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A false allegation of child sexual abuse is an accusation that a person committed one or more acts of child sexual abuse when in reality there was no perpetration of abuse by the accused person as alleged. Such accusations can be brought by the victim, or by another person on the alleged victim's behalf.
A false accusation of rape happens when a person states that they or another person have been raped when no rape has occurred. Although there are widely varying estimates of the prevalence of false accusation of rape, according to a 2013 book on forensic victimology, very few reliable scientific studies have been conducted. [1]
The Groveland Four (Ernest Thomas, Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd, and Walter Irvin) were falsely accused of raping 17-year-old Norma Padgett and assaulting her husband on July 16, 1949, in Lake County, Florida. Thomas fled and was killed on July 26, 1949, by a sheriff's posse of 1,000 white men.
A Map of the World (1994) ― A novel that was turned into a film (1999), about a school nurse falsely accused of molesting a student. Serious Charge (1959) ― A film starring Anthony Quayle as an English vicar who was falsely accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy. The youth’s story is supported by a woman whose affections the vicar ...
The Duke lacrosse rape hoax was a widely reported 2006 criminal case hoax in Durham, North Carolina, United States, in which three members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape. [1] [2] [3] The three students were David Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann.
Wrongfully Accused is a 1998 satirical comedy film written, produced and directed by Pat Proft and starring Leslie Nielsen as a man who has been framed for murder and desperately attempts to expose the true culprits.
In addition to falsely reporting that he had been attacked by two unknown individuals, Smollett described one of them as a white male. [3] [2] He also told police the men shouted "This is MAGA country" [4] during the attack, a reference to the Trumpist political slogan "Make America Great Again". [5]
In 1992, the parents of Betsy Wheaton, a 16-year-old nonspeaking person with autism, were, through facilitated communication, falsely accused of sexually abusing their daughter. The facilitator, Janyce Boynton, who was trained in FC at the University of Maine, [ 19 ] [ 20 ] interpreted Betsy's hitting and scratching during facilitated sessions ...