Good morning. Thought I'd clarify what I was getting at. My experience here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rape/comments/5eae4x/was_this_rape/

My case was not pursued to prosecution. The police arrested my rapist and then after he said that I wanted it, the police deemed it was a he said/she said situation. While this isn't a legal reason, the police cited that they didn't have enough evidence to go to court.

I'm not alone in this type of outcome. There is an unknown amount of cases like mine that never see court. There is little resource or recourse for someone to protest the police's decision. I would hire a lawyer, but that's 5k I don't have.

I get that my story isn't this story. I get that this woman's actions were absolutely deplorable. However, I have to question the narrative and why this woman's case was highlighted. I'd love to see the data concerning how many false rape reports versus reports that are legitimate but not taken to court for other reasons. I've asked the police about this type of data and was told that they don't collect it. It's in their case files but from what I've been told they don't aggregate or publish that data. I wonder what we would find if it was published. Would we be having a different conversation?

My experience was that the police spent more time trying to find holes in my story than establish/do the same to my rapist's story.

Reviewing all this, I probably shouldn't have commented here at all but I feel there's a seriously missed black hole of cases like mine where the victim was bullied to the point of silence. IDK. It's hard to see stories like this and not say something coming from the other side. Apologies for any offence, I don't mean to punch ghosts. I feel like I'm the ghost.

Anywho, I guess downvotes away but that was my motivation behind the original comment.

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