The scandal started, like many scandals do these days, in the social media. On Saturday, October 12, amidst the school’s Homecoming Weekend festivities, photos and a video of two young people engaged in a public sex act near the campus–the man on his knees performing oral sex on the woman while she leaned against a plate-glass window, half-sitting on its ledge–showed up online and promptly spread on Twitter.
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On Sunday night, the woman in the photos, a 20-year-old Ohio University student, contacted Athens police to say that she had been sexually assaulted. The news media picked up the story; an October 16 report on the local television channel, WBNS-10TV, opened with the alarming announcement, “An Ohio university student says she was the victim of a rape. Making it even worse, someone photographed the alleged assault and shared it on social media.” Within the OU community, there was widespread outrage, particularly at reports that at least a dozen people had witnessed the act. OU senior Allie Erwin lamented to 10-TV, ” Our first instinct as a community was not to intervene and help this woman, but to post it on social media, and make a mockery of probably the most traumatic experience of her life.
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While Athens police chief Tom Pyle warned against a rush to judgment, noting that the witnesses “may not have realized” they were seeing an assault and, in fact, that no assault may have taken place, the outraged student were not mollified. Said Erwin, “She obviously wasn’t okay with what happened. It was rape. She reported it to the police as rape.”
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Meanwhile, the photos and videos–initially taken down after the rape complaint–resurfaced.
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February's broad daylight attack and rape of a visiting brunette co-ed stunned and scared the University of California-Santa Cruz campus. Now, prosecutors say, the claim was all a hoax perpetrated by a twisted 20-year-old who used Craigslist to find a man who would abuse her in exchange for sex.
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After the act, Morgan Triplett called police and claimed she had been raped and assaulted by a stranger. The allegations set off a frantic 11-day search for her supposed attacker.
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Triplett, a University of California-Santa Barbara student, had been visiting the Santa Cruz campus for a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender conference, the Register Pajaronian reported.
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Triplett eventually admitted to the hoax and now faces up to six months in jail if found guilty of filing a false police report.
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"They had sex and afterwards she used a cell phone screen reflection as a mirror to see if the injuries were bad enough. (Triplett) then directed him to hit her some more," KSBW-TV reported court records say.
Man, I went through my list of fake rape articles, and there are so many.
(This is an older article unrelated to this recent accusation but it's most absurd proveably absurd one).
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2013/11/05/is_this_a_campus_rape_well_no/
Or this one -
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/california-co-ed-false-rape-claims-wanting-abuse-cops-article-1.1305113
They're actually sick in the head and enjoy ruining people's lives. Change my mind.