Basketball players falsly accused of rape.

[Tmy]

St. John's Season Worsens With Loss of Top Scorers After Rape Allegation (http://sports.iwon.com/news/02062004/v8814.html)

PITTSBURGH (AP) - The woeful season for the St. John's men's basketball team got even worse.

The school expelled senior Grady Reynolds and permanently suspended leading scorer Elijah Ingram, a sophomore who also faces expulsion, and disciplined four other players Thursday after a 38-year-old woman told Pittsburgh police she met several players at a strip club and was raped in a player's hotel room.

Pittsburgh police charged the woman, Sherri Ann Urbanek-Bach, of Astoria, N.Y., with fictitious reports, attempted extortion and prostitution after interviews with the woman and players.

"We believe financial gain was a motive in this case," Pittsburgh police Lt. Kevin Krause told reporters. "Evidence suggests there were demands for money. When the demands were not met, she filed her report."
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Did you notice how the headline, and story itself really buries the fact that the women was lying. I guess sports players NOT raping just doesnt sell.

I guess one of the players used his cell phone to record the consentual sex. Sometimes it pays to be a pervert!

[Jon_in_london]

How many top footballers have been accused of rape and had the accusation splashed across the tabloid healines in the UK in the past year? 6?10? I dont know.

How many Royal Servants have been accused of rape and had the accusation splashed across the tabloid healines in the UK in the past year? 6?10? I dont know.

How many of these have been accused of rape in a court of law?
0. Thats how many, ZERO.

But, if a man is accused of rape or something, we all know he is presumed guilty untill proved guilty.

[Skeptic]

Did you notice how the headline, and story itself really buries the fact that the women was lying. I guess sports players NOT raping just doesnt sell.

Thank God. Would you really want the headline to read, "In a Shocking Development, Basketball Star did NOT Rape a Woman Today"?

[Skeptic]

But, if a man is accused of rape or something, we all know he is presumed guilty untill proved guilty.

True... but that's true for all those who are accused of any sort of crime in the press. After all, "So-and-so probably innocent!" won't sell.

[Tricky]

Isn't it odd, though, that police can set up stings and arrest "Johns" for soliciting prostitution, yet when men solicit a real prostitute (and then refuse to pay*), they are somehow victims?

Prostitution should be a legal business. Then the lady would have had legal recourse to gain the money she lost through breach of contract. What she did was wrong, but it was in response to a wrong that was done to her.

* I was going to say they stiffed her, but decided to avoid the obvious puns.