Thought I'd make a thread for random news stories that don't really deserve their own thread since I happen to have one of those and didn't see a thread for it.
The upshot here is that the woman who wrote "The Lovely Bones" lied about a man raping her, then went on to write two books about it for fame and profit while he lived in squalor because the patriarchal rape culture feminists insist runs this country was so anxious to convict and punish him even after letting him out of prison. This was apparently undone because one of the producers working on the adaptation of her first book, "Lucky," had a legal background and noticed inconsistencies in the story. After he got fired for asking about these inconsistencies, he hired a PI to look into it and found that this man was convicted on very shaky evidence, which basically consisted of trying to match hair follicles (not DNA, just trying to match how they looked), and then there's the fact that the alleged victim couldn't even point her alleged attacker out in a line-up, and actually had picked out someone entirely different from the man who ended up going on trial.
Man Imprisoned for 16 Years for Raping Lovely Bones Author Is Exonerated
Alice Sebold achieved fame and fortune while Anthony Broadwater has been living as a pariah for over 20 years on the sex offender registry.
reason.com
The upshot here is that the woman who wrote "The Lovely Bones" lied about a man raping her, then went on to write two books about it for fame and profit while he lived in squalor because the patriarchal rape culture feminists insist runs this country was so anxious to convict and punish him even after letting him out of prison. This was apparently undone because one of the producers working on the adaptation of her first book, "Lucky," had a legal background and noticed inconsistencies in the story. After he got fired for asking about these inconsistencies, he hired a PI to look into it and found that this man was convicted on very shaky evidence, which basically consisted of trying to match hair follicles (not DNA, just trying to match how they looked), and then there's the fact that the alleged victim couldn't even point her alleged attacker out in a line-up, and actually had picked out someone entirely different from the man who ended up going on trial.