you penalize false reports you are going to end up penalizing some actual rape victims for coming forward. It’s a tricky situation. I would support heavily penalizing false allegations that a provably false, i.e., the alleged assailant was in another country at the time, or the alleged victim bragged about framing someone, or whatever. Both of those examples are cases we have had at the office I work at, and the “victims” in these cases faced no penalty whatsoever. That’s a travesty, imo.