False Rape Charge 'Ruined His Life' But No Repercussions for Her
October 16th, 2009 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Since Emily Bazelon claims to be concerned about false rape claims, I'd be interested in her take on this one (LoHud.com, 10/1/09). But it's more than just a false rape claim, it's a false DV claim and parental kidnapping all rolled into one. Into the bargain, the perpetrator got off scott free. So what say you Ms. Bazelon? Anything?
It all started when Stephen Vaughn had an argument with his wife. Vaughn is an injured war veteran with a prescription for Percocet to help him deal with the pain from his injuries. So when his wife kept pilfering his pain meds to feed her addiction, he got angry, confronted her, yelled and slammed his hand down onto the bed. He threatened to have her removed from the house if she didn't stop abusing drugs and alcohol.
That got him thrown out of his house and out of his autistic son's life via the usual expedient, a temporary restraining order. But his wife Rebecca didn't stop there. She gilded the lily by adding a rape charge, a kidnapping charge and numerous others.
So Vaughn was arrested and spent a year in jail. Although the article is not clear, it appears that the grand jury refused to indict Vaughn on the rape charge, but last month he was tried and acquitted of kidnapping and other unspecified charges. As things stand now, he's free (as in, "nothin' left to lose") and his attorney has written to the district attorney requesting that Rebecca Vaughn be charged with perjury. She's fled New York for the sunny climes of Florida, taking their son with her. Stephen hasn't seen the boy in over a year and doesn't expect to any time soon.
Incomprehensibly enough, the otherwise sympathetic article says that "the system actually worked in the end." Really? I wonder if Vaughn would agree. Let's see. He was falsely accused, spent who knows how much on legal fees, spent a year in jail, lost his house, his job and his son. His attorney says, "His life is ruined." And his wife has so far suffered no repercussions at all.
If that's the system "working," I'd hate to see what happens when it's broken. Perhaps Emily Bazelon can explain.
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October 16th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Do you remember that case a while back in Texas where a wife was having sex with another man in a truck and when the husband walked up she ran out claiming rape so the husband shot the man? Wasn't she charged with manslaughter?
Why not charge these false accusers with more than just perjury. Charge them with illegal arrest. Charge them as if they had done whatever the State did, only without legal authorization. Make these women responsible for what the State does on their behalf based on the woman's lies.
October 16th, 2009 at 10:55 am
False Rape Charge 'Ruined His Life' But No Repercussions for Her
Business as usual.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Well see the system worked because by not convicting him on the false charges countless women will not terrified into not coming forward when raped. Because as we all know that is the only damage false accusations do. Nevermind that men like Stephen Vaughn have their families, jobs, reputations, and lives destroyed or taken from them. That's just collateral damage that is within acceptable limits.
I'm just saying it now to save you the trouble of hearing later.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:35 am
I'm really curious as to how one reaches the point of claiming that the system worked.
Ignorance? she doesn't know he lost everything.
lack of empathy? hes a man he'll get over it?
carelessness? she didn't bother to think about the consequences for him.
stupidity? the only thing that matters is he was found not guilty?
The "system actually worked in the end." statement implies to me that its OK to make false charges and its ok for the system to follow-up, make arrests...without ANY evidence.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:47 am
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How can she claim this worked? He was acquitted! There's no such thing as a false charge of DV or rape!
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Really, the presumption of innocence did NOT work. The cost to prove himself innocent was obscene, (and customary), and she's not been charged with a crime.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
The matter that should be brought to the publics attention is the cost of such incidents to the taxpayers. The bottom line is always the money. As a rough estimate, I would say this woman has cost the taxpayers well over $100,000 to pay for the investigators, the prosecutors, the court time, and maintaining the victum in prison for a year. Yet no accountability? It would be interesting to see an employer accused of sexual discrimination present a defence based upon the justice system's lack of holding women accountable. If that branch of the government does not hold women to be responsible and accountible, why should private business hire any woman for a position of responsibility or accountibility?
October 16th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I was watching Police Woman of Broward County last night. Another woman with a drug problem accused her significant other of rape and battery. Her story wasn't adding up so they kept questioning her about whether there really was a rape.. About the 4th time they asked her if she was making up the rape charge, she confessed she was. She said she didn't want to be around him anymore.
They arrested him for domestic violence and let her walk away.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Why not charge these false accusers with more than just perjury. Charge them with illegal arrest. Charge them as if they had done whatever the State did, only without legal authorization. Make these women responsible for what the State does on their behalf based on the woman's lies.
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They should charge them with perpetrating a fraud upon the courts.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Make sure you read the entirety of the article. Robert Franklin, shame on you for taking such liberties with the language in the article. The article actually reads:
A passing glance suggests that the system actually worked in the end. After all, an Orange County grand jury threw out the 2008 rape charge. Last month, a Westchester County found Vaughn not guilty of attempted kidnapping and a host of lesser charges.
But if justice was served, then at what cost?
That's quite a bit different that what Robert writes in his commentary above. The article further goes on to discuss the very "costs" to Stephen Vaughn as a result of the false allegations as well as society.
Robert - you would be doing us all a favor, particularly the writer of that piece, if you didn't take such comments so clearly out of context. It's clear in the article that the writer doesn't believe that the system actually worked, but you chopping a few important words (not to mention the balance of the paragraph) implies that the writer does believe the system worked.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Let's see - women are not prosecuted for false rape lies because of a fear that actual victims may then be afraid to come forward. Meanwhile, men are tossed into prison when they have committed no crimes. Collateral damage in the so-called war against rape.
Equal protection of the laws? Yeah, right.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
It could be argued that Robert is going after Emily Bazelton and not the writer of the article.
So I think MrCrockety I will give Mr Franklin the benefit of the doubt. Thank you.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
We have already seen how the idiotic divorce/child custody/child support laws have had a huge negative impact on the number of young people getting married.
I suspect that it won't be long until we hear about the impact that the current rape hysteria and insane DV laws are having on male/female relationships. I have to wonder if more and more young men hear these stories and wonder if it's even worth the risk to just go out with a female, let alone become involved in some type of relationship.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Robert,
I do urge you to try and contact Ms. Bazelon and her editors directly. The end results could be many: a) no change, b) increased antagonism, c) a dialogue starts, d) you get an occasional mention at doublexx, e) you get an occasional column at doublexx.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
The gender feminist / law enforcement misinformation Alliance is a stain on the American judicial system. This "Alliance" enables violent women, which in turn, manifests into a violent matriarchal underclass of crime, drugs, violence.
If the law enforcement community started to hold women/girls equally accountable for their actions..over the course of 15-20 years...peace and prosperity would return to America.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I have to wonder if more and more young men hear these stories and wonder if it's even worth the risk to just go out with a female, let alone become involved in some type of relationship.
It is NOT just young men Dave. I am middle aged (40). After getting a first hand experience of how our system really works, reading and understanding the LEGAL LANGUAGE of my state and title IV-D. Knowing I would get to see someone else's children more than I get to see my own and that it would take away from what I can do for mine, WHY ON EARTH WOULD ANY MAN WANT TO GET INVOLVED AGAIN.
If a person knows the rules to the game and knows they are not fair and stacked against you, WHY WOULD A PERSON PLAY ???
October 16th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
The current gender feminist / law enforcement "Alliance"...is using state and federal dollars to manufacture and distribute faulty and inflammatory misinformation that is creating a prejudice against innocent men and boys.
Using state and federal dollars to manufacture and distribute faulty and inflammatory misinformation is un-constitutional.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
A MANDATED state run agency to track and collect your money. BILLIONS of federal dollars to make sure it gets done.
Where is the MANDATED state run agency (or any FEDERAL DOLLARS) to make sure that parent gets to see that same child ???.....................Oh that is right, there is not a state run agency or any dollars to make sure you get to see your child.
Those two little tidbits of information should be enough to make any loving parent upset. Yes my money is important, but my money IS NOT any more important than I am to my child.
This guy will never get involved again. The deck is STACKED AGAINST me.
October 16th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
mrcustodycoach - I can see your point. Although he is saying saying at a passing glance it is served, and then saying if justice was served, then at what cost?.
SO in effect he is saying justice was served but the cost was high. I would say justice was not even close to being served. Now if they turn around and throw her in jail for a good long time, then i would say it was served.
They always post the links to the articles here so you can read them. He could have pointed out some of the other things I suppose too though. I didn't get the feeling that it really was talking about the fact that his life ws ruined and so-on until i read the article itself.
October 16th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
To Dave:
When I was teaching at the College here in Canada I did not notice if the young male students were more jaded by the constant anti-male attitude in the rape culture what I did notice what was different from lets say 20 years ago is the lack of respect and interest in a relationships with the female students when I was a student the girls was the center of interest for most of us now its like there are more like friends to the guys even at one time a nice girl in my class ask a favor to a guy and he didn't even look at her and she just said to me in a sad tone why are guys don't care about us girls anymore I had never heard a comment like that from a female student so to me its not so much of a divide in relation male / female it is more like indifference on the part of both each are planning their future with much consideration for marriage and we will notice a constant decline in marriage until its only a small minority and you can thank the feminist for that this was their goal to
liberate women from the evil Patriarchy.
October 16th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Is there any fund we can donate to to help Stephen Vaughn get his life back together, and possibly fight for custody of his son?
What prosecutor would have the jurisdiction to bring perjury charges against Rebecca Vaughn? Do you, Mr. Franklin, have an address through which we could contact that prosecutor?
October 16th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Wayne: "It could be argued that Robert is going after Emily Bazelton and not the writer of the article. So I think MrCrockety I will give Mr Franklin the benefit of the doubt. Thank you."
Mr. Crockety? Wayne, name-calling aside, giving Mr. Franklin the benefit of the doubt when there is no doubt that he pulled only a small portion of the quote is foolhardy.
Quite definitively, the entire quote implied quite the opposite of what Mr. Franklin claimed it and the foundation was laid in the article to dispel such a notion.
I am very fond of Franklin's articles, but he made a huge mistake in this one, particularly if readers take him at his word and don't actually go read the article from where he is pulling (mis)quotes.
October 16th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Scott Says:
"If a person knows the rules to the game and knows they are not fair and stacked against you, WHY WOULD A PERSON PLAY ???"
Same here buddy. Been there, done that, don't ever intend to make the same mistake again. Given the current system, it just isn't worth the effort and I suspect that most of us veterans of the so-called "family court" system feel the same way. I'm just curious about how the younger generation views all of this mess.
Mikey M Says:
"and she just said to me in a sad tone why are guys don't care about us girls anymore"
Thanks for the input. I have a daughter in high school in the southern US and I have noticed similar attitudes there. Despite all of the problems that we have faced, I fear that their generation will bear the brunt of this nonsense.
October 16th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
"Do you remember that case a while back in Texas where a wife was having sex with another man in a truck and when the husband walked up she ran out claiming rape so the husband shot the man?"
I remember it, and lo and behold I actually read a radfem idiot argue that instead of punishing the woman we should be asking ourselves why she was so "afraid" of her husband that she felt compelled to cry rape.
I swear there's no limit to the insanity. These nuts will not be happy until women have the Constitutional right to kill men at will.
October 16th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Ugh, people like this woman should be convicted felons and locked up. I'm annoyed I share a name with her (but at least I spell it differently). I hope that poor man gets his son back soon. :(
October 16th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
That got him thrown out of his house and out of his autistic son's life via the usual expedient, a temporary restraining order.
The removal service "police" were called.
October 16th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Let's see. He was falsely accused, spent who knows how much on legal fees, spent a year in jail, lost his house, his job and his son. His attorney says, "His life is ruined." And his wife has so far suffered no repercussions at all.
Of coarse not dear... Women never do...
October 16th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
False Rape Charge 'Ruined His Life' But No Repercussions for Her
When will the false allegations stop? When will men's lives stop being ruined on just an "allegation?"
October 16th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Hey, I thought women and girls Never, Ever, Ever, Ever lie about rape??
October 16th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
menscollegeactivist.org-where on earth did you get the insane idea that a woman could lie about rape or anything. That is unconscionable. Women are simply angels with wings who will come to your aid and sooth anyone's afflictions. Women are simply infallible divine creatures who are oppressed and taken advantage of by evil men.
Attila
October 17th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Male birth control pills. And a high school mens studies for sex education should have articles like this as part of the class. I would make sure every boy from 9th to 12th grade had these true stories told to them every day. I would make sure they new the law and how it was used. I would make sure they knew the rights males have (LOL) also. That will go a long way towards getting women actually held accountable for their actions.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:06 am
mrcustodycoach.com Says:
October 16th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Wayne: "It could be argued that Robert is going after Emily Bazelton and not the writer of the article. So I think MrCrockety I will give Mr Franklin the benefit of the doubt. Thank you."
Mr. Crockety? Wayne, name-calling aside, giving Mr. Franklin the benefit of the doubt when there is no doubt that he pulled only a small portion of the quote is foolhardy.
Quite definitively, the entire quote implied quite the opposite of what Mr. Franklin claimed it and the foundation was laid in the article to dispel such a notion.
I am very fond of Franklin's articles, but he made a huge mistake in this one, particularly if readers take him at his word and don't actually go read the article from where he is pulling (mis)quotes.
I would like to see Mr. Franklin respond to this. I can see both sides. As I stated above. I don't think he was out of line because really based on the language used in the article he disccusses he is right, and he did state it was an other wise sympathetic article.
October 20th, 2009 at 8:06 am
The posting that asks to create some legal fund to help Mr. Vaughn get his children back strikes me as the most practical of all these posts. We ALL seem to be well acquainted with the bias of family court (and its infiltration by women's groups), the feminist bias of the VAMA laws and the resulting state statutes that sprung up in its wake, the destruction of men's lives and their children's relationship with them from false DV charges as a COMMON tactic of women in divorce and the growing mountain of evidence that PROVES all of this.
There are literally dozen's of advocacy groups, national and state, trying to lobby for the civil rights of men & fathers like this one but they have failed to unite iinto a single cohesive PAC that can draw the attention of politicians and voters. Our stories of being abducte from our homes and our children taken from us (sometimes to foreign countries and some times for many YEARS) are only the emotional element of our cause. If we are to change the future for our sons, to right the wrongs done to us by our own legal system we need unified POLITICAL weight and well supported legal challenges to the system that has unjustly arrested, incarcerated, evicted us and abducted our children.