LA Times story part 1
Could this be happening? A man’s nightmare made real
If you can’t wait for Tuesday’s installment here’s what finally happened.
Holy cow that is one vindictive woman.
I don’t like posts that don’t even really hint at what the topic is about.
They both sound pretty terrible.
Whenever I read something like this it always reminds me of a comment I over heard someone say back in high school. “When a woman accuses someone of rape and it turns out she was lying, she should have to take whatever punishment he would have received because that kind of thing can ruin the rest of his life”
Now, I know something like this could never work for a quite a few reasons (that I’m not looking to discuss in this thread), but I always liked the theory.
Didn’t read all the article but how’d she tie herself up?
It doesn’t say. Neither does the second article. I presume the “hows” of the case are in part two.
Her husband was in on it. At least I’m assuming that based on “The lawsuit names West and her husband, Timothy Geiges, who is accused of helping her concoct the false story of rape and brutality”
Good outcome, and I agree that the false accusation should be a criminal offense, but only if really persuasive evidence exists that the accuser is knowingly lying. This case appears to meet that standard. I hope this guy gets custody of the kid and every cent he’s got coming to him. Rape is a hard enough crime to prosecute without bitches like this casting doubt on legitimate victims.
The headlines should also be just as big when an accused person is exonerated (not just not convicted, but actually determned to be “factually innocent” as this judge concluded) as they are when he’s accused
How so?
I realise the article was obviously written taking the blokes side, but potentially biased journalism aside and not knowing anyone involved I fail to see how you can detemrine that he sounds as bad as the woman involved?
I hope his civil case is a roaring success. Not that he’ll get much from her, but hopefully he can at least get primary custody of the child.
Well there’s this
I’m willing to bet this isn’t the only time one of them has laid a hand on the other in anger, it’s probably the only time it’s happened in public.
Excuse my ignorance of US law, but presumably having a judge rule you are “factually innocent” is a specific statement that he was 100% innocent of the charges, as opposed to say there being insuffeceint evidence, or a simple statement of charges were dropped?
I wonder if he gets a certified letter or something to that effect? I’m serious, what if he went back to his employer and said here you go. Didn’t do it, any chance of my job back?
Based on her displayed behaviour, personally I’m willing to accept his version of those events.
Willing to accept that there’s probably been a lot go on behind closed doors, but these actions by the woman are so far beyond the pale that unless he was physically abusive he in no way is anywhere near as bad as her. And I see nothing to suggest that he was.
Obviously just my opinion, but this woman was willing to see him go to jail for the rest of his life just to be nasty and presumably to make sure she has sole custody.
Since she’s pretty much a proven liar, I think it’s reasonable to give greater credence to him in this situation. If he had punched her in the stomach, I would think (although I am no expert) that there would be enough evidence of that after the fact such that the domestic violence charge would not have been dropped so easily.
I’m not defending either of them, I’m just pointing out what FS was probably basing the “They both sound pretty terrible” comment on.
I’m surprised she can still get unsupervised visitation of the kid. But glad to know he’s doing ok.
Yeah, my assumption would be that if she thinks she’ll have no other way to harm her ex soon, she might take it out on their son.
Yeah, that’s what I meant. He’s the kind of guy who’d hit her, she’s the kind who’d lie about it…they sound meant to be.
While I grant he doesn’t sound like a saint among men, from this story we know a few things happened:
He hit her windshield in anger.
She knowingly lied about him raping and torturing her in an attempt to ruin his life forever and gain sole custody of her child.
While neither action is that of an enlightened being, I find equivocating the two characters to be offensive and possibly more. Maybe I’m misreading the intent of your post here.
Well, she also said he hit her, though I guess we don’t know if that really happened.
If his story that all he did was hit her windshield, I don’t think those actions are equivalent. Just that they both sound very low class, trashy types.