Convicted Marine's Filipino Rape Accuser Changes Her Story

[Bear]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509668,00.html

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"Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said the woman could be charged with perjury and her affidavit may not be admitted as new evidence because it should have been introduced during the 2006 trial.

"I am not happy with her because her accusations divided the nation, then she turns her back on everything," he said, adding the case had affected the country's foreign policy.

The U.S. Embassy in Manila is consulting with American government legal experts in Washington on the case, embassy spokeswoman Rebecca Thompson said, without elaborating. She refused to comment on reports that the woman had gone to the United States."

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Throw her under the jail!!!

The Bear Family

[Ray]

I told you this case was a trumped up lie from the beginning.

The woman "Nicole" was obviously urged by the Olongapo City police department to file the phony accusations of gang rape. Even the Filipino van driver was charged with gang rape and also faced the death penalty when he refused to testify that a rape had occurred.

The OC police have a long history of this nonsense. When charges are filed, the accused can either face trial and a possible death sentence or buy off the accuser to drop the charges. When the payoff takes place, the police get half of the take while the accuser gets the rest.

But in this case, before the money deal could be arranged, the commie feminazis got involved and made it a national issue in their ongoing anti-American campaign.  Then the trial judge sided with the commies and convicted the guy and sentenced him to 40 years when he obviously knew the charges were phony.

Then when it leaked out that the appeals court judge hearing the case was ready to issue a ruling overturning the conviction, he was forced to retire under pressure from the commies and the appeals process started all over again with a new judge more sympathetic to the cause of the commies.

So that's why the status of forces agreement was written to allow the accused military man to remain in US custody while the legal stuff was sorted out. Had he been sent to a Philippine jail to serve his sentence, I am convinced that he would have been dead long ago.

[Dave H]

Hey Ray,

EXACTLY!

I was in the Philippines when the 'rape" occurred. Filipinos knew it was BULLSHlT! and that the Olongapo City police were trying to milk the situation as usual...until the commie feminazis outsmarted the police and staged a coup d'etat. Even when "Nicole" tried to drop the rape charges, the femnazis pushed harder to further their anti-American, anti MOB, and anti-male causes!!! Interesting how Gabriela is largely funded by Filipina femnazis living and working in the US. When attorney Katrina Legarda dropped the case like a rotten balut, there remained no doubt that the whole thing stunk to high heaven!!!

Dave

[Ray]

‘Nicole’ more truthful in latest affidavit

March 19, 2009 15:21:00
Leila Salaverria Lira Dalangin-Fernandez lira.fernandez@inquirer.net
Philippine Daily Inquirer INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE) “Nicole”, the Filipino woman who accused an American Marine of raping her in 2005, told more of the truth in her latest affidavit, according to a lawmaker who was among the first to talk to her following the incident.

Zambales Representative Milagros Magsaysay said the March 12 affidavit that virtually cleared American serviceman Daniel Smith of rape is more credible than the first one that she had filed along with her criminal complaint.

Speaking at the Serye Forum in Quezon City, Magsaysay said Nicole's first affidavit was actually not the complete version of the truth that Nicole had narrated to her.

Based on the circumstances surrounding the case, she said it seems that no rape took place.

“If you would look at the circumstances surrounding it, it would appear that she was not raped,” Magsaysay said.

Three years after Lance Corporal Daniel Smith was convicted of rape and sentenced to 40 years in jail, Nicolas submitted a five-page affidavit to an appeals court Tuesday saying she now doubts her own version of events.

"My conscience continues to bother me realizing that I may have in fact been so friendly and intimate with Daniel Smith ... that he was led to believe that I was amenable to having sex or that we simply just got carried away," the woman said in the statement.

She described the two were drinking, kissing and dancing at a bar at the former US Naval base at Subic Bay before moving to a van, where she originally told the court she was raped while she passed out on November 1, 2005. Smith had insisted the sex was consensual.

Magsaysay said: “Whatever she said in this affidavit that came out is more or less sticking to the facts.”

Magsaysay was among the first persons who had spoken to Nicole and several witnesses, including Nicole’s cousin, sister and the driver of the van, shortly after the incident.

The incident happened in Subic, which is part of Magsaysay’s congressional district.

Magsaysay said that the details mentioned by Nicole in her second affidavit were consistent with what the victim told her in 2005.

“All of them were correct— that she was mixing her drinks, that she didn’t want to return to her room, that she went with the American, she rode on the van, all those are correct,” Magsaysay said.

Asked how the first affidavit differed from the latest one, the lawmaker replied: “All I can remember is it was not a factual [account] of the truth as she told me. Parang medyo [It's as if] there were some information left out … of her affidavit and the driver's affidavit.”

Magsaysay said that Nicole “might have invited (Smith) and gave him the wrong signals.”

The congresswoman said that when she talked to Nicole, she latter did not say she was raped.

“She was more afraid that her mother would get mad at her for what happened,” Magsaysay said.

The turnabout has shocked Nicole’s supporters, including lawyer Evalyn Ursua, who said her client terminated her services this week then moved to the US to start a new life and was no longer willing to talk.

Smith, 23, from St. Louis, Missouri, has been detained at the US Embassy while his case is on appeal. Last month, the Philippine Supreme Court ruled he should be serving his sentence in a Philippine jail but left it to the government to negotiate his transfer with Washington. Smith is appealing his conviction.

The case has strained US-Philippine military relations amid calls for the scrapping of a pact allowing US troops to train Filipino soldiers, and has become a rallying point for anti-American protests. With The Associated Press
Copyright 2009 INQUIRER.net

[michaelb]

The turnabout has shocked Nicole’s supporters, including lawyer Evalyn Ursua, who said her client terminated her services this week then moved to the US to start a new life and was no longer willing to talk.

How did she manage that? Move to the US ("to start a new life", no less)? Did some fool sponsor her for a K-1? If that's the case, who wants to make an over/under book on how long before she self petitions for removal of conditions as a "battered woman"? I'm not saying that women never get abused, and (to the feminazis monitoring the board, I am certainly not saying that those who do "deserved" it),  but neither the villagers nor La Migra should rush to help the shepherd girl when she cries "Wolf!" a second time. Personally, I think she (and all false accusers) should get the same penalty the person they are accusing would have gotten. Now, I don't mean for honest cases of mistaken identity of the perpetrator when a crime actually was committed, but totally fabricated junk like this needs to be punished.