Do a quick google on Rhiannon Booker. She was mentioned in one of their signs. She claimed her BF raped her 5 times. Based on phone records and work records, he wasn't available to commit these crimes. This was all predicated on her failing her bar exam. She needed an excuse as to why. He spent 36 days in jail and…

You're getting carried away. It's almost 2 separate issues. People who lie about rape should be in jail. One of the placards says "Free Rhiannon Brooker", out of curiousity, I looked her up. She lied about being raped by her boyfriend so she could have an excuse for failing exams. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl…

I think you need to go back to Fox News.

Oh I agree with that, yes. Which is why I think you couldn't have any...murky?...quality about that at all. I just also think that if you are, in fact, found to be lying, you should not get away with that. And I know that a hundred times people have said there is ZERO reason that anyone would ever make a false…

According to the Guardian, De Freitas, who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, left a suicide note

I know a completely vile pathological liar who once went as far as fooling her friends she was dying of cancer for three months. One time she accused a close friend of mine of rape which due to him having an alibi (thank god) he was never officially charged with. He was threatened with violence, had to delete all…

There are documented cases where the court is sure that people filed false rape accusations. Those people should be in jail.

Exactly. Every prosecution for false-rape is pretty much an iron-clad case. Studies show that at least 8% of all rape claims are false, and only a tiny fraction of those are prosecuted. You have to be pretty deranged to get upset about these handful of prosecutions.

I'm curious as to whether anyone writing for, commenting on, or even just reading Jezebel actually believes that anyone makes false allegations of rape, ever. It doesn't seem that way, historically speaking (comments-wise): if you say it happened, then it happened, no matter what, and anyone questioning the validity…

I think this is a valid point as well, even if #NotAllAmericanBeer.

I feel like I'm missing something here, because I usually agree with your points, and here less so (which, as an aside, I can cope with. We don't always have to agree. I will live on. I am just surprised).

True, but we also don't execute people that are found out to be innocent after the had been executed and we don't let a Grand Jury, consisiting of a dozen non jurists decide, whether the slaying of a black man in broad daylight by a cop warrants a trial or not. So that is that.

Thanks. And I should have added that of course all of Germany grieves for the heroic Tugce Albayrak, hence the demonstration.

Oh I see. So he's not YOUR kind of Serbian. Thanks for the racially motivated clarification.

According to the rather extensive German press coverage the attacker punched her head, she fell and hit her head on the hard pavement. It is unclear at this point whether her extensive head injuries were caused by the punch or by her fall. It is also unclear whether he meant to kill her or 'just' wanted to beat her…

Hi. German here. Here is a link from the Frankfurter Allgemeine about this case. This story certainly does not say that the accused murderer and his friends are being coddled. I assure this is an extremely unlikely scenario, that a foreign national would be "coddled" by the Polizei here. Germany has a different legal…

As well they should have. This is the time for African-American athletes to take a stand. Their children are just as much at risk as Michael Brown, et al.

Birth control is free in the UK (yay for the NHS) Not many excuses for having 6 kids if you can't handle them. I'm not one to judge (who am I kidding, we all love a good moral indignation) but think she went a bit crazy here. Hope she gets her act together and gets some help.

When you put it like that, she should get probation volunteering in a middle school. There is no worse age.

What? She straight up abandons her kids for a month and a half and doesn't get any jail time? Well, that will certainly teach her. Being in an abusive relationship does not excuse abandoning your young children! And why is she going on vacation with a random internet stranger when already pregnant with another kid?…