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The Evening Standard
January 19, 2004
False complaints
Letter to
the Editor
by Darryl Ward, Raumati Beach
Your story about the police being sick of receiving
fictitious rape complaints comes as no surprise (January 14). False
allegations of sexual (and other) abuse are at a pandemic level, and are made
up for many reasons, such as for making ACC claims, destroying a person's
credibility in Family Court hearings and sometimes just attention seeking.
They are horrific crimes against humanity and against the persons falsely
accused. They are also a complete waste of police resources, not to mention
an affront to the many genuine victims of abuse that do exist out there.
There is but one suitable penalty for making false accusations and that is to
give the slanderous accuser the same penalty that their intended victim would
have received.
Not only would this make people think twice about making false accusations
against others, but it would be impossible to think of a more just
punishment.
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