Police vetted dubious allegation only after Buttigieg was separated from children
The Michigan attorney general’s office is investigating how the accusation that separated the ex-Cabinet secretary from his 4-year-old twins was handled.
27 July 2026
False allegations
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‘It’s over’: Judge returns kids to Valpo couple who says state wrongfully accused them of abuse
A Valparaiso mother and father have their kids back after they say the Indiana Department of Child Services wrongfully accused them of abusing their baby.
7 July 2026
Pete Buttigieg recalls ‘darkest hours’ after separation from children over hoax CPS report
The former US transportation secretary says an anonymous, false report — which police determined was meritless — led Child Protective Services to separate him from his young twins for 24 hours, in what he calls a “cruel, politically motivated hoax”.
27 June 2026
Institutional Cowardice: Grooming Gangs and False Allegations
Patrick O'Loan draws a parallel between the grooming gang scandal and the handling of false allegations: in both, institutions feared activist backlash more than injustice.
27 May 2026
The Justices Unpick a Stitch-Up
The High Court clears the way for a South Australian man to sue his ex-wife for malicious prosecution over false allegations.
18 July 2025
Time to Charge False Accusers with Coercive Control
The Falsely Accused Network argues it is time to charge false accusers with the offence of coercive control.
20 May 2025
Police trawling and other tactics
Operation Midland's guilty men were never held to account
Harvey Proctor on Operation Midland: the guilty men who wrecked innocent lives were never held to account.
4 March 2025
Alleged fake sex abuse scam revealed as multiple people arrested
Police allege a group of “claims farmers” recruited former inmates and public-school students to file fraudulent historical child sexual abuse compensation claims, leading to arrests across Sydney.
13 February 2025
False Accusations and Wrongful Convictions: How Lives Can So Easily Be Ruined
The history of the Australian criminal justice system is littered with instances of innocent lives ruined as a result of false accusations and wrongful convictions.
6 November 2024
What if the police and prosecution were told to ‘believe all victims of false allegations’?
A Bristol criminologist inverts the instruction: if police and prosecutors had to believe every claimed victim of a false allegation, would they accept it?
22 January 2024
False rape allegations aren’t so rare
The much-quoted 5 per cent figure comes from a meta-analysis that excluded whole categories of cases. Two Australian researchers put the real rate above 10 per cent.
21 October 2023
Cheerleading coach acquitted of sexually assaulting girls
An Adelaide cheerleading coach who had been accused of sexually assaulting girls at a club is acquitted of all charges, after a judge finds the complainants were "not credible or reliable".
29 September 2023
One in three think women use sex assault claims to 'get back at men'
Research shows one in three Australians think women use sexual assault claims as retribution against men.
28 March 2023
Unproven Sexual Assault Allegations: Creating Celebrities While Destroying Lives
How unproven sexual assault allegations can create celebrities out of accusers while destroying the lives of the accused.
10 January 2023
Woman's compulsive lies led to ex-boyfriend almost being shot by police
A woman's compulsive lies to police saw her innocent ex-boyfriend jailed twice and confronted by armed officers at his home.
21 October 2022
St. Louis priest to have arrest record expunged after sexual abuse cases dropped
ST. LOUIS (MO)Catholic News Agency - EWTN [Denver CO]
8 September 2022
6 September 2022
‘It was all taken away’: Former teacher of the year wants apology from DCPS after abuse charge dropped
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A former Duval County teacher of the year said she is devastated and maintains she did nothing wrong after charges of child abuse were…
30 August 2022
New trial being sought in Steven Avery "Making a Murderer" case
Steven Avery from "Making A Murderer" on Netflix (Netflix)
18 August 2022
Rolf is innocent OK
One of the biggest miscarriages of justice in Britain during the present century has been the conviction of the entertainer Rolf Harris following several…
21 July 2022
Amber Heard, Michele Dauber, Emily Doe & #MeToo
Recent tweets by Stanford Law Professor and Amber Heard supporter, Michele Dauber, have viciously attacked Johnny Depp’s attorney Camille Vasquez. Dauber…
3 July 2022
The Supreme Court Ruling on The New Rules of Evidence In Sexual Assault Trials
Admin: A must-read from Joseph A. Neuberger & Diana Davison on alarming developments in Canadian law (Neuberger & Partners LLP, Toronto Criminal Lawyers)
1 July 2022
Another wave of falsely accused priests returned to ministry
Innocent (l to r): Rev. Thomas J. Wopperer, Rev. Martin H. Demek, Rev. Michael Scully,and Rev. Robert G. Beiter
27 June 2022
Woman jailed for year of lies, false complaints, harassment
22 Jun, 2022 03:48 AM2 minutes to read
22 June 2022
Sydney gynaecologist found not guilty of sexually assaulting patient
A Sydney gynaecologist is found not guilty of sexual assault after a judge found the complainant's account bereft of rational explanation.
10 May 2022
Public are losing faith in police watchdog following wave of scandals including the disastrous VIP child sex abuse inquiry, MPs say
Speaking out: Lady Brittan is seeking justice over the treatment of her husband, the former Home Secretary Leon Brittan, after false allegations were made…
1 March 2022
Will Prince Andrew call a false-memory expert? Professor who testified for Ghislaine Maxwell thinks he might
Prince Andrew has denied allegations made against him by Virginia Giuffre
10 February 2022
Jimmy Savile: ITV Savile mendacity part 2
To mark the tenth anniversary of his death ITV have broadcast another gratuitous ‘documentary’ about Jimmy Savile, Portrait of a Predator. Needless to say, it…
25 October 2021
Data reveals only 14 per cent of child sexual abuse claims before Family Court believed to be true by judges
The authors of a new report into findings in Family Court matters where sexual abuse was alleged say they began the project because of a lack of data.
9 August 2021
CPI/SAVE Commends Dept. of Justice for Cessation of Funding for Dishonest 'Start By Believing' Investigations
CPI and SAVE commend the US Department of Justice for ending funding for 'Start By Believing' victim-centred investigations.
13 July 2021
One-Third of Sexual Assault Allegations in Criminal Setting Are Unfounded
SAVE argues one-third of sexual assault allegations in criminal settings are unfounded, contrary to activist claims that false reports are rare.
7 May 2021
The use of ‘recovered memory’ in this alarming Aussie sex scandal reveals its ruinous nature, & the weakness of liberal democracy
The Australian government may fall because of unproven and extremely dodgy 30-year-old rape allegations against a cabinet minister – the unchecked power of the #MeToo movement and its woke media allies is destroying our society.
9 March 2021
Survey: Over 20 Million Have Been Falsely Accused of Abuse
A YouGov survey finds 8% of Americans, over 20 million adults, report being falsely accused of domestic violence or abuse.
17 December 2020
Incompetent, humiliated criminal system fails again
How a preposterous prosecution of the Cook family collapsed, another humiliating failure of Australia's criminal justice system.
7 September 2020
Australia: Exposing the cost of NSW police misconduct
NSW Greens MLC David Shoebridge moved a motion in state parliament on 5 August, calling on the Department of Communities and Justice to release the figures…
14 August 2020
Exonerated. Vindicated.
Former head teacher Richard Dunne is exonerated as the DBS closes his case, vindicating him after false allegations.
15 July 2020
#MeToo: Harvey Weinstein’s nemesis Ronan Farrow ‘too good to be true’
In less than three years Ronan Farrow has become the most widely admired journalist in America for a series of scoops that began with an explosive story about…
19 May 2020
Henriques report into Operation Midland: Met ‘broke law’ over Carl Beech abuse case
Officers face possible misconduct allegations
5 October 2019
Operation Midland: how the police fell for VIP abuse fantasist
The Met had vowed not to shy from historical sex abuse after the Jimmy Saville scandal
5 October 2019
Carl Beech: Liar, fraudster and paedophile
Carl Beech is a liar, fraudster and paedophile.
26 July 2019
The 3 Cs: Contamination, Collusion, Concoction
Simon Warr on contamination, collusion and concoction: how abuse allegations multiply once compensation enters the picture.
25 March 2019
High School Girls Admitted to Making False Sexual Assault Accusations Against a Male Student Because They 'Just Don't Like Him'
Seneca Valley girls admitted making false sexual assault accusations against a male student because they 'just don't like him'.
17 October 2018
Eight falsely accused bishops (and archbishops) in Ireland
Archbishop John Charles McQuaid (slandered by Dr Noel Browne and John Cooney)
10 July 2018
A son speaks out
Moses Farrow's first-person account of life inside Mia Farrow's household, and why he says the 1992 allegation against Woody Allen never happened.
23 May 2018
Child institutional abuse probe’s approach under fire
Senior trauma and memory researchers say the $500 million royal commission has adopted a misguided victim-advocacy role and published “ethically dubious” research.
30 September 2017
‘Those events never happened’
She’s a highly influential activist for childhood trauma survivors. But questions are being asked about Cathy Kezelman’s own shocking story of abuse.
30 September 2017
The Crucible: the perfect play for our post-truth times
In the 50s, Arthur Miller used 17th-century Salem to comment on the ‘red scare’. His drama is chillingly pertinent in the first weeks of Trump’s presidency
15 February 2017
'We are surviving victims of a false accuser and wrongful conviction. Our family is in trauma' — The public speak
Inside Time readers respond to a family's account of a false accuser and wrongful conviction, sharing similar stories.
2 June 2016
Mud sticks: new study into ‘living hell’ of the wrongly accused
An Oxford study of 30 interviews finds teachers and carers cleared of abuse are ‘a new and growing class of victims’, left with wrecked careers and enduring trauma.
19 May 2016