RE: Joseph & Potiphar's wife

Ok - let's talk tomorrow morning to flesh out the issues we want to explore with him. As I see it right now:

- Counter-intuitive behavior + intuitive behavior = all behavior, thus counter-intuitive behavior is not helpful in diagnosing/determining if someone *is* a rape victim.

- psychological reasons why people make false rape allegations (attention-seekers, retaliation, blame-shifters, etc)

- he wasn't there and he hasn't heard from anyone other than Klay about what happened/didn't happen in the room on 28 Aug

- he's had patients lie to him before. Klay is a smart woman (USNA, working on Masters in Social Work) who has studied psychological responses to trauma and *could* be more than capable of deceiving him, esp. given the short amount of time he's spent with her.

I know there's more to explore, but my brain is tired... I'm about to hit the rack and plan on getting to Quantico before 7.

Do you have e-copies of the questions or outline you used at the 32? Lots of good stuff there that we can reuse.

Thank you for all this. I would really like you to do Grieger if you can. 

Haytham Faraj 
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On Dec 11, 2011, at 5:46 PM, "Shinn Capt Scott R" <scott.shinn@usmc.mil> wrote:

> Haytham,
>  The biblical story of a false allegation of rape I mentioned yesterday is about Joseph and Potiphar's wife.  Genesis Chapter 39, verses 1-20  (see http://www.the-spearhead.com/2010/02/25/potiphars-wife-false-rape-accuser-of-the-bible/
> 
>  Another money quote is Sir Matthew Hale's seventeenth century opinion that rape "is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent."
> 
> Errata:
> 
> Given the multiple allegations of prior sex assault, Munchaussen Syndrome could be an explanation.  I doubt Greiger will agree on the stand that she has it, but it's at least possible.
> 
> Common reasons given by women who falsely accused rape were "spite or revenge," and to compensate for feelings of guilt or shame. (C.P. McDowell, Forensic Science Digest, vol. 11. no. 4, Dec 1985).
> 
> False accusers were motivated by a need for an alibi or a desire for revenge (E. J. Kanin, "False rape allegations." Archives of Sexual Behavior, vol. 23 no. 1, 81-92. 1994).
> 
> Good law review article on false allegations of rape
> Rumney, P. N. S. (2006). False allegations of rape. The Cambridge Law Journal, 65(1), 128-158. (attached)
> 
> Interesting recent story about a psychologist who claimed she was raped IOT move to a 'safer neighborhood.' http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/09/4110703/police-allege-folsom-prison-psychologist.html
> 
> Fox News Article about false allegations of rape (2006)
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194032,00.html
> 
> 
> 
> S/F
> ~Russ
> <Cambridge Law Journal re false allegations of rape.pdf>