Alternate Title - 8 Real Examples of False Rape Accusations

Summary: Over a year ago, the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management (NCHERM) published an open letter with some serious RP gold. NCHERM is a law practice group with special expertise in Title IX law and “championing gender equity”. Despite their excessive lip service to FI principles, their letter includes 8 specific examples of false rape allegations and 0 reasons for why campuses should be handling sexual assault cases at all.

Link: https://www.ncherm.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/An-Open-Letter-from-The-NCHERM-Group.pdf

Body: Here I have transcribed NCHERM's 8 sample cases (which were somehow serious enough) that warranted their legal assistance:

  1. A female student interviewed recently during an investigation had spread rumors by social media that she had been raped by a male student. When the rumors got back to the male student, he approached her about it, and she offered him a lengthy apology, and then put it in writing. We had to investigate it nevertheless, and she told us that they'd had a drunken hook-up that she consented to. She was fine with what happened. We asked her why she called it a rape then, and she said “you know, because we were drunk. It wasn't rape, it was just rapey rape.” We asked her if she was aware of what spreading such an accusation might do to the young man's reputation, and her response was “everyone knows it wasn't really a rape, we just call it that when we're drunk or high.”

  2. A female student alleged a campus sexual assault based on non-consensual oral intercourse. Her texts both before and after the incident with the alleged perpetrator state that she enjoys swallowing and “dirty boys who cum in her mouth”, all in reference to her actions with him. In her complaint that the oral sex was non-consensual, she informed the campus that she was appalled that he did not wear a condom. He insists it was consensual. We don't know that we'll ever know what happened, but we do know what can and can't be proven.

  3. A female student was caught by her boyfriend while cheating on him with another male student. She then filed a complaint that she had been assaulted by the male student with whom she had been caught cheating. The campus investigated, and the accused student produced a text message thread from the morning after the alleged assault. It read:

    • Him: How do I compare with your boyfriend?
    • Her: You were great
    • Him: So you got off?
    • Her: Yes, especially when I was on top
    • Him: We should do it again, soon
    • Her: Hehe
  4. A female student claimed multiple instances of sexual aggression, assault and coercion by her boyfriend over more than a year, but after making the complaint, she could not recall or provide ANY specifics of each instance in terms of location, time, or salient details. His corroborative evidence showed cooperation and even initiation by the complainant.

  5. A female student claimed a male student performed oral sex on her without her permission on October 3rd. He did so again on October 11th. On October 13th, they had consensual sexual intercourse. On November 2nd, he again performed oral sex on her without her consent. She complained about the three non-consensual acts, but not the consensual intercourse. The campus processed this complaint to a fair outcome based on the October 13th violation, but it demonstrates how little black and white exists in some of these cases.

  6. A male student performed demeaning, degrading and abusive sexual acts on a female non-student. They engaged in BDSM, and he ignored her protests throughout the entire sexual episode, despite her screaming in obvious pain and trying to get away from him. She filed a grievance with the campus, and we soon discovered instant messages in which she consented just before the incident to exactly these acts, and agreed to forgo the use of a “safe word” common in BDSM relationships.

  7. A female student accused a male student of sexual assault. When her complaint of sexual assault was heard by a campus panel, there was literally no evidence to support her complaint. He was found not responsible and decided not to press a complaint against her for a false allegation out of sensitivity to her serious mental health issues. Then, she went around campus telling anyone and everyone that he had raped her. The male student then filed a complaint against the female student for harassment. The female student then filed a complaint with the college for processing his complaint as an act of retaliation against her.

  8. In another recent case, a long-term relationship between two students involved many consensual sexual acts. The couple broke up. The male student started dating another student on campus, at which point the former girlfriend filed a complaint that there were non-consensual acts amongst many prior and subsequent consensual acts they engaged in. Perhaps, but the timing is suspicious, and there is no evidence to suggest any concern about the behaviors during the time they were dating. Again, there is often a chasm between what is alleged and what evidence is able to prove.

Conclusion: For those who chose to read the full letter, you've no doubt noticed the use of ridiculous phrases such as “trigger warning”, “male privilege”, and the titular “our experience suggests that victims tell the truth.” This usage of SocJus language makes the presence of these RP examples that much more surprising. It signals that NCHERM wrote this letter to encourage campuses to backpedal on their insane Title IX policies, and that their inclusion of such heretical examples was an attempt to convince universities that false rape accusations should be feared out of legal liability – not blindly trusted.