Letters to the Editor
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Story of woman raped twice by same man false, S.F. police say
Story of woman raped twice by same man false, S.F. police say
Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, December 8, 2007
(12-07) 13:51 PST San Francisco - -- Last month's report of a woman raped by the same man twice in five days was fabricated, San Francisco police said Friday, and composite sketches the woman helped generate of her alleged attacker have been removed from the department's Web site.
The 27-year-old woman first told police that on Nov. 10 she was assaulted on the street during a purse snatching and again five days later after the assailant apparently learned her address and attacked her at her home. She did not report the first attack until after the second one supposedly occurred.
The woman told police that she was first raped about 5:30 p.m. Nov. 10 as she walked from the Glen Park BART station toward Bosworth Street. A woman who was with the male assailant yelled at the victim, demanded her purse, then slapped her and pushed her to the pavement after grabbing it, she told police.
The man then pushed the woman down again and raped her, police said.
On Nov. 15, the woman told police, she was driving up to her home when the man reappeared, this time with a gun, and followed her into the garage. He then raped the woman a second time, she told authorities.
Sgt. Steve Mannina, spokesman for the department, said the woman admitted to police she made up the account of the attacks.
"It turned out after further investigation, that it never occurred," Mannina said, but declined to elaborate on what led police to discover that the account was fabricated.
"We plan on conferring with the D.A.'s office on whether criminal charges will be filed for making a false police report," Mannina said.
"When someone comes forward and reports a crime, we have a moral responsibility and obligation to investigate it," Mannina said.
Now that the investigation is complete, he said, "We hope that the dissemination of this information that this didn't occur will set this community's mind at ease."
E-mail Jaxon Van Derbeken at jvanderbeken@sfchronicle.com.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/08/BA9CTQAMA.DTL
This article appeared on page B - 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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Parson Jim, do you need a job?
You seem to have a talent for newsclipping. How much would you charge for clipping out articles involving root vegetables and potato chips which resemble celebrities?
I know it's not your favorite topic -- news which supports your misogyny -- but whatever. Are you game?
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I vote no on male punching bags
Target practice is impersonal. Domestic violence is quite personal. That's why knives and fists are used much more than guns. Because those are personal, not impersonal, weapons.
Fists and knives are the kinds of weapons criminals use when their violence is really aimed at that other person for very personal reasons.
I don't like the idea of punching bags with any kind of faces, male or female. It's just too personal. It's not just impersonal target practice when it has a face and you can touch it.
I think these punching bags really could encourage domestic violence.
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Stinky Joe
I just wanted to balance the misandry of the clippings in this "roundup".
I noticed you made no mention of that......sad.
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Penrose ...
perhaps those miscarriages were due to distress caused by having an idiot (you) in the family?
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Profound meaninglessness in this statement:
"In general, minor day-to-day experiences don't have an effect on whether a pregnancy is successful or not."
1. "...in general..." So, that means usually, but not always.
2. "...minor day-to-day experiences..." Well, if they're minor, they're minor. What about the major experiences?
3. "...whether a pregnancy is successful or not..." a succesful pregnancy, presumably, is one where baby and mother survive. That's not to say the fetus has not been effected, adversely or otherwise, by the mother's emotions during pregnancy.
Isn't the sentence just saying "Mostly, insignificant events don't contribute to fetal death."?
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Stress and miscarriage
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0511183103v1?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=pregnancy&searchid=1140733703105_9007&FIRSTINDEX=0&journalcode=pnas
Cortisol levels and very early pregnancy loss in humans
( stress | miscarriage | placentation | fetomaternal conflict | evolutionary theory )
Pablo A. Nepomnaschy *{dagger}{ddagger}{sect}, Kathleen B. Welch ¶, Daniel S. McConnell {dagger}||, Bobbi S. Low {ddagger}, Beverly I. Strassmann *,**, and Barry G. England {dagger},{dagger}{dagger}
*Department of Anthropology, 1085 South University Avenue, {dagger}Reproductive Sciences Program, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, L4000 Women's Hospital, {ddagger}School of Natural Resources and Environment, 430 East University Street, ¶Center for Statistical Consultation and Research, 915 East Washington Street, ||Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, 109 Observatory Street, **Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, 426 Thompson Street, and {dagger}{dagger}Department of Pathology, Medical Science I, 1301 Catherine Street, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Communicated by Richard D. Alexander, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, December 27, 2005 (received for review December 17, 2004)
Maternal stress is commonly cited as an important risk factor for spontaneous abortion. For humans, however, there is little physiological evidence linking miscarriage to stress. This lack of evidence may be attributable to a paucity of research on maternal stress during the earliest gestational stages. Most human studies have focused on "clinical" pregnancy (>6 weeks after the last menstrual period). The majority of miscarriages, however, occur earlier, within the first 3 weeks after conception ({approx}5 weeks after the last menstrual period). Studies focused on clinical pregnancy thus miss the most critical period for pregnancy continuance. We examined the association between miscarriage and levels of maternal urinary cortisol during the first 3 weeks after conception. Pregnancies characterized by increased maternal cortisol during this period (within participant analyses) were more likely to result in spontaneous abortion (P < 0.05). This evidence links increased levels in this stress marker with a higher risk of early pregnancy loss in humans.
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it's their money...
If somebody's husband wants to buy his wife a piece of jewelry for giving birth, I don't care. Knock yourselves out.
What's problematic is the marketing by jewelry companies of specific kinds of (expensive) jewelry as appropriate "push presents."
Will this become like the (once only for royalty, then the very wealthy, now nearly ubiquitous) trend of buying diamond engagement rings? And the assumption that your fiance is less of a man if he doesn't plunk down two months salary on a rock?