Senior Washed Up Girls at Yale

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The article says that the research on the frequency of false reporting isn’t very strong, but tends to suggest between 2 and 8 percent. They go on to assert that many people think the frequency of false reporting is much higher than that. I wonder if that’s true. I’ve always assumed that false reports were a small minority of all reports. 2 to 8 percent is pretty many, honestly–certainly enough to worry about the proof problems that I keep perseverating about.

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<p>Hunt–the literature has false accusation rates from 1 to 90 percent. DNA is now providing some means to get hard data on incorrect rape/sexual assault convictions. The following article seems to delve into the false accusations as well.
[The</a> Forensic Examiner | Archive | Spring 09](<a href=“http://www.theforensicexaminer.com/archive/spring09/15/]The”>http://www.theforensicexaminer.com/archive/spring09/15/)</p>

<p>Recently a California school district recovered a $2 million judgment against a false accuser. Such recoveries can be argued to provide addition assurance against false reporting if the false accuser can be successfully sued.</p>