There is no question that false accusations can happen, and do. Sorting out the true from false can be a nightmare.

False accusers sometimes are mentally unbalanced, and sometimes are sociopaths. There are more such people around than one would think.

Glad your situation featured the woman recanting.

We never had an argument in the slightest.

A totally unprovoked accusation — is a total mind-blower.

As for one’s defense: you don’t get any.

The universal presumption is that such a serious allegation MUST have some basis in fact.

The truth: no it doesn’t.

Some crazy women will throw out this social bomb… just on impulse. It’s not as if ANY stigma will stick to HER even if she’s found out to be a raging liar.

As for the punishments against the false claim: they scarcely exist.

Work out the calculus of her decision.

The gal — ultimately — told me that she was merely angry with me.

That was all it took to rock my world.

I got off lucky. She didn’t file a police report.

Her anger probably turned on the fact that I was NOT sexually interested in her — whereas she regarded me as the pick of a lifetime.

Date rape? We never dated. We practically never were alone together.

Our relationship was that of landlord and tenant. Period.

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Such a terrible accusation leads most (women) to believe that SOME element of truth must underlie her allegations.

Literally, until the last, until she recanted, the gals in the ‘know’ believed her — hook, line and sinker.

I terminated my commercial relationship with everyone directly involved in this snarl ASAP.

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Months roll by.

Then, guess who sees me on the H-1 freeway? Yeap.

She waves to me like I was her long lost beau. (!)

During all of these travails it became evident that she was emotionally off the rails.

I been raped!!

Ergo, my liberal logic, all rape victim claims are to be deemed truthful.

Arrest and try Obama for Constitutional rape!! Now!

Or an Arthur Miller. Which brings in a whole other level of irony because his play The Crucible about the Salem witch trials was written in reaction to the McCarthy hearings.

Community of the Wrongly Accused:

http://www.cotwa.info/

“Database of Lawsuits Against Colleges and Universities Alleging Due Process and Other Violations in Adjudicating Sexual Assault”:

http://www.avoiceformalestudents.com/list-of-lawsuits-against-colleges-and-universities-alleging-due-process-violations-in-adjudicating-sexual-assault/