Confused after report of rape

[RFLH]

I still can't understand the way the police work - seems they go for the easy option and lesser paperwork.

Have you been offered any counselling?

[MerlinScot]

We do our best to only help those that are falsely accused.

Please keep posting and we'll do our best to help you too. The only thing I can suggest is to keep hassling the police.

Thanks a lot!! I feel like I've been falsely accused of lying. I'm trying to be strong but after being raped having to deal with the police became an unbearable weight.

At the moment, everything is stuck into the Crown Office, so I'm hassling a bit the Procurator Fiscal, it seems fair to me that they should decide what they want to do with my case. It's really discouraging to see that my ex was let free after few days and I'm still waiting to know if I'll be prosecuted or not.

[MerlinScot]

Because it seems quite a big topic of discussion to defend "suspected rapists" but it's never taken into consideration the rape victims.

It seems the problem of rape victims/false accusations starts in the society, more worried about the consequences of accusing someone innocent than the fact rape scars a woman for life. I'm not going to forget it, ever. No matter if my life will be better or worse in one year or more.

I was also interested to understand why I had been accused to waste the police time and that's why I googled that phrase. Although police never used that words, but "wasting their time and energy" is the equivalent to say I lied.

Statistics are not of any help in this case. Rape Crisis Scotland defines the percentage of false rape allegations around 2%.
It seems like police statistics are higher, around 6%, but I wonder why now.
Many rape victims are pressured into recanting their statements. I've firsthand knowledge of this, given that I had been shoveled in a cell and asked to undress, so that I was phisically put under pressure (same treatment used by inteligence guys to make spies and criminals confess), feeling cold and uneasy. I'd bet many victims recant their statements after the detention, even if it's only for few hours.

Anyway, up here it seems that this behavious is common practice, unfortunately: http://brennybaby.blogspot.co.uk/201...condemned.html

[RFLH]

I'm so sorry that this has happened to you and the person who committed them has walked away.

We do our best to only help those that are falsely accused - if what it written doesn't add up or as time goes on we realise that all is not what it should be (between us we can normally spot the liar) then we no longer help them and bar them.

What you have described is exactly the reverse of what the chaps on here are going through - both in their own way are horrific and never gotten over.

Please keep posting and we'll do our best to help you too. The only thing I can suggest is to keep hassling the police.

[Casehardened]

Just got here after I googled "false accusations of rape". I was just curious why online there are so many threads or websites about people falsely accused of rape.

Bearing in mind your particular circumstances, I'm curious as to why you would have googled this particular phrase

[MerlinScot]

Hello everybody,

Just got here after I googled "false accusations of rape". I was just curious why online there are so many threads or websites about people falsely accused of rape.

I live in Scotland and I went through the painful process of reporting my ex boyfriend to the police for rape and domestic abuse. In only two weeks, police didn't even care to investigate much, questioned my ex and then they turned on me, going straight for the false accusation crime against me.
In conclusion, my ex was let free of getting away with all the harm he had done to me and I'm still waiting to know what will happen to me after 3 months!!
The fact that there's no corroborative evidence implies that all raped women are lying?
If I want to be honest, police even cut me off from providing evidence that my ex was a schizophrenic, a pervert and a violent person, focusing more on blaming me than him!!
And they clutched at straws to put the blame on me, given that I never drank or did drugs, and I was never promiscous.
I was detained for two hours at a police station, without a lawyer.

I mean, is this kind of behaviour common?

Apart from the fact that I got physical injuries after being raped 4 times (after being continuously abused for one year), what angers me the most is that historical rape is considered a lie only because the victim didn't report it when it happened.

It would be easier to say "If this didn't happen recently, don't report it or it could backfire on you".

Wonder why rape associations try to convince us to report. The process of reporting someone to police is awful and it's even more hurtful not being believed, it's unbelievable that people think loads of women can make things up for fun.