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This page last updated Dec 14
2006
18-year-old-woman -
December - Auckland
new Dec 14 2006
Auckland police investigated what they described as
a "frightening abduction" of a woman by "three north African
men". Later in the day the police
made a statement that the woman has told them the complaint was false
Abduction false
2006-1213 - Newstalk ZB
- Auckland abduction claim false
2006-1213 - Stuff - Teen
admits she was not abducted
2006-1213 - Radio NZ -
Teenager withdraws abduction claims
Initial claims
2006-1213 - One News -
Woman abducted in Newmarket
2006-1213 - Radio Live -
Alleged daylight abduction
2006-1213 - Newstalk ZB - Woman
abducted in Auckland
2006-1213 - Radio NZ - Police
looking for three men allegedly involved in abduction
25-year-old-woman - October
- Christchurch
Woman admitted making false allegation of sexual violation; Her partner spent
11 days in custody as a result, and then while on bail subjected to strict
curfew. She told police she had invented
the assault and had in fact consented to sex. She said she made the
allegations up to get her partner out of her life and win custody of the
children.
2006-1019 - The Press - False
claim puts woman in trouble
21-year-old man - September
- Christchurch
A man admitted
making a false complaint after he earlier claimed that he was abducted
2006-0925 - Dominion Post
- False complaint (New Dec 14 2006)
48-year-old-woman -
September - New Plymouth
Woman
denied making a false rape complaint when she appeared before the court. She
was remanded on bail for a status hearing on November 3
2006-0929 - Taranaki Daily News -
Hoaxer told she's a pain in the neck
2006-0724 - Radio NZ - False
complaints
21-year-old-woman -
September - Christchurch
A woman
has been charged with making a false rape complaint against champion jockey
Michael Walker, the former "wild boy" of New Zealand racing. The
Napier woman, 21, is believed to be known to Walker, 22. In court she pleaded
guilty and sentenced to 100 hours community work
2006-1026 - Dominion Post -
Rape by jockey untrue, woman admits in court (New Dec 14 2006)
2006-0925 - Waikato Times -
Woman charged with false complaint against jockey
2006-0925 - NZ Herald - False rape
claim charge
2006-0924 - Sunday News - Shock
for top jockey
2006-0924 - Sunday Star Times - Jockey
in the clear
2006-0924 - Newstalk ZB - Arrest
for false rape complaint
29-year-old man - September
- Timaru
A
Timaru man dialled 111 and claimed his neighbour was threatening to kill him
with a knife, because he wanted attention
2006-0920 - Timaru
Herald - Attention-seeking emergency call (New Dec 14 2006)
Paediatrician and CYF - September - Wellington
A mother was wrongly accused of harming her son, and
lost most
of the first year of her young son's life. It took a prolonged Family Court
battle for the woman to prove she did not have Munchausen's syndrome by proxy
(MSBP) - and to regain custody of her son. Australian anti-MSBP campaigner
Michael Nott says it is "almost impossible" for women who are
falsely accused to clear their names.
2006-0917 - Sunday Star Times -
Custody battle finally over for mum
15-year-old girl -
September - New Plymouth
Girl makes accusations against her 40 year old father. Defence lawyer
describes accusations as pack of lies. Man is acquitted of four charges
including rape; Jury cannot reach decision on fifth indecent assault charge;
2006-0909 - Taranaki Daily
News - Man acquitted
2006-0907 - Taranaki Daily News -
Girl tells court of father's betrayal
15-year-old-girl - August -
Christchurch
Police
have referred a 15-year old girl to Youth Aid after she admitted lying about
being raped
2006-0831 - The Press - Girl lied
about rape
22-year-old woman - August
- Christchurch
An
innocent man spent six days in custody after a woman made a false assault
complaint. She admitted a charge of making a false complaint. Judge Stephen
Erber told her that what she did affected the credibility of legitimate
victims who could have their genuine complaint viewed more sceptically
2006-0825 - The Press - Man jailed
after woman's false complaint (New Dec 14 2006)
Unknown Age - August - New
Plymouth
Man had rape and indecent assault charges
dismissed when prosecutor offered no
evidence
2006-0822 - Taranaki Daily News -
Rape case dismissed
15-year-old girl - July -
New Plymouth
A jury took less than an hour to acquit a former schoolmate of the
complainant. Complainant had given "unreliable evidence, was
intoxicated, and in fact had never been in the house" "She started telling stories that she
got stuck with"
2006-0801 - Taranaki Daily
News - Naming unfair
2006-0729 - Taranaki Daily News
- Teenager not guilty of rape
2006-0727 - Taranaki Daily News
- Teen in tears at rape trial
2006-0330 - Taranaki Daily
News - Teenager faces rape trial
2006-0216 - Taranaki Daily News
- Rape-charge teen
Three girls (unrelated
cases) - July - New Plymouth
In three separate unrelated cases girls made false
sex complaints, police believe. The girls were not charged.
2006-0724 - Radio NZ - False
complaints
16-year-old-girl - July -
New Plymouth
Girl referred to Youth aid for making a false sex complaint
2006-0724 - Radio NZ - False
complaints
31-year-old-woman - July -
Masterton
An Upper Hutt
woman who accused her partner of trying to strangle her has admitted she made
it up. She was sentenced to 40 hours' community work for making a false
statement
2006-0721 - Dominion Post -
Attack story made up
53-year-old-woman - July -
Auckland
1: Crime
reported:
Serious allegations: A woman is in hospital
with burns after allegedly being abducted from outside her home, driven to
the Auckland Domain and set on fire
2006-0706
- NZ Herald - I was abducted and set on fire, woman tells police
2: Police Inquiries "woman made it
all up":
An
Auckland woman who claimed to have been abducted and set on fire earlier this
month made it all up, a police investigation has found. It is understood police are considering
charging the woman
2006-0712 - NZ Herald - Domain
kidnapping inquiry continues
2006-0714 - Newstalk ZB -
Abduction allegation appears untrue
2006-0714 - Stuff - 'Abducted'
Auckland woman made it up
2006-0714 - NZ Herald - Domain
'abduction' did not happen, police say
3. Woman charged with arson and false
complaint
Police said the woman had appeared in Auckland District Court accused of
arson and making a false complaint
2006-0831 - NZ Herald -
'Kidnapped' woman charged with arson, false complaint
2006-0831 - Stuff - 'Kidnapped'
woman charged with arson
2006-0901 - Dominion Post - False
claim (New Dec 14 2006)
40-year-old-man - July -
Wellington
A 40 year old man made historical sex abuse accusations
against a 47 year old company director, claiming that he had been abused
between the ages of 11 and 15. He was acquitted. The defence lawyer said the pair had
engaged in mutual sexual activity when the boy was over the age of 16, and
the accuser had mistaken the timing of the events.
2006-0715 - Stuff - Man not guilty of
historical sex abuse charges
2006-0715 - Dominion Post -
Sex charges acquittal
Teenage Male - July -
Wellington
A jury
took less than five hours to acquit a former Rimutaka Prison guard of one
charge of indecently assaulting a teenage child sex offender in jail. The
jury failed to agree on a second indecent assault charge.
2006-0715 - Dominion Post
- Guard acquitted on indecency charge
Woman-Early-Twenties - July
- Palmerston North
A
visiting English rugby team has been cleared of wrongdoing after a Palmerston
North woman claimed she was raped after a drunken night out
After
investigating, police had cleared the player and his teammates. No charges
would be laid. It appeared the woman had too much to drink and did not
remember having sex, Mr Clifford said.
2006-0706 - Dominion Post
- Players cleared in rape claim
16-year-old girl - June -
Timaru
A
16-year-old Timaru girl has been referred to youth aid in relation to a false
allegation of abduction
2006-0620 - Timaru Herald
- False complaint (New Dec 14 2006)
27-year-old-woman - June -
Palmerston North
The
pair met on the internet NZDating.com swapping sexually explicit email, chat
room and text messages before arranging to meet at the woman's home. They had
sex, and he was accused of rape. The defence lawyer said the woman regretted
having sex with his client but what happened in her bedroom that night was
consensual. He was acquitted - as he heard the "Not Guilty"
verdict, he put his head in his hands and cried
2006-0613 - Manawatu
Standard - Net date brings rape charge
2006-0614 - Manawatu
Standard - Rape accused sent nude photos
2006-0615 - Manawatu
Standard - Accused 'misread signals'
2006-0616 - Manawatu
Standard - Internet sex man found not guilty of rape
Woman-Early-Thirties - June
- Timaru
A 2005 rape case, declared a false allegation case in June 2006.
The
case was given prominent publicity when the allegations were made, but when found
to be a false statement, the case was only nominally reported. Not only was
the report only briefly mentioned, but it was buried at the bottom of report
of a completely different case involving sex abuse charges against another
man.
PeterEllis.org is appalled at the double standard involved by the media.
1: Crime reported:
"Timaru
police are hunting for two men after a woman was abducted at knife point
outside a pub on Monday night and taken to Caroline Bay and raped". The
complaint was specific in details and made against "two Maori
males"
2005-0112
- Timaru Herald - Woman abducted from pub, raped
2005-0113 - Timaru Herald -
'Helpful leads' in rape inquiry
2: "Victim" embellishes story
to media
"The
woman at the centre of last week's knifepoint abduction and rape in Timaru
said yesterday that the offenders had shattered her dreams." "She spoke out because she wants the
offenders and their supporters to know what they have done to her and her
children"
2005-0118 - Timaru Herald -
Rape victim tells of how dreams were destroyed
2005-0118 - The Press - Rapists ruin
hope of new life
3: Janet Lorimer of Womens Refuge
easily duped, and makes statement
Janet Lorimer claims to know: "There are rumours going around,
that she was crying
wolf and that is not true"
"It was awful. The sobbing just wouldn't stop.
. It was the most
terrible thing" "I don't know she will ever get over it. I hope
she'll get angry soon"
PeterEllis.org
says that organisations like Refuge should provide support for complainants,
but says that such support should not be dependent on throwing away all
scepticism.
2005-0119 - Timaru Herald
- Refuge urges women to speak up over rape
4: Investigations continue and after 15
months determination of "false statement"
At the bottom of a report about a completely separate case of a man being
charged with intent to rape, the police "warn" the woman for making
a false statement.
2005-0330 - Timaru Herald
- Investigation still continuing
2006-0621 - Timaru Herald - Charge for historic rape
16-year-old-girl - June -
Wellington
Accusation against Primary School Teacher
Case thrown out by Judge as "impossible"
A 42 year old
teacher was accused by a 16 year old girl of rape alleged to have occurred
when the girl was seven. The teacher was stood down from teaching duties
until trial which occurred in June 2006, 13 months after the accusation was
made. The girl claimed that, after
having sex education, she was able to make sense of her memories. "These
are definite memories, not fantasies. I remember the feeling of being raped.
I cannot have imagined it."
But after evidence was presented in Court, the judge threw out the case
before the jury could consider the evidence. The judge found it "implausible, then unlikely
and then impossible" that offences had been committed.
Index of (23)
news reports on the case
Press
Release by peterellis.org.nz after the case was ended
Man acquitted of four sex
charges - June - Wellington
A 21
year old man was acquitted of four sex charges, including rape, involving a
mentally ill woman. He was found guilty of attempting to defeat the course of
justice. After the alleged incident he had tried to give the woman $10,000 to
withdraw the complaint.
2006-0621 - Stuff - Man, 21, cleared of four
sex charges
6-year-old girl - June -
Auckland Court
Retracted allegations aged 8, man freed from prison
A man
who has spent nearly two years in jail for sexually assaulting a child has
had the conviction quashed after the complainant retracted her claims. The
girl, now 8, claimed her mother's partner committed indecencies on her when
she was five or six.
2006-0620 - Dominion Post -
Court quashes child sex verdict
2006-0620 - Taranaki
Daily News - Girl retracts abuse claims
Man - June - Invercargill
A man
who claimed he had been shot, sparking an armed offenders squad operation in Invercargill
yesterday, has been charged with making a false complaint.
2006-0608 - Southland
Times - False complaint charge (New Dec 14 2006)
Man - June - Christchurch
A
Christchurch bus driver who told police he had been attacked by a woman at a
bus stop has been sentenced to 200 hours of community service for wasting
police time. He made the false complaint to police in May, just weeks after
another bus driver had been attacked by a group of young girls in the city.
His injuries were, in fact, sustained by falling down the steps of his bus
2006-0601 - Radio NZ - Bus driver
arrested for making false complaint
(New Dec 14 2006)
2006-0601 - Stuff - Man charged with
false complaint over alleged bus assault
2006-0915 - Radio NZ - Bus driver
gets 200 hours community work (New Dec 14 2006)
15-year-old girl - June -
Patea
Girl made accusation against 45 year old farmer. A doctor found no evidence
supporting or refuting her claim. ESR found no traces of semen. The man stood in the public
gallery embracing supporters after his release.
2006-0603 - Taranaki Daily News
- Rape accused not guilty
15-year-old girl - June -
New Plymouth
Girl, described by defence as a mixed up young woman
who manipulated and lied to get her own way, made an accusation of indecent
assault and sexual violation. The man was found not guilty based on a defence
that centred on the credibility of the witness.
2006-0530 - Taranaki Daily
News - Sobs as young teen tells of sex attack
2006-0601 - Taranaki
Daily News - Groundsman not guilty
Woman in her 40s - May -
Wellington
Woman made accusations against a man she met through an internet dating
service. The defence described the complaint as false and the complainant not
credible. "She was embellishing what happened to try to get attention from other people,
who then put pressure on her to go to the police".
Evidence based on emails, phone sex and her behaviour suggested that they had
engaged in consensual sex. The man was
cleared of all charges.
2006-0523 - Stuff - Internet dating
and phone sex get public airing in court
2006-0524 - Stuff - Internet dating
accuser just a 'drama queen' - defence
2006-0525 - Stuff - Internet dater
found not guilty of sexual violation
21-year-old-woman - May -
Cromwell
A visiting
French winemaker was accused of rape by a 21-year-old woman who claimed he
had sex with her after drugging her glass of wine. No evidence of drugs were
found, and as a result no charges were laid
2006-0524 - Southland Times -
French winemaker accused of rape
2006-0524 - The Press - Winemaker
accused of drugging, rape
2006-0605 - The Press - No rape
evidence
47-year-old-woman - May -
Christchurch
1: Crime reported:
A massive
manhunt is under way for a man who repeatedly stabbed a middle-aged woman as
she jogged through a northern Christchurch park. The traumatised and bloodied
woman managed to stagger more than 50m to a road before collapsing in front
of shocked motorists after the unprovoked stabbing in the Styx Mill Reserve
yesterday afternoon
2006-0519 - The Press - Woman
jogger stabbed in park
2: Crime investigated; Public Concerns
Christchurch
police
. urging residents to be careful.
Detective Senior Sergeant Grant Wormald, heading the investigation, said
police had fielded many calls about possible sightings of the attacker, and
some had provided potential suspects' names.
..Police hunting for a man who stabbed a woman as she jogged through
a northern Christchurch park are sifting through a huge amount of information
2006-0520 - The Press -
Attack frightens residents
2006-0521 - Sunday Star Times - Park
attacks prompt warnin
2006-0522 - The Press -
Stabbing brings calls
2006-0523 - The Press - Stab leads
studied
2006-0524 - The Press -
Stabbing inquiry
3: Claim "false"
The
Christchurch woman who claimed she was attacked and stabbed by a man in the
Styx Mill Reserve last month will be charged with making a false complaint to
the police
. "attack never happened and that her injuries were self-inflicted".
2006-0615 - Newstalk ZB -
Stabbing claim labelled false by Christchurch police
2006-0615 - Newstalk ZB - Woman
made false attack claim
2006-0615 - Stuff -
Christchurch jogging attack claim not true police
2006-0615 - NZ Herald -
'Attacked' woman jogger charged
2006-0616 - The Press - Police
allege jogger's wounds self-inflicted
2006-0616 - One News - Jogger
fakes attack, faces charges
4: Court Sequel
Police
have offered diversion to a woman who falsely claimed she had been stabbed
while jogging
The woman stood trembling in the dock
Judge Oke Blaikie
ordered that interim name suppression continue
..withdraws not guilty plea
and seeks diversion
2006-0616 - Newstalk ZB -
Diversion offered in false complaint case
2006-0628 - One News -
Suppression in false statement case
2006-0628 - Stuff - Accused in
court over false attack claim
2006-0629 - The Press -
Defendant trembles in dock
2006-0705 - Stuff - False assault
claim accused withdraws not guilty plea
2006-0706 - The Press -
Stabbing hoax
5. Discharged
Discharged with name suppression after completing police diversion
2006-0817 - Timaru
Herald - Conviction avoided (New Dec 14 2006)
2006-0816 - The Press -
'Stabbed' jogger clear (New Dec 14 2006)
Adult male - May -
Wellington
A jury took less than an hour to acquit a man accused of an allegation of
historical sex assault
2006-0503 - NZ Herald - Man
cleared of sex abuse of boys in 1980s
Adult female - May -
Wellington
Charges dismissed against a man accused of sexually abusing his deaf daughter
for more than 20 years. The judge said that the complainant "struggled with concepts
such as truth, lies and promises and did not understand the roles of judge,
lawyer or jury". An earlier hearing had seen similar charges against her
uncle dismissed.
2006-0503
- Dominion Post - Abuse case dismissed
2006-0406 - Dominion Post -
Deaf woman ruled incompetent in trial
2006-0404 - Dominion Post -
Father, uncle charged with abusing deaf woman
26-year-old-woman - April -
Auckland
An
Auckland woman dials 111 and tells police she has been slashed with a sword,
then makes more calls saying she is bleeding badly. She is found three hours
later, at home in bed, unharmed.
2006-0418 - Dominion Post
- Police find 111 hoaxer in bed
26-year-old-woman - March -
Wellington
1: Crime reported:
"A woman
was kidnapped as she walked along a Wellington street, and was later chased
by her attackers through a popular bush reserve"
"managed to force
her assailants to stop, then ran partly clad through Wilton Bush"
2006-0317 - NZ Herald -
Wellington woman abducted
2006-0317 - Dominion Post -
Abducted woman flees through bush
2: Crime investigated
Police
are calling for help from the public to find two men who abducted a woman in
Wellington on Wednesday night
2006-0317
- Newstalk ZB - Wellington woman's abduction ordeal
2006-0317 - Newstalk ZB - Info on
abduction wanted
3: Crime false report:
Police
investigating
.now believe the complaint was false. They have arrested a
26-year-old woman and charged her with attempting to pervert the course of
justice. The woman pleaded guilty, and sentenced to community work. She made the false claim "because she
was angry with the police"
2006-0317 - Radio NZ -
Wellington woman charged over false abduction complaint (New Dec 14 2006)
2006-0317 -
Newstalk ZB - Abduction complaint false, say police
2006-0317 - NZ Herald - Woman's
abduction claim false police say
2006-0318 - Dominion Post -
'Kidnapped' woman arrested
2006-0706 - Dominion Post -
False rape claimant angry with police
2006-0826 - Dominion Post
- Woman sentenced on false attack claims
(New Dec 14 2006)
17-year-old girl - February
- Nelson
A
Christchurch teenager accused of making a false rape complaint against two
men while on holiday in Nelson faces being arrested after failing to attend a
court hearing. She allegedly told friends she had been raped but was carried
along with the lie when the police became involved.
2006-0216 - Nelson Mail -
Teenager misses court appearance (New Dec 14 2006)
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