Anyone agree or have anything to add?
I agree there should be penalties for knowingly and willfully making false reports to CPS against parents or one parent making a report against another. But I believe there can be and are cases where someone suspects (like a neighbor) a child may be being abused or neglected and in good faith calls to report they suspect there may be abuse or neglect and state their reasons why, but making it clear they are not sure and are making a report as a sort of better safe than sorry situation. I think that there is a huge difference between the two, one being making lies and knowingly making false reports, the other being calling to be better safe tan sorry. I’m not sure how the better safe than sorry reports play out, if they take the kids away automatically I think that the system is very broken. At least in my state I am aware that parents may call on themselves, reporting something like they are very stressed in managing their children and asking for and receving support from CPS where they don’t take the kids away, they assign a case manaager and help the parents learn coping skills, get counseling, etc.
As far as the 25 years, I don’t know if I’d go that harsh, considering that murders can get lesser sentences.
I also think that there should be harsh penalties for false reports of rape. It’s one of those things that once the allegation is made, and it is made public, the person’s reputation/character is destroyed. I think that the only punnishment for doing that is ‘making a false report to the police’ where there is definitely no jail time and possibly not even any probation. I remember reading of one case several years back in the newspaper. The guy’s name was published along with the report and like a summary of what the allegations details were. Then a few weeks later there was a follow-up story of how the report was false and it was for some very obvious reasons that I do not recall.
Men are stronger than women. Angry men who want to hurt a woman may hit/beat her or rape her (possibly angry at women in general for whatever reasons in the cases of the victim being random vs. date rape). Angry women who want to hurt a man generally will not hit/beat him, I assume it’s because they are less strong and fear they would be beaten after the hitting turns into a physical fight. Angry women who want to hurt a man may get a family member or friend to hit/beat the man. They also may make a false report of rape or a false report of physical abuse to the police as the action to take out their anger on the man. I think that there should be much stronger punnishment for doing such things than there are now. The man’s reputation is destroyed and they get a criminal record. The woman gets no punnishment for doing this or if there is a punnishment it is very, very minor. I think there should be a strong punnishment for false reports to the police for rape or physical violence.
I have never had this happen to me but I have had my wife use as a weapon when angry with me telling me she will call the police on me (with the implication being she would falsely report physical abuse). She did this one time because (and I’m not joking or exaggerating) I wore jeans to a party instead of slacks. At the party she kept complaining that I was wearing jeans. I forget if she told me to go home and change or if she just kept complaining I was wearing jeans, but I left the party (at her sisters house full of family and friends that could easily give her a ride home which was like 3 minutes away) and went home with the intentions of remaining at home. She kept calling me and telling me to put slacks on and return to the party and I kept saying I was not going to do that. She then told me if I didn’t put slacks on and return to the party she would call the police on me (the implication being she would report I physically abused her) and I’m not kidding about this story. The second time I forget the circumstances. But even her making the theat to me was very scary, I can’t emphasize enough how scary and powerless I felt. Then there was a time when I was taking her shopping and was a little lost. She was yelling at me in the car. This was so distracting that at one point I had the right of way and there was another car close by and the guy gave me this look like “go ahead and drive stupid, you have the right of way”. I then realized that it was dangerous for me to be driving with her yelling at me. I told her that she needed to stop yelling at me for me to continue to look for the store or ask someone for directions or else I was driving straight home (which I could basically do on auto-piolet even if she continued yelling, which was the only safe option). She kept yelling at me. I drove home. Close to home she demanded I stop the car and let her out. I tried to reason with her to let me continue to drive us both home. She insisted I stop and let her out, so I did. Now during this whole time I had never raised my voice and for the most part was not talking at all.
To be continued due to long post…
