Wow... truth is stranger than fiction - "Could this be happening? A man's nightmare made real"

At least the kid sounds like he’s doing good through all of this.

She also said that he knocked her unconscious, bound her, broke her collar bone, and raped her. She’s a lying sack of shit. I wouldn’t give her words any weight at all.

She should get jail time at least equivalent to the time he had to put in. She should not have any custody of the child, supervised or not, as she has been proven to be dangerously vindictive.

The only visitation that bitch should be having with her son is when he comes to see her in prison.

She set him up for a crime that he could have served 5 life sentences on! This wasn’t one report of him punching her, this was an accusation of brutal rape!

I read the part about the meeting at Denny’s - if he abused her, he should serve the time for that. But as soon as rape enters the picture, he’s ruined. Neither article mentions if he got his job back.

I don’t understand how he’s still fighting for sole custody of the kid. I’m against one parent poisoning the kid against another, but I sure hope when this kid is 15 someone tells him how his loving mommy tried to put his daddy behind bars forever by a false rape accusation.

I would bet good money, considering that she was (allegedly) willing to go through simulating a brutal rape that involved at least abrasions to her vaginal and anal areas, as well as a busted lip, lasting ligature marks, etc., that any bruising she may have previously suffered may well have been self-inflicted.

Even though I am female, it seems from my observations of guys who have gone through divorces like there is a tremendous amount of bias against fathers in the child custody system. People have a hard time letting go of their stereotypes that women are natural nurturers and that of course the child is better off with their mom even if there is considerable evident that she is very unstable or dangerous. There are a lot of shitty dads out there who don’t care about their kids, but I do wonder if we contribute to that problem by acting like mothers are the only parents that really matter.

The evil genius of this woman’s plan is that she realizes that people are very reluctant to call BS on someone’s allegations of things like rape and domestic violence. Even if there is absolutely no proof, most compassionate people err on the side of believing rape victims because nobody wants to be the asshole who told a genuine victim that they were lying. I really don’t have a good answer for how to balance the need to make sure that genuine rape/abuse victims are given a fair chance to be heard and believed vs. keeping anti-social predators like this woman from destroying innocent people’s lives.

Scenario:

Someone jaywalks across a street, and then gets brutally mugged and beaten.

Both of those folks sound pretty terrible too. Imagine! Jaywalking!

When O.J. was being prosecuted and people were up in arms over violence against women (as we should be) a guest editorial in USA Today by an officer of NOW quoted some interesting statistics to provide some balance and perspective:

– Women initiate violence more frequently than men.
– Violence by women tends to do more damage because they use objects such as irons, frying pans, etc.

People are people. There are people who do bad and people who do good of all races and both genders.

I would be inclined to give him a pass on the windshield – he may have been keeping himself from hitting her!

As someone who was sent to jail because of a vindictive ex, I hope this bitch burns and she loses every cent she has.

Did you start a thread about that?

No, and it was years ago. I guess I could, but I don’t wanna :stuck_out_tongue:

At this point, I’d be willing to believe that what actually happened was that she rammed him with her car and “he broke her windshield” with his body.

This.

At this point I would not believe her if she told me the sky is blue. I am a woman, but this bitch needs to see the inside of a jail at least for a while. She was using the state as a weapon against his ex and was willing to keep him locked up for the rest of his life. That is not different from actually kidnapping somebody at gunpoint and never letting them go, if not worse.

I just think the kind of guy who would break a windshield in anger sounds like he could very well have been violent. She could have been lying about the other thing, too–I just don’t think it’s so inconceivable that he’s also abusive.

This is one of the worst things about accusations like this. Even though he was proven innocent, people are still going to think bad things about him.

I am more perturbed by the fact that he was denied bail and remanded to custody in jail based solely on the statement of the alleged victim, with no other supporting material evidence and also the fact that the defendant had no significant previous criminal record that would indicate a personality prone to such violence.

I’m not thinking bad things about him because of the accusation–I’m thinking based on what he’s actually done. A guy who reacts by smashing a windshield in anger sounds like kind of a thug–I can definitely picture him doing something violent.

OK, I get that. But he said it was only after she repeatedly hit him. And charges were dropped. I’m not inclined to think that he was violent as a rule.

Or perhaps he’s a normal human being that was terribly provoked but directed his anger at an object rather than the person that pissed him off.