Another Lying Young Woman Ruins Young Men's Lives with a False Rape Accusation

I'm so happy this is my own blog and not broadcast TV where I could be fined for spewing profanity or using vulgarity, especially when I want to talk about someone who seriously pissed me off. Censorship inhibits free expression.


First I would like to know what Fox anchorman Ernie Anastos was talking about when he told a weatherman on his network to "Keep fucking that chicken." At least NBC's Sue Simmons used a variation of the word "fuck" in a more comprehensible manner when she simply asked someone on air, "What the fuck are you doing?" (More on that in a second.)


Apparently, the recent profane slip-up was not Ernie's first offense. But I doubt he'd truly give a shit because fining him would be a slap on the wrist just like it must have been a few years back when Janet Jackson had that wardrobe malfunction onstage with Justin Timberlake and the FCC came down on them. If Ernie keeps this up though, he should have a blog if he doesn't already so he can curse to his heart's content like I do on here and then go back to work at Fox with a mouth as clean as a whistle.


I want to talk about a media item that "seriously pissed me off," to quote myself in a previous paragraph, a criminal case that never should have been. 

I'm talking about that young woman who made the local news in the metropolitan New York area and CNN for accusing five men of raping her in a dormitory bathroom at Hofstra. When I initially saw this in Newsday along with articles about Annie Le, the Yale University graduate student who was found murdered on the day she would have married Jonathan Widawsky, a Huntington, Long Island resident, memories of past rape incidents on the Hofstra campus echoed in my mind. The school is surrounded by pockets of high crime, so it didn't surprise me in the least.

When I was a law student at Hofstra, we received a notice that an unidentified man kidnapped a woman from the parking lot by the building where business classes are held and subsequently raped her. My mother immediately panicked because I used to visit my then boyfriend who rented a room in one of the houses not far from that lot.

Shortly after my graduation, I was dating a police officer who informed me that not too long ago there was another rape on the campus. A freshman was unpacking her things and moving into a dorm with her boyfriend's help when a man snatched her away and raped her. That suspect was later apprehended while he was held in the Nassau County Correctional Center on an unrelated charge.

I don't recall whether or not the first alleged rapist was caught, but I do remember the relief I felt when they found and convicted the man who raped the freshman. So naturally, I was relieved that the District Attorney's office had immediately apprehended four suspects in what we as the public believed was a rape committed against a young college student.

The men's photos along with their names and addresses were plastered all over the pages of every local newspaper any New Yorker could think of.  One of them was a Hofstra student. To the lay person without legal training, it was justifiable punishment, the humiliation of having the world see your face after you committed a vile criminal act like sexual assault.  According to the victim, five men had tied her up and raped her.  While four of them were booked, the investigation continued as police were still looking for the fifth suspect who was still at large.

And then the fifth alleged rapist came forward but not to turn himself in.

He produced a cell phone video of the alleged rapists in action.  It featured one of the culprits having sex with the so-called victim.  Upon this discovery, the young woman recanted her accusations.  What really had occurred was a six person orgy among college-aged adults, completely consensual between all parties. It was obvious that no crime had occurred, so the accused were released.

But, five innocent men had been unfairly scrutinized. And there may still be some people with doubts about their innocence. An accusation, no matter how ridiculous, still raises an eyebrow.

This mischievous little brat should be charged with a crime and ordered to pay monetary damages to the five men she victimized.  Suspension from school is not enough, just a vacation from the stress she had brought on herself. What the fuck were you doing, young lady? You had everyone in hysterics.

I don't know if this is true, but someone told me this young lady lied about being raped because in reality she was cheating on her boyfriend five times over in one night and was afraid he would find out.  According to this unconfirmed oral report, her boyfriend found her after the alleged rape looking as though she had hot sex. It was then, this person told me, that she decided to lie about being raped. And then came the report to the DA's office. (You see, this is one of the reasons I'm pissed off about not being appreciated by guys. I never have and never would in the future cheat on a boyfriend or husband, let alone commit a crime to cover up my fault.)

One day the papers quoted Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice as saying that this was a troubled young woman. It almost sounded like she just pitied her for being young and stupid like so many college students are. A day or two later, an official at the DA's office said that charges against the false accuser were "likely."

Experts have said that Rice is in a difficult position. She would want to charge this young lady to show that people should not knowingly report a crime when none had occurred, that it's a crime in and of itself to do so. On the other hand, they said, she may fear that by charging the young woman it will prevent false accusers from coming clean and in the long run lead to wrongful convictions.

I don't think it's about weighing the pros and cons of charging in this case. It's more political.

This couldn't have come at a worse time for the District Attorney. We are less than two months away from an election for the position she now holds. Right now, it will be difficult for the public to believe that Rice's decision is anything but political.  Within a day or so of Rice describing the accuser as troubled, Joy Watson, the former head of the Sex Crimes Bureau under former DA Denis Dillon and Rice's opponent in this year's race, criticized her for not actively seeking to press charges.

It was perfect campaign ammunition. Ideally, it should be solely at Rice's discretion. She has nothing to lose by charging the young woman. She certainly would not be wrong in doing so. Her position was in contrast to that of the now disbarred former Durham DA Mike Nifong who charged three innocent men in the Duke Lacrosse false rape accusation case a few years ago after he knew of exculpatory evidence.

I remember how the media focused like a laser on one of the accused players Colin Finnerty. He was a bright young man from my hometown Garden City, NY who graduated from Chaminade High School with honors and athletic accolades, the kind you would want your daughter to bring home from college as a fiance.

Immediately, there were reports that Finnerty was arrested in Maryland on an unrelated charge. The papers showed a photo of his parents' upscale home. They portrayed him and his friends as privileged spoiled brats and right away the public was led to believe some snotty rich frat boys with silver spoons in their mouths thought they were above the law.

And Mike Nifong was there, fighting for the little guy, it appeared, making it known that money wasn't going to keep him from prosecuting spoiled young punks who dared to victimize Crystal Mangum, an impoverished, underprivileged young woman who worked as a stripper to pay her way through college at a less prestigious institution nearby.

Nifong was up for re-election that year and trying to win votes from community members he felt would be sympathetic toward Mangum's plight as the victim of a barbaric act by privileged men from an elite university. He was willing to risk his license to practice law for a chance to hold on to political power. And in doing so, he lost everything - rightfully so.

I regret that Mangum was not prosecuted for her false accusations against the lacrosse players. It's a general consensus that these three men were innocent, but they will always remember what it feels like to be negatively scrutinized. I recently heard from a relative of a member of the lacrosse team who expressed to me that Mangum put her family through hell.

And to add insult to injury, the bitch wanted to publish a memoir in 2008! I say let her write it and use the proceeds to pay back the three men and their families for the pain she caused!


This is not an endorsement of Kathleen Rice, but I must say I commend her for her integrity, for not continuing to pursue charges against the five men in the Hofstra case for the sake of political gain in an election yearupon the discovery of exculpatory evidence, quite a difference from Nifong's crooked behavior.