Crying Wolf To The Camera

In an unbelieveable display of false accusations, a woman is charged with falsely accusing 6 men of rape. The police are not some uncaring neanderthals. They have the sex on tape. And, apparently following the pigheaded advice of Bobby Knight and Clayton Williams, she sat back and enjoyed it.

SANTA ANA, Calif. - A 29-year-old Orange County woman has been charged with falsely accusing six men of kidnapping her at gunpoint and raping her.

An indictment returned by an Orange County grand jury also accuses Tamara Anne Moonier with fraudulently receiving more than $1,800 from a state emergency
fund for crime victims.

Can you believe that? She even took our taxpayer dollars on top of it.

Authorities said Moonier went to the Fullerton Police Department on June 6 to report that she had been abducted outside a bar at gunpoint, taken to an unknown location and raped. Police said one of the men Moonier had accused provided a tape showing she had orchestrated the sexual encounter.

Chrisopoulos said the 30-minute videotape shows Moonier telling the others what to do. "Pulling them in certain directions, pulling them into a bedroom, making references to the camera, aware that a camera is on, and just saying things that do not demonstrate fear and demonstrate a consenting adult," Chrisopoulos said.

What is this woman thinking? Is she a brick short of a load?

Incidents like this only harm the true victims in our society. Whether it is crying racism without cause, alleging (falsely) rape, a parent accusing the other one of molestation for revenge or child custody litigation advantage, or otherwise alleging a "hate" crime that never happened, there is nothing to be gained in the long run by making false or unsubstantiated claims.

With each such claim, the public is desensitized to the real victims. The real victims bear the cost of understandably facing greater scrutiny and, perhaps, never being believed. They suffer because of some unstable or vindictive faux-victim.

On the plus side, this woman has a resume for a job directing adult films when she gets out of jail.