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High School Girls Admitted to Making False Sexual Assault Accusations Against a Male Student Because They "Just Don’t Like Him"

Seneca Valley School District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is facing a lawsuit from a former male student who was forced out of school—and investigated for sexual assault—due to a series of false accusations made by female students. 

The false allegations were life-derailing for the accused, who is referred to as "T.F." in the lawsuit. On October 3, 2017, one of the girls told other students that T.F. had sexually assaulted her at a pool; a Seneca Valley guidance counselor overheard the accusation, and reported it to Childline, the state's child abuse prevention agency, as required by law. T.F. was swiftly charged with indecent assault and harassment, and received six months of probation as part of a plea deal.

DYI:  Hopefully Reason Magazine will do some digging into the ins and outs of this plea bargain.  Many times people will take the plea deal as battling it out in court becomes a crap shoot for a far worse deal.  This goes double when the individual in this case is actually innocent only to be proven months later.

Months later, in March of 2018, T.F. was again falsely accused, according to the lawsuit. Another girl invited him over to a house party; a few days later, she told the school guidance counselor that T.F. had broken into her home and sexually assaulted her. The lawsuit claims she was coached by T.F.'s first accuser. As a result of this accusation, T.F. was charged with assault and criminal trespassing 

. He was removed from school in leg and wrist shackles, and spent 9 days in juvenile detention. 

By the end of the summer, the conspiracy against T.F. was unmasked: other students came forward with Snapchat messages that contradicted the claims of the "mean girls," who eventually admitted to lying. 

All charges against T.F. were dropped. 

But T.F.'s family is understandably distraught that the girls have suffered no consequences: neither the police nor the school district have taken any action against them, according to the lawsuit. And so the family is pursuing legal action against the girls' parents, the school district, and the district attorney. 

From the school's perspective, it had no choice but to involve Childline when it learned about a possible sexual assault. And school officials can't punish any of the female students for their bad behavior outside of school. 

These are valid points, and it may very well be that the school did everything it was required to do. I'm making note of this case because of the national conversation we seem to be having about the existence of false sexual assault accusations in the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. False accusations may not be common, but they do happen. 

To pretend otherwise, as fourth-wave feminism's believe-all-victims mantra demands, is to ignore a large number of cases involving young people—often young black men—wrongly accused of sexual misconduct.

DYI:  Once the cat was out of the bag [false accusations] the police department quickly and rightfully so drop all charges.  But from there on those who knew the truth for were hoping this would all be forgotten and when it didn’t, due to the lawsuits, are now circling the wagons.  At the very least the Superintendent and Principal should be fired and in depth review of the detective during the first investigation resulting in a plea bargain.

I’m hoping this young boy’s family takes these lawsuits all the way to jury and rejects any plea deals.  This needs to be a matter of public record.  Hopefully they will win and asset-strip to their boxer shorts the school district [sorry taxpayers in Pennsylvania] and the families of these totally out of control girl(s).

DYI