LogFAQs > #902623995

1) What she did was as traumatic and damaging to those men as rape. She didn't just make a false police report, she told a horrible lie about two specific individuals. Their lives will forever be harmed for this.

2) Let's still remember that sexual assault crimes are very rarely falsely reported. Women should still be believed by default. This one idiot shouldn't make us lose sight of that. She is in fact doubly wrong because her actions might be seen as indicative, thereby harming other women who really are raped.

3) The severity of punishment is not shown to be a deterring factor in criminology. The surety of punishment is. Certainly I agree that one year is not enough punishment for such an awful crime, but punishing her at all will still have a deterant effect on others who would consider such a crime, and a lower prison sentence will mean that she's less likely to become institutionalized. This was probably the best ruling from a societal perspective, regardless of whether she deserved to be punished harder.