inconvenienced
“Inconvenienced” to several months in jail, or 5 years in prison and five of probation and registered as a sex offender until they were exonerated, and several of the ones in the Innocence Project archives are worse than that.
The 2006 Duke Lacrosse kids were “inconvenienced”, and even that involved threats, harassment and vandalism for a case where every piece of evidence except her claims worked against her claims - she also finally admitted to making it up, in 2024.
false accusations are a tiny fraction of accusations
In the 8-10% range by most studies, with some outliers going as low as 2% or as high as 40%.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Do you get this worked up about false accusations of other crimes, or just when women report rape?
People only seem to come out of the woodwork to pine about how commonly false rape accusations are ruining lives.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
You only asked about rape/SA, so it was the only topic I responded to. According to FBI stats, the 8-10% is actually pretty typical for many other crimes too, but falsely accusing someone of most other crimes aside from something like murder is going to have consequences that are either shorter term or less severe (reputational consequences of being falsely accused of beating someone up are smaller than being falsely accused of rape, for example). Also, rape/SA often has the accusation itself as the primary or occasionally only evidence against the accused, and sometimes that is enough especially in older cases where any physical evidence would be long gone.