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Widow Says Husband Driven to Heart Attack after False Accusation of Pedophilia

407898_blog We’ve all heard about false accusations of sexual criminality,
incidents such as the 2006 Duke University rape frame-up case. They are
a form of psychological molestation and can destroy a person’s life
just as being physically molested can. Well, now such an accusation
might have ended a man’s life.

The hapless victim, 63-year-old British citizen Bryan Davies, died of a
massive heart attack last Friday after months of community harassment
resulting from a false accusation of pedophilia. And what was the
reason for the accusation?

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8 responses to “Widow Says Husband Driven to Heart Attack after False Accusation of Pedophilia”

  1. Philip France Avatar
    Philip France

    Selwyn, you are so right on and my heart goes out to the Davies’ family and their immeasurable loss.
    This story exemplifies and personifies the horrible consequencess of believing lies: the sad and sordid legacy of the world-wide Left
    There will be no such cover at the Day of reckoning. Woe unto you!

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  2. Dan Avatar
    Dan

    “Thou shalt not bear false witness.”
    This and virtually all of societies problems would be gone if the 10 commandments were strictly followed.
    But the atheist would argue. “The same would happen if people followed the rule of law!” But the only thing that gets some people to follow the rule of law is possible societal retribution. Since the atheist doesn’t believe in “right” and “wrong”. And even if they think they do, their belief in them is grounded in finite mortal opinion.
    And really, this type of thing is far too common. It even happened to me. I wasn’t accused of rape or anything like that. But I was accused of sexual harassment. Which I of course was innocent of. They didn’t fire me (cause 1 accusation without proof isn’t enough to fire someone), but it was painfully obvious that they believed her. For months I was paranoid about what would happen. And feared for my job and reputation every time she walked by. Months went by and I asked the HR person what was happening with “that thing thats goin on” And she said “oh, I wouldn’t worry about it” Meanwhile, all this time, the chick keeps on trying to strike up conversations with me. After hearing what the HR person said I finally asked. “Why do you keep trying to talk to me? You accused me of sexual harassment. Why did you say those things about me?” She told me that “her boyfriend made her do it” cause he was jealous of me talking to her. She MADE UP a story of me touching her chest, recanted, and NOTHING happened to her. And whats worse, they didn’t even tell me that she recanted or that they were sorry for believing her to put my mind at ease.
    But then, who are you going to believe? A crying woman? Or a guy that said he didn’t do anything? Cause thats what a guilty guy would say, right? Ya. Its also the same thing an innocent man would say.

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  3. Chavez Avatar
    Chavez

    “For instance, the stripper who falsely accused the Duke lacrosse players of rape, Crystal Magnum, wasn’t charged, either.”
    This was, in fact, the second time Ms. Mangum had falsely accused others of gang rape. When she was fourteen she had also charged three friends with dragging her into a bathroom and raping her. (Sound familiar?)
    If she had been prosecuted then, she might not have made the same mistake again, and the entire Duke lacrosse fraud and all the harm it perpetrated (and continues to perpetrate) might not have happened.
    Instead, we now have more lives ruined (including the death by heart attack during the case of the grandfather of one of the accused, who was involved every day in fighitng to clear his grandson’s name; the emotional and physical collapse of the mother of one of the accused, requiring her hospitalization; the emotional trauma of numberless death threats constantly delivered to the families of the accused, etc.)

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  4. yoyo Avatar
    yoyo

    These stories are so sad, but fail to see what it has to do with left/right politics. Of course for Dan everything is seen through some vague prism of religious right. How does he know the politics of the Duke stripper or the nasty english slappers?
    I actually see the english case as related to the poor woman with the adult disabled child who was driven to take both their lives after years of harrassment. The one thing the poms seem to do better than class stratification/discrimination is village mobs. If you read the low brow english tabloids is a constant litany of hideous yobs holding whole communities to ransom. The police seem ineffectual and obsessed with stupid OH&S regulations and pointless paperwork sensitivity training. If that can be translated as of the left how do you explain the growth of similar “busywork” under Bush?
    re false accusations of rape – totally, criminally unacceptable. And where it can be proven to have been done with malice aforethought, NOT just a rape case that was unsuccessful, then the accuser should be named.
    However, I have been thinking recently that no-one should be named in the media until the case against them is proven. Reputation is impossible to completely repair, so maybe it should all be subjudice until the case is concluded.
    A young man in Victoria was just released from 15mths jail for a rape he did not commit, prosecuted then imprisoned based on dodgy forensic evidence. The victim (female) did NOT accuse this young man, but can the courts give him back 15mths of his life, or the stress on his family, or repair the probable brutalisation he has undergone? We have a very flawed justice system and when the court of public opinion is addedd it just gets 10 times as bad.

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  5. yoyo Avatar
    yoyo

    PS: I really dont understand the picture, is it supposed to be the victims wife or to claim that badly dressed hippies are a problem?

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  6. Matt Avatar
    Matt

    And you see everything through the vague prism of atheism.
    Those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones?

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  7. yoyo Avatar
    yoyo

    Matt, point taken and agreed! I try really hard to keep notions of the supernatural out of my assessment of legal issues.
    I mean no offence to others who are influenced in different ways.

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  8. Matt Avatar
    Matt

    See yoyo, I don’t have problems with people seeing things through “vague prisms” as you put it. You do. So, hows it feel to have your own standards thrown back in your face like you do to Christians on this forum all the time? The only difference is I didn’t take an ignorant or divisive interpretation of a teaching, when you do. And don’t be so coy, of course you mean offense to others who are influenced in different ways (meaning religion). You do it all the time.
    But all thats aside from the fact that Dan is right, and that makes you upset. The fact that 10 simple rules created by GOD, could eliminate most of this worlds social problems. And that upsets you. Cause like most atheists, you didn’t just arrive at atheism through careful thought or study. You picked it cause it suits your selfish lifestyle.
    Just face the facts and stop trying(poorly)to deny them. This problem and hundreds of others could be solved with this one commandment alone.
    You can write a million laws. And increase the police force 100 fold. But you would never eliminate the problem cause you cant establish what God can. That something is WRONG. Man cant do that without it being reduced to finite social opinion.

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