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This page last updated July 25 2006
17-year-old-woman - December
- Nelson
A
17-year-old, embarrassed about a drunken sexual encounter with two men in a
Nelson park, will be charged with making a false statement to police. Six
detectives were assigned to the case after the young woman told police she
had been gagged and raped by two men
2005-1231 - Nelson Mail -
Woman charged over rape complaint
2005-1231 - Dominion
Post - Complainant charged
2005-1230 - Stuff - Woman to be
charged after false rape complaint
2005-1230 - One News - Teen
charged over false complaint
2005-1230 - Nelson Mail -
Reports of men on bike
2005-1229 - Stuff - Nelson rape
investigation centres on bike
2005-1229 - Nelson Mail - Bike at
centre of Nelson rape inquiry
28-year-old-woman -
December - New Plymouth
A
28-year-old New Plymouth woman was arrested and charged with making a false
complaint after she claimed she had been bashed unconscious by two women and
had her car stolen
2005-1217 - Daily News -
Woman (28) arrested after making a false complaint
22-year-old-woman -
November - Wellington
A high profile claim …Headlines "Another taxi driver rape
complaint" leading to more public concern about taxi drivers - and then
a (now 23) year old woman is charged with making a false rape complaint
2005-1118 - Dominion
Post - Diversion granted over false rape claim
2005-0915 - Dominion
Post - Diversion granted
2005-0827 - The Press - False rape
complaint
2005-0824 -
Dominion Post - Taxi drivers are vetted
2005-0817 - Newstalk ZB - False
rape complaints affect taxi industry
2005-0817 - One News - Taxi driver
charged with rape
2005-0817 - Dominion Post -
Taxi rape claim was false - police
2005-0808 - Stuff - Rape prompts
warning to taxi passengers
2005-0808 - NZ Herald - Sex attack
on taxi passenger
2005-0808 - Dominion Post - A
woman says she was raped
2005-0808 - Newstalk ZB -
Another taxi driver rape complaint
2005-0806 - One News - Taxi driver
accused of rape
2005-0806 - Newstalk ZB -
Woman alleges attack
Woman - November - Auckland
Former ACT MP Kenneth Wang has accusations of sexual
harassment dismissed. His former employee, Janice Park, took a complaint to the
Employment Relations Authority, alleging sexual harassment by Mr Wang and
unfair dismissal
2005-1108_DominionPost_Ex-MP.htm
14-year-old-girl -
September - Rotorua
A
14-year-old Rotorua girl has been referred to the youth aid service after making
a false complaint. The girl had earlier made a statement to police last month
claiming she had been accosted by three young males who followed her to a
reserve in Western Heights. This had led to significant publicity about the
supposed offence.
2005-0915 - Otago Daily Times - No
charge over false claim
2005-0914 - Daily Post -
Schoolgirl who lied about attack needs intensive counselling
2005-0914 - Dominion Post
- False complaint
2005-0913 - Newstalk ZB - Teen
makes false complaint
2005-0913 - NZ Herald - Teen
'made up' gagged, blindfolded complaint
2005-0829 - NZ Herald - Police ask
dog-owner to help find girl's attackers
2005-0827 - NZ Herald - Teenager
bound, gagged and shorn
15-year-old-girl -
September - Nelson
A
15-year-old girl told police she had been accosted and raped in Nelson. She
said two men accosted her and took her to the Collingwood St bridge, where
one of the men had raped her. Three detectives worked on the inquiry during
Friday before the girl admitted it wasn't true
2005-0913 - Otago Daily Times -
False complaint
2005-0912 - Nelson Mail -
Rape complaint false
Unknown accuser - September
- Auckland
One
Auckland family knows all too well what CYF has to do after they became the
innocent victim of a false claim of sexual abuse. For 24 hours they had to
live with the claim that the father had abused his three-year-old daughter.
2005-0912 - TVNZ Close Up -
Family at centre of false accusations
15-year-old-girl -
September - New Plymouth (hung
jury)
Sex abuser or manipulative teenager?
2005-0903 - Taranaki
Daily News - Jury unable to decide in Taranaki sex abuse case
Girl - August - Auckland
An
Auckland sex offender's 1997 conviction for rape and other crimes has been
quashed after his alleged victim retracted her complaint. The girl said she
had given false evidence, and repeated her retraction in a sworn
statement.
2005-0825 - Dominion Post
- Sex conviction quashed after girl's retraction
37-year-old-woman - August
- Palmerston North
New Reports added July 24 2006
Man acquitted of rape. The man's lawyer argued that the rape accusation was
made up to deny Connolly access to the son he shared with the complainant……"The
complainant) is simply not credible and her account is unreliable and
inconsistent" He called the rape allegations "a pack of lies". The man was acquitted but found guilty of
a charge of threatening to kill for which he received a community sentence.
2005-0916 - Dominion Post -
Threat to kill earns community service
2005-0827 - Manawatu Standard -
Rape accused acquitted
2005-0827 - Dominion Post -
Man guilty on threat count
2005-0826 - Manawatu
Standard - Rape trial jury deliberates
2005-0826 - Dominion Post -
Woman's rape tape rejected as a setup
2005-0825 - Manawatu
Standard - Man denies raping ex-partner
2005-0824 - Dominion Post -
Secret tape made to back rape claim
2005-0824 - Manawatu
Standard - Complainant challenged
20-year-old-man - August -
Auckland (unproven)
This case
is listed here as an unproven case. The allegations may have been false, but
also could have been true. A
56 year old teacher faced allegations of abuse from ten years before - and
committed suicide - An understandable reaction to either facing justice for
what he had done, or from facing the horror of being falsely accused.
2005-0820 - Stuff - Teacher died
while facing sex charges
2005-0820 - NZ Herald - Teacher
died while facing sex charges
14-year-old-girl - August -
Auckland
A
14-year-old girl taken to Starship Hospital early yesterday was so drunk she did
not know what had happened to her. Detective Barren Attwood said the girl was
found abandoned at the rear of shops in West Auckland about lam. A police
statement initially said she had been sexually violated and had made a rape
complaint, but this was later retracted.
2005-0814 - Sunday Star Times - Girl, 14,
drunk and abandoned
~39-year-old-woman - August
- Whangarei
A
Northland man charged with raping his former partner has walked free after
the woman admitted her complaint to police was "not completely true".
The man's lawyer argued in court that the charges should be dismissed because
the complaint had been false. He presented a letter from the woman ….that
said her complaint was not entirely true "in that she consented".
The letter stated she would not sign police documents, that the allegations
were not true and that she would not appear in court
2005-0815 - Stuff - Man cleared of
'not completely true' rape charges
44-year-old-woman - August
- Cambridge
A woman
has been found guilty of making false allegations of rape against police in
what prosecutors say was a bid to derail charges she was facing at the time.
Crown solicitor Simon Moore said the woman first made an allegation …three
days after publicity surrounding Nicholas' case resulted in a high-profile
police officer being suspended. "Given the political climate at the
time, these were very topical disclosures to be taken very seriously,"
Mr Moore said.
2005-0813 - NZ Herald - False sex
complaints earn 5 months' jail
2005-0611 - NZ Herald -
Crown wants jail for false sex claims
2005-0611 - Waikato Times -
Judge rules rape allegations false
2005-0610 - One News - Women found
guilty of false rape claim
2005-0609 - Waikato
Times - Woman unspecific on rape: officer
2005-0608 - Waikato Times -
Woman on trial over rape claims
2005-0608 - NZ Herald - Claims
of rape false, court told
2005-0607 - One News - Woman
facing false rape charges
18-year-old woman - August
- Hamilton
19-year-old woman - August - Hamilton
Two
separate complaints of rape made to Hamilton police have turned out to be
false. They were made by women aged 18 and 19. ……Police have not decided
whether to press charges against the women
2005-0808 - NZ Herald - False rape
complaints annoy police
2005-0808 - Dominion
Post - False complaints
2005-0806 - Newstalk ZB - False
rape complaints
8-year-old girl - July - Dunedin
A jury
yesterday acquitted a 21-year-old man of indecently assaulting an 8-year-old
girl. …..The accused, a Dunedin salesman, who was granted final name
suppression, was charged with indecently assaulting an 8-year-old girl…..
Defence counsel Mike Radford also said the victim was “guessing” some of her
evidence and her evidence did not always correlate with her mother’s.
2005-0726 - Otago Daily Times - Man
acquitted of indecency
20-year-old-woman - July -
Christchurch
More than
20 police took part in an investigation after a Darfield woman falsely
complained of abduction, assault. In
the Christchurch District Court, the 20-year-old woman admitted making a
false statement of crime
2005-0720 - The Press - False
complaint
Woman - July - Rotorua
A
former Rotorua Boys High School 1st XV rugby player has been found not guilty
of rape. The 18 year old had pleaded not guilty at Rotorua District Court to
two charges of raping a woman last August.
2005-0701 - Dominion Post
- Rape acquittal
37-year-old-woman - June -
Mt Maunganui
A woman has made allegations of an historical (1989) pack rape, in a case
connected to the inquiry associated with the Louise Nicholas allegations of
police pack-rape, but not involving Loise Nicholas. The four men on trial
deny the allegations completely, and the case depended on the credibility of
the testimony of the complainant and the men. The four men were found guilty
- a verdict that is destined to remain extremely controversial
Refer Police Rape
Allegations for News Reports;
~30-year-old-woman - June - Dunedin
A Dunedin
man has been acquitted of sexually assaulting his former partner at her home.
The woman told the court on Thursday that Tomlinson had arrived at her house
asking for sex and pushed her into her bedroom where he raped her. She denied
suggestions by the defence that she made up a false story to prevent
Tomlinson having access to his children. The jurors’ findings were greeted by
Tomlinson and his family with cries and tears of relief..
2005-0618 - Otago Daily Times - Jury
finds man not guilty of sex attack
2005-0617 - Otago Daily Times - Woman
says she washed clothes after rape
38-year-old-woman - June -
Christchurch
A former prostitute made an allegation of rape against a police officer. She
said she decided to make the complaint after Louise Nicholas went public with
her allegations of pack rape. The police investigated the complaint, with the
policeman being cleared and no charges being laid.
2005-0620 - Dominion
Post - Policeman cleared
2005-0620 - NZ Herald -
Officer accused of rape in clear
2005-0620 - The Press - No charges
over alleged rape
2004-1020 - One News - New police
rape allegation
2004-1020 - NZ Herald - Rape claim
against police under investigation
2004-1020 - The Press - Rape was 17
years ago, says woman
18-year-old-woman - June -
South Auckland
Woman claimed she had been abducted, driven to Wellington, and forced to
empty her bank account. She asked her mother to put money into the account.
Police discovered she had spent the time drinking in Taupo. She has been charged with making a false
complaint
2005-0616 - NZ Herald - Woman
charged over false kidnap charges
22-year-old-woman - June -
Tauranga
A 44
year old policeman on trial for allegedly sexually violating a prisoner. The
policeman was arrested at about the same time as the significant publicity
associated with the Nicholas rape allegations against the police. The
policeman was acquitted with the jury out for 70 minutes.
2005-0602 - NZ
Herald - Policeman cleared of sexual violation
2005-0601 - Stuff - Policeman
found not guilty of sexual violation
2005-0601 - Otago Daily Times - Money
motive for claim, witness tells court
2005-0530 - Otago Daily Times -
Policeman asked why he was in shower area
2005-0528 - Stuff - Police
officer questioned over women's showers
2005-0528 - Otago Daily Times -
Evidence of violation lacking, policeman says
2005-0527 - Otago Daily Times - Sex
accuser denies beauty comment
2005-0526 - Otago Daily Times - Woman
denies fabricating story
2005-0525 - Otago Daily Times -
Policeman on trial for sexual violation
19-year-old-woman - April -
Nelson
A
19-year-old Nelson woman who accused a man of rape after a party in Nelson
has been charged with making a false statement. The woman will appear in
court on May 10.
2005-0429 - The Press -
Complaint 'false'
18-year-old-woman - April -
Christchurch
A man
was accused by an 18 year old woman, but walked free when security camera
footage backed up his story of consensual sex. Prominent defence lawyer Pip
Hall, who acted for the accused, said "it was a very bad investigation,
in many respects."
2005-0424 - The Press -
Bungled police inquiry slammed
33-year-old-woman - April -
Greymouth
A West
Coast woman dragged her drunken husband home, beat him up, then had him falsely
arrested…. She admitted charges of assault and laying a false complaint
2005-0421 - NZ Herald - Woman
admits she beat up husband
30-year-old-man - April -
Nelson
A
30-year-old man tried to extract $300,000 from his former babysitter over a
historical sexual abuse allegation telling him to "find the money or he
would go to jail", Nelson District Court was told yesterday ………. the
defendant went to the victim's Richmond workplace on January 25. He asked the
man to come outside, and then accused him of sexually molesting him when he
was young. The victim denied the allegation. The defendent then told him he
would report the matter to police unless a total of $300,000 was paid to him
and an associate.
2005-0316 - NZ Herald - Man admits
trying to blackmail babysitter
2005-0421 - NZ Herald - Man jailed
for $300,000 blackmail of babysitter
12-year-old-girl - March -
Christchurch
Police were initially looking for a 40-50 year old man who attempted to drag
a 12 year old girl into a car. Two weeks later the police closed the file as
a false complaint, and referring the girl to Youth Aid
2005-0316 - The Press - False
complaint
2005-0315 - Newstalk ZB -
False abduction claim
2005-0301 - The Press - Police
seek Aranui offender
67-year-old-woman - March -
Waikato
A
north Waikato woman accused of blackmailing her ex-husband with accusations
of rape allegedly told him she would contact police unless he paid their
children thousands of dollars. The 67-year-old, who has name suppression,
denies one charge of blackmail relating to an incident with her ex-husband on
January 5 last year.
2005-0315 - Waikato Times -
Ex-husband 'blackmailed'
2005-0317 - Waikato Times -
Blackmail allegations denied
15-year-old girl - March -
Dunedin
The
15-year-old complainant was declared a hostile witness in an under-age sex
case in the Dunedin District Court. She said her earlier accounts were not
true. She agreed that she had lied under oath at the preliminary
hearing. The trial ended up with a
hung jury, and a new trial ordered.
2005-0304 - Otago Daily Times -
Hostile witnesses in sex case
2005-0305 - Otago Daily Times - New
trial ordered in under-age sex case
19-year-old woman -
February - Dunedin
A
Dunedin woman who claimed she was raped at the weekend has asked police not to
investigate her complaint….. Senior Sergeant Tony Wakelin said three police
officers spent two days investigating the complaint before the woman asked on
Tuesday for the matter to be dropped
2005-0224 - Otago Daily Times - No rape
investigation
15-year-old boy - February
- Marton
Police
investigating the brutal killing of Marton pensioner Mona Morriss have
referred a teenager to youth aid on a charge of making a false statement. The
15-year-old is alleged to have made up a false story in which he identified
the killer.
2005-0226 - Dominion Post -
Teen wasted murder case time, say police
2005-0225 - Newstalk ZB -
Teen in trouble over false story
Woman
(Mother) – February
High Court
judgment has exposed a bitter custody battle in which a woman's false
allegations of sex abuse took two years to disprove because of incompetence
on the part of social services. The injustice -suffered by the father was
compounded when a costs award in his favour was reduced by the High Court
following an omission in a Family Court judge's ruling. The woman – who accused her ex-husband of
sexually abusing their daughter and a son from a previous relationship ……..
2005-0212 - NZ Listener -
Rough justice
26-year-old woman - February - Taupo
Woman
faked a vicious sex attack on the shore of Lake Taupo, The woman had phoned
111 in a distressed state about 4.40am yesterday….Police patrol cars were
immediately sent to look for the woman, who was found lying face down on a
beach, her body partially in the water….. Her clothes were ripped and she
appeared to be unconscious….. …. The woman (later) admitted to police that it
was a hoax….She admitted in court making a false rape complaint where it was
revealed that she has three previous convictions for making false statements
2005-0208 - Taupo Times -
Accused of making false complaint
2005-0208 - Dominion Post -
Rape hoaxer had cried wolf before
2005-0205 - Dominion Post
- Anger at second fake rape claim
2005-0205 - NZ Herald - Police
anger at faked sex attack
2005-0204 - Stuff - Woman fakes sex
attack
15-year-old girl - February - Wellington
The
case began with the police asking for help with their investigation of an
"horrific" and "brutal" gang rape of a girl
"suffering severe trauma". After a couple of days of headlines,
with 15 police officers assigned to the case, the police announced the rape
did not occur, and the girl would be "referred to Youth Aid"
2005-0203 - Dominion Post -
Rape claim 'false'
2005-0203 - The Press - Rape
claim false
2005-0202 - Stuff - Wellington
pack rape allegations unfounded
2005-0202 - Newstalk ZB
- Rape investigation called off
2005-0201 - Dominion
Post - Team investigating rape
2005-0131 - Dominion Post -
Five sought over rape of teen
2005-0130 - Newstalk ZB - Gang
rape investigation in Wellington
30-year-old woman – January – Orari, Timaru
An
Orari woman was yesterday given a two-month prison sentence for making a
false child sexual abuse complaint to Children, Youth and Family. ………Judge
Christopher Somerville described the allegation of child abuse as one of the
worst that could be made. A nine-year-old child had been removed from his
family for five days while CYF investigated the allegation. In October last
year Dalton
telephoned the National Child Youth and Family Call Centre. She gave the call
taker another name and said she had witnessed the complainant sexually
abusing her child.
2005-0127 - Timaru Herald
- Prison for false abuse complaint
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