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DA Has ‘Serious Doubts’ About Rape Claim Against Fox’s Greg Kelly – NY Post Reports

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According to a report from The New York Post, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said they have “serious doubts” over a woman’s allegations she was sexually assaulted by TV anchor and son of New York police commissioner Ray Kelly, “and will likely not file criminal charges against the TV anchor.”

Sources from the DA’s office say they don’t believe the claims against Greg Kelly, calling it a “bunch of bullsh**”.

RELATED: Fox Anchorman Greg Kelly’s Alleged Rape Victim Terminated Resulting Pregnancy – AP Source

The newspaper reports:

‘It sounds like she got caught [cheating] by her boyfriend, and then he forces her hand: “If you’re not lying, you better report”.’

The DA’s office are said to be suspicious of the woman’s claims for a number of reasons.

[...]

The source told the Post: ‘The length of time (she took to complain) is a problem.

‘And you don’t communicate with someone who raped you.’

Another law-enforcement source said: ‘The fact pattern is very suspicious . . . It just reeks of bull sh**.’

The Manhattan district attorney is investigating the serious allegations, as an NYPD probe could be seen as a conflict of interest.

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  • Anonymous

    Right! Anyone with common sense will have doubt about the silly case. It was rape after her boyfriend found out, before he did they were texting and phoning. Maybe someone should have put it in his head that, she might not have been faithful, just think about it. You can’t just taint people with false allegation of rape, it demeans the crime and may cause real rape to be disregarded in future.

  • Moderate

    It is getting to the point that we need to get a signed contract of consent before having sex.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s the problem:  Unless they can get her to recant – on tape – the chances of her being prosecuted for making a false statement to police are virtually zero.  Where does that leave Kelly?  He’s SOL.  The damage that has been done to his reputation is incalculable, but her reputation (in the court of public opinion) with go completely unsullied because no one knows her name.

    It’s time to end this double-standard of reporting the alleged assailants name in these rape cases and not reporting the name of the alleged victim.  You either keep both confidential, or you keep neither confidential.

  • Pablo

    He should sue her.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NRXU7LAJ2DLVHPGX25WOQR3RI4 chris l

    The facts that are out there definitely support the idea that it’s a bogus claim. 

  • Anonymous

    Hear, hear! You are absolutely right.

    And here’s another case where the young man has suffered irreparable harm. He WAS a nominee for the Rhodes Scholarship, but no longer, and has left Yale. 

    http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2012/01/the_times_vilifies_another_ath.htmlBut, of course, this is the New York Times. And if the Duke lacrosse case left no other legacy, it’s that the paper frames its coverage of campus allegations of sexual assault in such a way that ignores issues of due process.I don’t know if Witt is innocent or guilty. But I do know that, at least at this stage, he’s entitled to the something beyond a presumption of innocence, since his accuser did not file a report with police, receive a medical exam, or even file a formal campus complaint (in which he would have had some, albeit minor, due process protections). In the upside-down post-”Dear Colleague” era, however, Witt becomes the highest-profile case of a student who chose to withdraw from school rather than face a kangaroo system of “justice.” That’s not an angle the Times has deemed even worthy of a mention.

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t that what prostitutes do? 

  • Anonymous

    True, but then, a woman can still claim that she was “impaired” when she signed- any alcohol consumption could negate her ability to consent.

    See what we’ve come to! Ridiculous!

  • Anonymous

    I tell you this am sick of females thinking they can eat their cake and have it. The Feminist have won they wanted to be treated equally in all public works of life, fine they have it. But they should show their faces now and ask for same treatment in regards to Justice. Why should females get away with false allegations just because of their sex? It’s ridiculous. This is what the phonies in congress should be doing instead of petty fighting.

  • Pablo

    The there’s this kid: http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/90731034.html?page=1

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A former Brown University student alleges in
    a lawsuit unsealed Monday that he was removed from campus more than
    three years ago after being falsely accused of rape by the daughter of a
    major donor and fundraiser for the Ivy League school.

    William McCormick III and his parents say university administrators
    gave him a one-way ticket home to Wisconsin after he was accused of rape
    in the fall of 2006. McCormick alleges the school never told the police
    about the rape allegations and accepted them as true without doing an
    investigation.

    The lawsuit says the father of the accusing student is a Brown
    alumnus who has “donated and raised very substantial sums of money,” was
    in regular contact about the allegations with school administrators and
    contacted university president Ruth Simmons directly.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Looks like George Soros used up his Rape/Sexual Harassment  Card on Herman Cain.

  • Anonymous

    Anyone who once worked at Fox News and was a Marine aviator, must be a rapist and is certainly a racist.

  • Anonymous

    Unfortunately, there are those women who resort to lying in order to get publicity for themselves, to be vindictive or for whatever reasons.  AND, it makes it bad for those women who are truly raped.

    I don’t want my son to be falsely accused of rape, so I want to make sure those women who lie are exposed.  And this woman is lying.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed, but I’ll raise you with this:

    Why is the complainant’s name withheld to protect her identity in these cases, but the accused’s name is splashed everywhere?

    BOTH names should be withheld until adjudication. Too many times the charges end up being false but the damage is done – like in this case.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    You mean his career and reputation was ruined by this woman for nothing??

    That wasn’t very nice of her!!

  • Anonymous

    “BOTH names should be withheld until adjudication.”

    I agree with that completely.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    WOMEN: Muzzle your idiots. Cry wolf claims are only going to weaken the cases where RAPE truly occurs. MUZZLE YOUR IDIOTS.

    MEN: FIGHT THIS IDIOCY.. its a shame that a MAN can be accused of something, find his face and name plastered all over the paper as an “alleged rapist” only because one chick saying “he raped me”. This has to stop. It is not going to effect Mr. Kelly, but doubtful allegations blasted on the pages of our websites and newspapers would END the lives of “regular guys” and for what.. SOME CHICK’S LIES??

  • BooBoo Bear

    Can’t wait until someone you know gets raped. Only  37% of rapes are reported: One of six rapes are committed on girls under the age of 12. 50% are committed on girls under the age of 18 A rape occurs once every two minutes on average in the US. Usually the media doesn’t report who committed the rapes because most often there is no media coverage of the arrest.

    We have this and the Duke rapists being reported however I don’t know of any others. So evidently 99% of rapists are silently arrested like it should be. I think the DA in the Duke case is the one that reported who the reportedly attackers were. He should not have done so.

  • Anonymous

    “Can’t wait until someone you know gets raped”

    Dude, that’s just unhinged.  If you disagree with something I have said, are you incapable of making your point without saying that you can’t wait until someone I know gets raped?  Really?

    “Usually the
    media doesn’t report who committed the rapes because most often there is
    no media coverage of the arrest.”

    Virtually every newspaper in this country has (at a minimum) a daily police blotter.  This blotter publicly names the people who have been arrested for rape.  Beyond that, most local TV stations have permanent cameras set up in their municipal courts that handle morning arraignments.  This serves one purpose and one purpose only:  So the TV can get their evening news money shot of the perp in handcuffs standing before a judge pleading not guilty.

    You’re saying that because you can only remember two nationally reported cases of false rape accusations, that there are other cases that don’t get reported.  Your statement is fallacious, on its face.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you. Some of us may be really harsh about this but that does not mean we are truly empathetic of women who are actually sexually assaulted and raped….a crime that is widely under-reported. 

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    The boyfriend probably doesn’t know about the emails and text messages.  I bet he feels like a fool now.

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    He should buy a billboard and post flyers where she lives and works that has a picture of her and reads:

    “Avoid this woman at all cost.  She will cheat on her boyfriend and then accuse you of rape”. 

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    37% of BooBoo Bear’s brain is made of cow shit.  50% of BooBoo bear’s brain is made of dogshit and the other 13% is still a mystery.

    See…I can make up statistics too.

  • Pablo

    Yes, it is going to affect Mr. Kelly. For the rest of his life his name is going to have “accused of rape” associated with it, regardless of the outcome.

  • Anonymous

    That is true.  But, I think more are reporting rape today than in the past.  In the past, women were made to feel as though “they asked for it”.  That of course, is stupid;  I would think that any woman not open to having sex would not be accepting an invitation that could lead to unwanted sex. 

  • Anonymous

    “Everybody [the woman and Kelly] was a happy camper until the boyfriend found out.””The woman told police that Kelly got her pregnant and that she had an abortion.Investigators aren’t doubting that story.They believe her boyfriend grew suspicious because she refused to have sex with him. She finally confessed that she couldn’t sleep with him because she had undergone an abortion.”"The unmarried Greg Kelly — a former Marine who co-hosts Fox 5 TV’s “Good Day New York” — has denied raping the woman, and has provided the DA’s Office with text messages that they exchanged after their encounter and which he believes will clear him.
    But the 43-year-old Greg Kelly has not denied having sex with her in her law-firm offices after drinking with her in a South Street Seaport bar.”
    “A source said Ray Kelly has seen the bar bill from that night, and has privately said it was “laughably low” — which helps knock down the claim that she was drunk.”
    Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/she_blue_blood_LfiNvTjXuGTECanaDsgzyL#ixzz1klVId0tu

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Spoken like a true rapist.

  • Anonymous

    You were there so you can claim and prove that the guy is innocent?

  • Anonymous

    There are a few things wrong with this: News corp owns this guys contract and the Post and it reflects on Faux nationally so I doubt that the Post has a credible source and since it does involve an issue of the rape shield law (that NY has) the Post if requested must reveal the source and something tells me that will never happen PLUS some of the reporting in the article is just to stupid sounding as if with something this inflammatory the DAs office would leak opinions of people and to the Post a sister company to the accused employer.

    NOPE I DO NOT BELIEVE THE POST HAS AN HONEST STORY HERE AND MAY IN FACT BE PART OF A FABRICATION EFFORT, after all it is a News Corp. property and we know News Corp is not above criminal activity, both here and abroad.

  • Anonymous

    What facts? Every thing at this point seems to be anonymous or conjured up out of thin air speculation.

    NewsCorp/Local Faux station/NY Post all one big happy family.

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