She cried rape, he went to prison for 6 years. She met up with him years later and admitted to him that she had lied, but said she wasn't willing to admit it to prosecutors because she had been awarded $1,500,000.00

XDingoX83 · 2012-05-26T02:32:52+00:00

Why is the woman not being charge with a crime, and why is her name not being made public in any of these articles?

millertime73 · 2012-05-25T23:02:47+00:00

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ThePigman · 2012-05-26T02:32:57+00:00

Good news for Banks, but what happens to the lying sack of shit? Let me guess -- she just walks away, her freedom an incentive for other women to do the same thing to other innocent men.

Liverotto · 2012-05-26T05:59:44+00:00

Any other Euro in here who thinks it is totally insane for a school to pay $1.5 million to a rape victim?

Isn't that a little incentive to LIE?

BinaryShadow · 2012-05-26T06:00:11+00:00

Why is she rewarded with money? If my family is brutally murdered tomorrow I wouldn't get a dime. All I'd get (and want) is justice. Civil lawsuit, my ass.

Rape is horrible, but it didn't cost her $1.5 million in damages.

rolexxx11 · 2012-05-26T05:00:44+00:00

Also, the classmate Gibson first told about the alleged attack — via the note — said Gibson later admitted to making up the story so her mother wouldn't find out she was sexually active, attorneys said.

I thought this was sort of an interesting statement. As I'm sure all of you know, one of the problems that feminists who are constantly going on about how we live in a "rape culture" mention is the idea that men, just in general, feel entitled to rape the woman. That it's about a power dynamic and differential, that the man who sexually assaults a woman puts more value on his right to sexual satisfaction than he does on the woman's right to bodily integrity.

Now read the quoted statement again. It's not just a "man thing" at all, is it? Woman seem to feel fucking entitled to the option to ruin someone's life just because they are ashamed they are sexually active. They don't value men's rights to NOT have their lives ruined or their reputations trashed over their own selfish desire to not tell mommy they touched a wiener.

Claiming that men are the only ones who exercise selfish and aggressive abuses of power due to some feeling of entitlement is blatantly absurd. Turns out people are fucked up, not men.

littleelf · 2012-05-26T02:02:26+00:00

I don't know anyone I would let be jailed for six years for monetary gain.

Jahonay · 2012-05-26T02:42:52+00:00

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rape-dismiss-20120525,0,3372200.story?track=lanowpicks

Another story on it. So fucked up.

i_poop_splinters · 2012-05-26T03:18:17+00:00

And what will her punishment be? A charge of "filing a false police report"? "Perjury"? None of those carry the life sentence of punishment he has to deal with. This is so blatantly horrible she should have to receive the same punishment he would have. Or else whats to stop this from happening over and over again?

When our justice system works on "he said/she said", you're going to get a lot of innocent people in prison. Knowing how often people lie, a person's word should not be as powerful evidence as it is

FifteenQs · 2012-05-26T02:26:33+00:00

I honestly think we need to remove the financial aspect of being a victim of rape.

Those who are raped surely can't benefit more from money than he/she can benefit from support and understanding through their troubles.

When you take a trigger-happy prosecution and combine it with a goldmine at the end of the victim-hood railway, you will always end up with an underclass of innocent victims of a unbalanced system, and that is never fair.

nduece · 2012-05-26T06:26:50+00:00

I'm sorry but this is completely unacceptable. How is it this lady isn't facing charges right now? What penalties (if any) will she face?

His attorney was dead wrong for coercing him in to take 10 years

thegreatmisanthrope · 2012-05-26T10:17:31+00:00

She should serve double the sentence he did, and pay all the money she won to him.

This is disgusting.

AnthonyZarat · 2012-05-27T01:56:20+00:00

Did anyone notice that the feminist state continues to protect the false accuser by not giving her NAME? WANETTA GIBSON.

Let that name, the name of evil, the name of feminist hate, the name of disgrace, be forgotten.

WANETTA GIBSON. False accuser, liar, who ruined dozens of lives for money.

WANETTA GIBSON. Name that is still being protected by the feminist state that refuses to hold women accountable for their crimes.

nepidae · 2012-05-26T01:41:26+00:00

Another black man lost in the system. Does anyone care about them? (I'm not saying this to make it a race issue, just an observation, it is a shame that any human has to deal with this.)

jlink005 · 2012-05-26T03:41:03+00:00

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. --Abraham Lincoln

2012-05-26T10:57:36+00:00

http://blacksportsonline.com/home/2012/05/photos-wanetta-gibson-who-falsely-accused-hs-star-brian-banks-of-rape-destroy-his-life/

Here she is, in case you wonder what pure scum looks like.

irisher · 2012-05-26T02:14:42+00:00

http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/u43lf/a_los_angeles_county_superior_court_judge_has/

http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/u347o/exusc_trojans_recruit_exonerated_on_rape/

http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/u53xx/this_man_was_suppose_to_be_a_nfl_star_instead_he/

http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/u4wzq/brian_banks_football_star_accused_of_rape_cleared/

http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/u49mk/brian_banks_ca_football_player_exonerated_of_rape/

This is just in the past day or so. Search feature is your friend.

seancarter · 2012-05-26T13:48:59+00:00

He was on NPR talking about this yesterday. Sorry, I forget the show name. He has since been exonerated due to her confession... which was acquired through the help of a private investigator the he hired.

2012-05-26T15:10:56+00:00

I am not the biggest fan on lawsuits, but in this case it's called for. He should take her ass to court.

2012-05-26T16:11:39+00:00

The saddest part of it all, his mother: "Banks said they fooled around, but that their sexual contact was consensual. His mother, Leomia Myers, believed him, and said she sold her condo and her car to pay for his defense."

Bitch gets 1.5 million dollars while the real and true victim and his mother go destitute.

FerociousImbecile · 2012-05-26T02:39:43+00:00

Of course her name can't be revealed!

ThePigman · 2012-05-26T02:08:43+00:00

What i posted on the story:

"Can't he give his lawyers the facebooks messages ? that has to be evidence in the case that can be brought against her."

I think he can give those messages up as evidence against her cause Facebook messages and some content has been used in cases as evidence before.

Evets616 · 2012-05-26T10:43:05+00:00

At the very least, civil court. Take her for every cent she has left. And then go after the state.

Shattershift · 2012-05-26T19:46:15+00:00

I'd hope this sort of news would motivate the males of our time to look out for their own well-being, but that's easier said than done.

This sort of thing happens all too often, and aside from however common it is, the real power to it is that men in this situation have no way to help themselves.

This fact is reason enough for any sensible male to look at the women around him with a level of cautious suspicion. Yes, suspicion: any person will take the advantages available to them. In this situation women hold all the power, and blindly trusting them to not take advantage is wrong. I don't care if they're your wife, if you've had a child together, if they promised they never would do such a thing, or how in love you are and how much trust you have for her, it will not protect you.

I'm well aware that maintaining this level of caution would be very hard, but until the times change, and these things don't happen like to they do now, men will have to be painfully aware of the potential threats that surround them.

No one else is going to look out for you.

MrBlandEST · 2012-05-26T10:24:30+00:00

How do we know this actually happened? are we taking the guys word or what? Did she admit it to someone else other than him?

2012-05-26T10:53:51+00:00

How do we research and find out her name? I think it should be published, along with her picture, address and phone number. A link to Google directions should also be in the posting. His picture is everywhere and this little whore gets a free ride in her house bought with the million five settlement she scored in ruining his life.

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loony636 · 2012-05-26T04:31:24+00:00

Okay, some facts for people that didn't read the article. And other articles with more facts, like this one and this one.

Banks was a 17-year-old college football prospect when, in 2002, a classmate accused him of kidnapping and raping her. Banks maintained the sex was consensual, but his lawyer suggested he take a plea deal rather than having the "he said-she said" case go to trial.

This is a case of a gigantic legal negligence, rather than a case of the justice system failing. Any lawyer worth his salt should have brought it to trial, rather than letting him go to jail for six years. Especially when there was no DNA evidence.

Then there's the girl:

According to court papers, she admitted to him she lied but later refused to tell prosecutors the same thing lest she have to give back the $1.5 million she and her family won in a civil suit against Long Beach schools.

She didn't sue him for damages, she sued the school (presumably in negligence).

But more importantly:

Gibson didn’t attend the hearing. The district attorney said it’s unlikely she’ll be face any charges. The case is 10 years old and she was only 15.

She was 15 guys. The case seems to be one of statutory rape (not that, of course, there was any sex), but I can't imagine that imprisoning 15 year olds is in anyone's best interest.

And regarding his reputation, he's trying for a spot in the NFL. And, not for nothing, he's a hero now.

TheCake_IsA_Lie · 2012-05-26T02:49:17+00:00

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