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In reply to the discussion: Tawana Brawley ordered to pay up (over false kidnap/rape claims) [View all]kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)32. Wow. For some reason I thought she had long since confessed to the lie and apologized.
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Tawana Brawley ordered to pay up (over false kidnap/rape claims) [View all]
The Straight Story
Feb 2013
OP
Have you ever been falsely accused of rape, especially in a case with so much national attention?
jmg257
Feb 2013
#2
Oh, it's almost certainly no about the money, which he certainly won't ever see much of.
kestrel91316
Feb 2013
#12
I thought she had apologized years ago. Apparently she never has, and continued to
kestrel91316
Feb 2013
#37
I thought she had apologized years ago. Apparently she never has. So she has no one to blame
kestrel91316
Feb 2013
#38
Your right he was wrongly accused. However, she was 15 yrs old scared to death of
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2013
#30
Wow. For some reason I thought she had long since confessed to the lie and apologized.
kestrel91316
Feb 2013
#32
You hit the nail on the HEAD! No mercy for her, she could probably have settled this matter a long
cecilfirefox
Feb 2013
#40
The incident I refer to is when she was found and claimed she had been raped.
kestrel91316
Feb 2013
#35
Yep...a grand lie to keep her from getting in trouble with her mother/step father.
jmg257
Feb 2013
#8
Pagones said he will forgive the payment if she tells the truth and apologizes.
Nye Bevan
Feb 2013
#6
Why? I am glad back then someone was willing to stick up for a young black woman.
KittyWampus
Feb 2013
#9
If by "go to the mat" you mean "accuse people of rape with no evidence at all, ruining their lives",
Nye Bevan
Feb 2013
#17
A $431K judgment against a dumb 15 year old kid? And its being pursued into her 40s?
stevenleser
Feb 2013
#26