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The Hofstra case parallels
Topic Started: Nov 2 2010, 09:26 AM (364 Views)
Quasimodo

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/16/hofstra-rape-woman-gang-r_n_288663.html

Hofstra Rape: Woman Gang Raped In Hofstra University Dorm: Police
First Posted: 09-16-09

(note how this gets around having to say, "alleged", or "claimed she was raped"; it merely
quotes the police--but it gives the impression of guilt)


HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP)-- Police in New York say an 18-year-old Hofstra University student trying to retrieve a cell phone was lured into a dormitory men's room and sexually assaulted by five men.

Four suspects have been arraigned on rape and other charges. The fifth suspect was still at-large Tuesday. The apprehended suspects are Jesus L. Ortiz, Stalin Felipe, Kevin R. Taveras, Rondell Bedward. Bedward is the only suspect enrolled at Hofstra.

(Note that their names are not kept private; they are only suspects and no crime has been determined; but
who reading this account would not conclude they are guilty, if the police think they are?)


Police believe the attack was premeditated,
Newsday reports:

Police said the victim was dancing at an on-campus spot, Hofstra USA, with Jesus L. Ortiz, of 4373 Katonah Ave., the Bronx, when Ortiz grabbed her cell phone and went outside. The woman followed Ortiz to a dormitory hallway, where she was confronted by Stalin Felipe, 19, who was ready with a rope, Nassau Police Det. Lt. John Allen said in a news conference. "Clearly, I think the cell phone was taken to lure her away from the crowd to do her harm," said Allen, commander of the department's special victims squad.

(snip)
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Quasimodo


http://newsone.com/nation/news-one-staff/hofstra-student-recants-gang-rape-allegations/


Four young men falsely accused of raping an 18-year-old student at Hofstra University were trying to return their lives to normal Friday after an ordeal that two of them described as traumatic.

“I was really scared. I couldn’t believe what was basically going through my mind. It was like a big nightmare, and I thought I was going to do time for something I didn’t do,” 20-year-old Kevin Taveras told HLN’s “Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell.”

“It was devastating,” he said. “I was there just letting the clock tick and tick.”

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Source: CNN.com

Hofstra “Rape” Video Surfaces; Accuser Suspended [Updated 09.17.09, 4:00 p.m.]

(snip)

The attorney for another of the accused men, 20-year-old Kevin Taveras, said a video of the sexual encounter confirms reports that the victim was not forcibly attacked.

“It looks more like a porn movie,” Victor Daly-Rivera said. “It showed just the opposite of what the allegations were. There was no tying up, there was no bruising, there was no screaming.”

On Wednesday night, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice revealed that the 18-year-old accuser had recanted and said the sex with the five men had been consensual.

Rice immediately got a judge to release four of the men from the Nassau County Jail. A fifth man was still being sought when the hoax was revealed.

“It’s crazy, the system is supposed to prevent these things from happening,” Taveras said outside the jail late Wednesday

“It’s supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, not guilty until proven innocent,”
he said. “Inside I thought I was going to do a bit for something I didn’t do.”

(snip)

On campus, students were shaking their heads at the latest twist in the case.

“It’s definitely a shock,” said Megan Michler, a junior from Penargyl, Pa. “I guess she completely lied about it and it’s not fair to the guys that were involved. Everyone was shaken up by the whole thing, and now we were shaken up for nothing.”

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Quasimodo

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/item_R4yY9bXjaC78fNpGtA7SHK#ixzz148GONzTU


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Last Updated: 6:45 PM, September 25, 2009
Posted: 5:06 PM, September 25, 2009

The woman who wrongfully accused four men of rape at Hofstra University will have to get mental health treatment and do 250 hours of community service -- or else face criminal charges, authorities announced this afternoon.

Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice said her office has imposed those conditions on 18-year-old Hofstra freshman Danmell Ndonye after she said she was raped earlier this month.

“There exists no perfect solution to this case, only our best attempt at holding her accountable while encouraging real victims to come forward and accusers to tell the truth so that we can avoid incarcerating an innocent person for even one minute,” said Rice.

“This agreement is the only way we guarantee that this woman gets the help that she needs and is held publicly accountable for what she’s done to our community."

(snip)

One of the men previously accused of rape, Kevin Taveras, told The Post, "I don’t wish ill will on anyone, but I think it would be a shame if she walked away from it. She should at least go through the system and spend a few days in jail. We spent four days in jail."
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Quasimodo

POSTER COMMENT on the issue:

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http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2009/09/nassau-district-attorney-hofstra.html

Wow, very typical to award sympathy to someone who does not deserve it. What about the trauma and torment to the MEN here? They are the victims, idiot.. This is very typical of the blind mentality that has been programmed into our society by the media and people like [DA] Kathleen Rice. Obviously, with thinking like this . . . "She has to be telling the truth because it is so hard for a woman to come forward with rape allegations" OBVIOUSLY NOT!!!! Just hearing Kathleen Rice spouting the victim jargon on this girl after what she did, "We have a very troubled young woman here." BS. We have a liar and a criminal that could have ruined the lives of 5 men. Oh but those men don't count. They're just men and she is the stainless woman no matter what. Obviously our laws protect the criminals.
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http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2009
Hofstra false rape case: Justice not served by failing to charge the false accuser

This is a follow-up to my post from yesterday, The real lesson of Hofstra: We can't empower our daughters by pretending they are powerless. The events of late Friday, when the Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice decided not to charge Danmel Ndonye with a crime, only underscored my point.

(snip)

But ultimately that is no substitute for a criminal charge. Criminals get charged with crimes. Powerless, troubled, angelic-like beings do not.

Ndonye committed a very serious crime that generally isn't treated very seriously for the reasons I discussed yesterday, and this high-profile case provided a perfect opportunity to send a powerful message that the criminal justice system does not favor one class of victims, rape victims, over another, false rape claim victims.

Bronx attorney Victor Daly-Rivera, who represents one of the young false rape claim victims here, said it best: "We feel that the law was broken and she should be made to answer for that," Daly-Rivera said. "People are prosecuted all the time for filing false insurance claims and things like that . . . When you compare that to accusing four men of rape, it sort of pales by comparison." The step-mother of one of the young men agreed: "He still gets flashbacks," she said. "It's not fair. She has to pay for that. All the family got hurt because of her."

Rice issued a statement justifying her decision not to charge Ndoyne with a crime: "There exists no perfect solution to this case, only our best attempt at holding her accountable while encouraging real victims to come forward and accusers to tell the truth, so that we can avoid incarcerating an innocent person for even one minute."

That is code-speak for the following:
"We mustn't do anything to interfere with the real war, the war on rape. Victims of false rape claims be damned." Rice threw four innocent young minority men under the bus in the interest of appeasing the politicized sexual grievance industry.

(snip)

Rice isn't the only culprit here. The lenient statutory laws of New York that treat this sort of misconduct as practically non-criminal are also the problem. As Ellis Hennican said: "Even if the young woman were charged, Rice added, state law only allows for a misdemeanor. Is New York law really that weak? A person can accuse another of a horrible felony without facing any serious charge? Maybe that's where this discussion should turn next."

The bottom line about Rice's statement? Simple Justice sums it up: "It does . . . have a strong connection to encouraging false accusations, since the conditions of counseling and community services offer little disincentive to not take the risk." As I explained yesterday, we live not in a rape culture but in a false rape culture "where it is far more important to protect our daughters than our sons, so even far-fetched allegations of rape, even the possibility of rape, are not endured for one moment, but false rape claims that destroy our sons are not merely tolerated, they are tacitly encouraged."

(snip)


Now, what about Tawana and Mangum...?

Edited by Quasimodo, Nov 2 2010, 09:42 AM.
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Quasimodo

And unrelated, but one for abb:


http://cryrape.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html

November 1, 2010


Lake Charles, La. —

On Thursday, September 23, the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office arrested Tyler J. Leger, 19, of Lake Charles, for the alleged rape of a McNeese State University student. Last week his accuser was arrested after admitting to fabricating her story.

[Name of the suspect given before any proof of crime...]

"I can tell you without reservation we absolutely had probable cause to arrest this man based on the information we had and that's unfortunate for him," said Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso in a press conference Tuesday.

With information given to deputies by the alleged victim, Kolbie M. Wade, 18, of Lake Charles, Leger was arrested without incident at McNeese while he was attending class. He was booked into the Calcasieu Correctional Center and charged with forcible rape. He remained in jail on a $750,000 bond set by Judge Michael Canaday.

After the arrest of Leger, and while the investigation was continuing forward, more information regarding the case became available to detectives. With this information, detectives interviewed several new witnesses which led to another interview with Wade. She continued to allege she was raped by Leger.

After the witnesses' information was verified to be true, detectives met with the District Attorney's Office on Tuesday, October 19, to discuss the case. After reviewing the facts of the case, it was decided the rape charge against Leger should be dismissed. Leger was immediately released from jail.

[The DA actually reviewed the evidence?]

On October 20, the day after Leger was released from jail, Wade admitted to detectives she had fabricated the story of the rape. She confirmed that she did not know Leger and did not give a reason why she made up the story. Wade was arrested and booked into the Calcasieu Correctional Center and charged with criminal mischief. She bonded out later that day. She has no prior criminal history.

(snip)

"I think it's important for the public to know that we have a safe campus. I think the McNeese police department does a great job and McNeese does a great job with ensuring the safety of our kids that go to school there," he added.

[For whom is it safe? Is it safe for males who may be accused of rape by someone they don't even know?]

"I think our detectives did a great job, not just in the beginning of this case but following through with the case and subsequently figuring out that this crime did not occur."

"We need to make sure that women in our community understand that they need to report when an allegation of rape occurs and let us investigate it. Women need to be protected and our society needs to be protected from predators," said Mancuso. "What can't happen, obviously, is people fabricating stories and making up things."

[A confused response by someone confronting a story that is non-PC : "...women...need to report...need to be protected...and our society needs to be protected..." but OTOH (confusion returns) well, "what can't happen, obviously, is people...making things up". IE, the main focus is still on rape, not on protecting the rights
of the falsely-accused. But all the mantras about "rape" still have to be repeated, as an obligatory preface...]


"Incidents of false reporting are taken seriously because someone's freedom is ultimately taken away here for a period of time," according to MSU Chief of Police Cinnamon Salvador.

[Does it seem like they were taken seriously? I will believe that when I see what penalty the false accuser gets.]
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Quasimodo


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Now, what about Tawana and Mangum...?


One sentence struck me in this story:

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/fl-sushi-chef-rapist-20101102,0,3179166.story

'Sushi-chef rapist' of South Beach sentenced to 40 years in prison

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"You have irreparably changed the lives of your victims by your behavior," Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Ellen Sue Venzer told him. "I do believe this sentence will sufficiently guarantee you do no more harm to our citizens."
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