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GanglyKhan posted...

I'm willing to bet a good amount of money that I'm more likely to get shot in a drive by than be falsely accused of rape on any given day.

And unless you lived in a major urban center, you'd be dead wrong. Keep in mind that we live in a country where guys who never even met their "victim" have gone to jail for rape.

And while trying to google the case I was thinking of, I kept finding *other* cases where men were falsely imprisoned for rapes they didn't commit.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tennessee-dallas-wrong-jailed-
(broke link because it was too long)
conviction-compensation-lawrence-mckinney-rape-burglary-31-years-a8268641.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/nyregion/innocence-project-manhattan-rape.html

The case I was trying to find involved a white guy who was wrongly ID'd by a rape victim (I *think* the rape was legit) and, despite not having evidence and his girlfriend alibi'ing him, he went to jail for years (and I think they actually caught the real guy).

But I'm looking and there are countless cases of men wrongly locked away for rape, some of which were false charges and others were wrong IDs. That's not counting the men who had their lives destroyed by false accusations but didn't go to prison, like Tawana Brawley's victims (and, it should be noted, Tawana faced no prison for her crime)
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