'This happened': A grad student refused to recant her rape accusation even after police arrested her
Source: Washington Post
‘This happened’: A grad student refused to recant her rape accusation even after police arrested her and said she lied
By Katie Shepherd
Oct. 29, 2019 at 7:12 a.m. EDT
In the shadow of a red-brick hospital surrounded by neatly manicured grass, a University of Kansas graduate student told three police officers she had been recently raped following a night of drinking with close friends during homecoming weekend in September 2018. She said she didn’t want to press charges or file a formal police report — she just wanted to preserve any evidence in case another woman ever came forward with a similar accusation.
The police asked to look at her phone. She handed it over.
In one of the messages, sent just 16 minutes before the woman met with the officers at the hospital, she called the encounter “borderline rape,” KCTV reported, and said she had “the bruises and statements to prove it.” In other texts sent to a friend in the hours after the 30-year-old woman woke up — still drunk, naked and confused in the Lawrence, Kan., apartment of her then-boyfriend’s best friend — she expressed regret and made jokes about what had happened.
“It’s gross … he’s actually really good at sex though,” she texted. A short while later, she texted the same friend: “Get here fast. I’m literally about to have a breakdown.” She told police she’d sent those messages to “downplay” what had happened, and couldn’t remember typing some of the messages sent right after the alleged attack. Her friend told police the woman’s reactions made her believe she had been raped, KCTV reported.
Those texts later became the heart of a police investigation into the woman and a criminal charge filed in January for allegedly making a false report of rape.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/29/this-happened-grad-student-refused-recant-her-rape-accusation-even-after-police-arrested-her-lying/
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Source: Associated Press
Kansas: charges dropped against student accused of falsely reporting rape
Associated Press in Lawrence
Tue 29 Oct 2019 12.46 GMT
Last modified on Tue 29 Oct 2019 14.49 GMT
Prosecutors are dropping all charges against a University of Kansas student accused of falsely reporting a rape, saying they fear publicity surrounding the case could discourage sexual assault victims from coming forward.
Douglas county district attorney Charles Branson said on Monday three felony counts of making a false report were dropped after much discussion.
His office believed in the merits of the case, he said, but the “cost to our community and the negative impact on survivors of sexual violence cannot be ignored”, the Kansas City Star reported.
“We are concerned this case, and the significant amount of misinformation surrounding it, could discourage other survivors from reporting their attack,” Branson said. “That is unacceptable.”
Cheryl Pilate and Branden Bell, attorneys for the woman, said that though they were pleased their client could “finally put this nightmare behind her”, they were “disappointed that the DA’s office continues to promote the fiction that this case was supported by the facts”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/29/university-kansas-student-falsely-reporting-rape-charges
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