{News Stories} - False DV Allegations

{News Stories} - False DV Allegations

Here are some stories of false DV allegations. (Updated: 2013/09/08.)

  • Ligia Filler falsely accused her husband Vladek Filler of domestic violence and spousal rape, and his legal nightmare began.
  • Firefighter Dan Iagatta passed away as a result of serious injuries sustained while training for a triathlon, after being struck by a motorist. Dan, a loving father of 2, a businessman, and active and popular member of his community had a restraining order served on him that was signed by Judge Beverly Boorstein. This occurred a couple of months after his accident which had left him in a wheelchair and a quadriplegic with just enough movement in one arm to operate a motorized wheelchair. The restraining order petition by his wife Michelle Iagatta, after she filed for divorce, claimed that she was, "afraid". It was argued and ignored that Dan could not move without help and had to make costly modifications to his childhood home to accommodate his complete disability status. Judge Boorstein then later ordered the sale of Dan's childhood home - with all of modifications to accommodate his disability supplied by friends and family - to pay off his wife's lawyers. Dan was evicted and literally wheeled out to the curb like trash. (The judge Boorstein retired shortly thereafter when private investigators had her on videotape doing personal errands and shopping at malls during work hours. But even now she operates some type of consulting business while receiving a lucrative public employee retirement.)
  • 7 years ago, Gustl Mollath (56) made a claim that staff at the Hypo Vereinsbank (HVB) - including his wife, then an assets consultant at HVB - had been illegally smuggling large sums of money into Switzerland. His ex-wife accused him of causing her physical harm. He denied the charges, claiming she was trying to sully his name in the light of the evidence he allegedly had against her. The woman's story was believed (of course), and the man, after the court experts "diagnosed" him with paranoid personality disorder, was committed to a high-security psychiatric hospital - where he has remained against his will ever since. Now, he is to have his case reviewed after evidence has emerged proving the validity of his claims and showing that the money-laundering activities were indeed practiced over several years by members of staff at the bank, as detailed in an internal audit report carried out by the bank in 2003. The report, which has now been posted online, detailed illegal activities including money-laundering and aiding tax evasion. A number of employees, including Mollath's wife, were subsequently sacked following the bank's investigation. The "Mollath affair" (as it has been dubbed by the German media) has taken on such political dimensions that it now threatens to bring down the government of Bavaria. Under the weight of public and political pressure, Mollath's case was forced to be reopened, amid charges that Mollath was possibly the victim of a gross miscarriage of justice. Justice minister Beate Merk, who has refused repeated calls to resign, said she had no doubt the case had been carried out "by the book and quite correctly". Mollath has been inundated with public support in the form of thousands of letters and internet posts, many comparing his fight to that of David versus Goliath. In an interview in his sparsely furnished room in Bayreuth's hospital for psychiatry, he pointed out the irony that he had suffered the fate he had repeatedly warned his wife she would face, telling her, 'Please be careful. One day you will end up in handcuffs and then you'll be banged up for a few years'. Asked why the bank kept the report to itself and did not approach the authorities, a spokeswoman for HVB told the Guardian, "In 2003 HVB initiated extensive investigations via internal audits in response to information provided by Mr Mollath on transactions that had taken place a long time before... It was determined that employees had acted contrary to their instructions regarding Swiss banking transactions".
  • Actress Pauley Perrette manipulates the family law system (which distributes restraining orders like cookies), turning it into a circus-like drama, to inflict harm on her ex-husband, Francis "Coyote" Shivers. The Kangaroo court, in addition to issuing him yet another unreasonable restraing order and setting up an astronomically high amount of bail value, also bans him from using Twitter, thereby violating his first amendment rights.
  • Gary Trieste tells his story of the kangaroo court injustice through manipulation of the system by his daughter Anya's mother Suzanne M Cayley, who made up false allegations to throw him away from his daughter's life and also abused Anya, with full encouragement from the courts, CPS, mental health services, school administration, and other elements of the system.
  • Former Colorado Springs police officer Sydney Huffman (25) lied about domestic violence to put estranged boyfriend Jarrott Martinez in prison. The attorneys for the victim Martinez have called the incident a "campaign of personal destruction" against him that led to more than 6 months in jail, 2 jury trials, and the loss of his job as a police officer. Martinez said he has been unable to find work since his termination, partly because a restraining order Huffman took out against him has remained active. Charged with 6 counts of attempting to influence a public official (an instance of which is a class 4 felony punishable by 2 to 6 years in prison) - each related to a different occasion in which she allegedly lied to police to obtain an arrest warrant against Martinez - Huffman pleaded guilty to just 1 felony count. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss the remainder of the charges. Martinez had been twice acquitted of domestic violence charges at trials in which Huffman's testimony came under suspicion. Nevertheless, after the jury acquittals, police sought another arrest warrant based on new allegations that he sexually assaulted her with a curling iron. Those charges were dropped by prosecutors and the District Attorney's Office instead filed charges against Huffman. Huffman was placed on paid administrative leave for months after her arrest.
  • Former Eloy resident and high school teacher Richard W. Cassalata's ex-girlfriend "used the police to harass him"; based on the false reports and constant police badgering by his ex-girlfriend, Cassalata says, it eventually led to his arrest under domestic violence.
  • SIFF (Save Indian Family Foundation) is a men's rights organization in India, dealing with the cases of false DV/dowry allegations, divorce, child custody, and related matters. SIFF recently opened its Jammu chapter. Maanav Mishra, whose wife and her family had falsely accused him of torturing them for dowry, after recently winning his case, volunteered to head the organization in Jammu. Bakshinagar's small time magazine business owner Rajinder Kumar's wife left him for her parental home along with their 2 little children, and threatened to launch a police and court offensive if he failed to provide her an astronomical amount every month, which is beyond his means given his petty earnings. He says, "It is only the initiative taken by SIFF and Maanav that I am feeling little secure..." (secure from the government and the judicial system that is, which are eager to imprison and rob him; this is shameful). One Mr Gupta (first name hidden to conceal identity), who is a lawyer himself, is another aggrieved husband whose wife falsely accused him of demanding dowry. The case was settled out of court as Gupta succumbed to her demands to save his reputation (reputation of an individual means a lot in the Indian social settings). Less the retained reputation, the case is otherwise the same: He is parting with a substantial amount from his earnings to give to his wife. This clearly shows how biased the dowry law in India is - Even a lawyer knows that it's next to impossible to win a dowry case against a man, otherwise he could have easily challenged the case (given that he is anyway having to pay the money to his wife). Gupta is now also a formal member of SIFF.
  • Phil Davis - winner of national championship at Penn State and 4-time All-American, and now a Mixed Martial Artist (MMA), a Top 10 fighter in the UFC - has got false, uncorroborated domestic violence allegation and charges of angry sexual techniques from his daughter's mom, Vantris Patterson. (The linked story also mentions 3 other similar cases.)
  • US Marine Joseph Kerr's marriage was on the verge of collapse, and had been there for at least 2 years. He was staying for the kids. Joseph and his wife fought (verbally) nearly every time they had more than a few sentences to say to each other. Finally, she wanted to move out of state with the kids and had no interest in discussing sharing custody. "We're not discussing it, you can't stop us from leaving. Sign it or I'll get a lawyer and make you sign it." She handed him a do-it-yourself version of divorce papers. This followed the email confirmation - plane tickets, one adult (the wife), two children, one way, leaving soon. Joseph slept on the couch on the night before the flight. He ended up on the ground next to the stairs. She kicked his head into the solid wood base. He blacked out, came to, stood up, bleeding. His daughter was screaming, "Stop hurting daddy!" He headed out the door to the police and then the hospital. While going to the police, his head was spinning as much from the injury as from the complete collapse of his home life. Police did not help him. Even though they know what they were doing was wrong, they arrested Joseph instead, because his wife lied to them and their hands were tied with the feminist primary agressor policy, according to which the male partner should be arrested regardless of who actually is the perpetrator. "Sorry, man" was all the police could say. They never took photographs of the side of his face that showed that his wife attacked him. Then the court case followed and, released on his own recognizance, order of protection outlawed him from contacting her or his kids for a year. A few days later his eye had an almost cartoonish discoloration. he had gone back to the ER complaining of headaches and the light bothering him. She cleared out his bank account. He was a friend's couch away from adding to the homeless veteran population: 62619 + 1.
    Another time, she had grabbed him and ripped his shirt. Her nails cut his face. He bled. He tried to walk out the door. She blocked the door. He was left to sneak out a bedroom window and spend the night in a parking lot. He talked of this to his lawyer and asked, "What do you do when a woman hits you?" The answer was, "Run. Run and don't go to the police." What's the law good for? What's the police good for? Everything is feminist and corrupt. Your guilt or reward depends upon your gender, not your deeds. The child protective services, which are also feminist trained, only used his having been to Iraq at service of his country against him and to paint him as a dangerous machine of violence and death.
  • Woman threatens the man at gunpoint, man leaves and goes to the police to file report, woman calls 911 from his home, and the man is held culprit, at which point his horror stories involving corrupt courts and lawyers begin.
  • Kelly Conboy (33, Legislative Director for a State Senator) falsely accuses her husband William Conboy III (35, ex-county prosecutor) of kicking her in the throat and choking her.
  • Woman (who wants to be known only as Mrs Alvarez) was violent toward her husband Enrique Alvarez Delfin (a pilot) and had once hurt him in a fight on January 29 (for which he did not make a police report because he did not want his wife to face police questioning). The couple separated soon after and Mrs Alvarez (who is unemployed) returned home to Bolivia in February. A month after she left, Mr Alvarez received a demand through her lawyers in Miami asking him to pay US$25000 for "attempted murder, domestic violence, psychological and emotional stress". He refused to give in to her demands. She had also lodged 3 police reports against him alleging that he assaulted her breaking one of her ribs, emptied their joint bank account, and took antiques from her grandfather before leaving Singapore. So the police went looking for him. Mr Alvarez was shocked to hear about the report and his wife's accusations. He is fighting back and has hired lawyer Gloria James to clear his name. He said, "The account in question is my own account which became a joint account after we got married, as she insisted on it. I closed the account because I was leaving Singapore temporarily and also all her belongings were sent to Bolivia as she requested after she left in February." He also denied ever hitting his wife.
  • Leanne Black (32) has made 5 false rape allegations against her ex-boyfriends in 8 years after rowing or breaking up with them, and is finally given just 2 years in prison. (She will serve half her sentence before being released on licence.) In the most recent case in March, her boyfriend Kevin Crowley called police to report that she had thrown plates at him in their flat, and was himself held on suspicion of rape as Black made the false accusation against him! (And of course, once a woman has spoketh, what's the value or need of the man's words?) So why would the male victims of DV feel confident reporting to the police?
  • Actress from hit TV show Heroes and most recently starred in TV series Blue Bloods and The Good Wife, Tawny Cypress (36), lured her ex-husband Bill Charles (58) to New York burger bar by inviting him for a meet up, and had her new husband Thomas Dillon (AKA Tom Dillon) attack and beat him up with a "hard object", knocking him down and causing a concussion. She also framed Charles so that he spent 6 days in jail! Court records show Mr Charles was charged with 4 misdemeanors, including assault and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
  • The Iraq war veteran turned NFL cheerleader Megan Welter arrested on assault charges. Welter had first placed a 911 call to the Scottsdale police, falsely claiming physical abuse from her boyfriend Ryan when they'd both been drinking to celebrate her birthday, "My boyfriend became abusive... He smashed my head into tile". She added that he had also put her in a "choke hold" and that "He knows how to fight, he's a professional fighter, he's been trained in wrestling". In reality, though, it was Welter who had actually assaulted him, and he had recorded the fight on his phone. "She found a text message from another girl and she started kicking the shit out of me", he explained, adding that he hadn't touched her. "I was asking her to stop, I was trying to leave. She was pulling out my hair, she was scratching me, she punched me in my face."
  • Woman admits making false allegations of DV to Dr Phil. (She got the pussy pass.)

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