Friday, May 14, 2010

What percentage of sexual harrasment cases are false?

And what is the punishment for false acquisition?What percentage of sexual harrasment cases are false?
The statistics for this would be hard to calculate...





Just because the accused is found innocent doesn't mean that the accusation was false. The accuser might have truly felt harassed but it was determined that the activities did not constitute harassment. This is not a false accusation.





Getting people to admit that they lied and made up things to accuse someone would be a very tough statistic to gather since that opens then up to a civil suit for defamation, slander/libel. (Which is what I guess you could consider to be one of the possible penalties for a false accusation). If you continue with the complete lies under oath, you could be charged with perjury. If you file a police report based on those lies, you could be charged with Filing a False Police Report.What percentage of sexual harrasment cases are false?
It is hard to come up with true statistics, but there are studies that have shown between 20% and 30% false accusations...





There is no punishment for false accusations.

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