wow...can't this woman be charged with perjury or something?

[Blue_Tires]

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Mark_Bonokoski/2005/02/20/936479.html

Sun, February 20, 2005

Search for justice

Wayne Batson's life is a mess because he was presumed guilty until proven innocent

By Mark Bonokoski -- For the Toronto Sun


Wayne Batson was in York-Finch Hospital, recovering from a heart attack and hooked up to a monitor and an intravenous drip when the cops came to bust him -- handcuffing him to his bed and posting two guards at the door.

And it would only get worse.

A few days later, the police would go to the media for assistance and the media would oblige -- in print, on television, and on the radio -- by recounting how police were urging any "other" women and children who had had contact with the 48-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old boy to call either Crime Stoppers or 31 Division's sex-crime unit.

And then the police not only gave the public a physical description of the man they had in custody -- black, 5-foot-8, 195 pounds, with short black hair, brown eyes and a moustache -- but they also gave out Wayne Batson's name, with the not-so-subtle inference that police also believed him to be a serial pedophile.

Wayne Batson was as good as guilty.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Very, very sad story...of a lonely man being taken advantage of ..

[Wonk]

2. Filing a false police report and attempted blackmail

would be more appropriate, imho, from the sounds of it.

[Blue_Tires]

3. maybe that's the case

i'm not familiar with laws in Canada...but for this woman to throw out the accusation, give her sob story to investigators, and then just disappear when the shit hits the fan....words cannot express how fucked that is...If it were me, I would personally hunt her down like an animal.

[frankly_fedup2]

4. Sparticus? (nt) Love your avatar! nt)

[Wonk]

5. Yours is nice too. I got this one from Doonesbury, btw.

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20041026

[achtung_circus]

6. Criminal Code of Canada

Part IV- OFFENCES AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION OF LAW AND JUSTICE.

Not perjury, but Public Mischief


140. (1) Every one commits public mischief who, with intent to mislead, causes a peace officer to enter on or continue an investigation by

(a) making a false statement that accuses some other person of having committed an offence;

(b) doing anything intended to cause some other person to be suspected of having committed an offence that the other person has not committed, or to divert suspicion from himself;

(c) reporting that an offence has been committed when it has not been committed; or

(d) reporting or in any other way making it known or causing it to be made known that he or some other person has died when he or that other person has not died.

Punishment


(2) Every one who commits public mischief

(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years; or

(b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 140; R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 19.