The woman whose false rape accusation sent a high school football star to prison has been ordered to pay a $2.6 million judgement in connection to the case, NBC 4 Los Angeles reports.

Wanetta Gibson (pictured) was ordered by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday to pay a $1.5 million, plus an additional $1.1 million in fees. Gibson was an acquaintance of Brian Banks at Long Beach Polytechnic High School when she accused him of raping her in a school stairwell. Gibson then sued the Long Beach Unified School District, claiming the school was not safe; she won a $750,000 settlement.

Gibson’s false accusation sent Banks to prison for five years, stripping him of his football scholarship to the University of Southern California. After Banks was released from prison, Gibson sent him a Facebook message saying “Let’s let bygones be bygones.” Thinking the message was odd, Banks worked with a private investigator to set up a meeting with Gibson. It was during their meeting where she admitted, on hidden camera, that she lied about the rape.

With the help of California’s Innocence Project, a judge overturned Banks’ conviction on May 24, 2012.

Since then, Banks had been on a mission to play in the NFL. He tried out for a number of teams, but did not make the cut. However, NFL coaches told him to keep trying. He eventually spent some time with the Las Vegas Locos of the United Football League, until the Atlanta Falcons signed him this spring.

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sees some value in this loose use of 'rape.' She says angry victims of

various forms of sexual intimidation cry rape to regain their sense of

power. 'To use the word carefully would be to be careful for the sake of

the violator, and the survivors don't care a hoot about him.' Comins

argues that men who are unjustly accused can sometimes gain from the

experience. 'They have a lot of pain, but it is not a pain that I would

necessarily have spared them. I think it ideally initiates a process of

self-exploration. 'How do I see women?' 'If I didn't violate her, could I

have?' 'Do I have the potential to do to her what they say I did?'

Those are good questions.'"

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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,157165,00.html

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Wtf this is amazing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284740&forum_id=2#23417893)

"Comins

argues that men who are unjustly accused can sometimes gain from the experience."

'They have a lot of pain, but it is not a pain that I would

necessarily have spared them."

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http://newspaperarchives.vassar.edu/cgi-bin/vassar?a=d&d=vcspec19910901-01.2.32&e=-------en-20--1--txt-IN-------

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It's the school district:

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/eye-on-football/22443061/brians-banks-accuser-ordered-to-pay-26-million-to-school-district

She should have to pay him, too.

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Basement-Martials are very serious in the :D household.

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all the "evidence" they had was the stupid bitch's false testimony. how could you go forward in good faith unless you had ANY corroborating material?

if i had prosecuted this case, i'd honestly kill myself out of shame. only a psychopath could do otherwise.

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http://www.qdma.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=9480&stc=1&d=1217475441

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And her mother should be executed.

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it will come to a point where it is 100% at a woman's discretion to determine if she has been "raped."

lol @ this psychotic cunt quoted above ("all men deserve to be accused of rape, whether they have raped or not. it's educational for them. this is not problematic.")

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324600704578405280211043510.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

I am a feminist. I have marched at the barricades, subscribed to Ms. magazine, and knocked on many a door in support of progressive candidates committed to women's rights. Until a month ago, I would have expressed unqualified support for Title IX and for the Violence Against Women Act.

But that was before my son, a senior at a small liberal-arts college in New England, was charged—by an ex-girlfriend—with alleged acts of "nonconsensual sex" that supposedly occurred during the course of their relationship a few years earlier.

What followed was a nightmare—a fall through Alice's looking-glass into a world that I could not possibly have believed existed, least of all behind the ivy-covered walls thought to protect an ostensible dedication to enlightenment and intellectual betterment.

It began with a text of desperation. "CALL ME. URGENT. NOW."

That was how my son informed me that not only had charges been brought against him but that he was ordered to appear to answer these allegations in a matter of days. There was no preliminary inquiry on the part of anyone at the school into these accusations about behavior alleged to have taken place a few years earlier, no consideration of the possibility that jealousy or revenge might be motivating a spurned young ex-lover to lash out. Worst of all, my son would not be afforded a presumption of innocence.

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In fact, Title IX, that so-called guarantor of equality between the sexes on college campuses, and as applied by a recent directive from the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, has obliterated the presumption of innocence that is so foundational to our traditions of justice. On today's college campuses, neither "beyond a reasonable doubt," nor even the lesser "by clear and convincing evidence" standard of proof is required to establish guilt of sexual misconduct.

These safeguards of due process have, by order of the federal government, been replaced by what is known as "a preponderance of the evidence." What this means, in plain English, is that all my son's accuser needed to establish before a campus tribunal is that the allegations were "more likely than not" to have occurred by a margin of proof that can be as slim as 50.1% to 49.9%.

How does this campus tribunal proceed to evaluate the accusations? Upon what evidence is it able to make a judgment?

The frightening answer is that like the proverbial 800-pound gorilla, the tribunal does pretty much whatever it wants, showing scant regard for fundamental fairness, due process of law, and the well-established rules and procedures that have evolved under the Constitution for citizens' protection. Who knew that American college students are required to surrender the Bill of Rights at the campus gates?

My son was given written notice of the charges against him, in the form of a letter from the campus Title IX officer. But instead of affording him the right to be fully informed, the separately listed allegations were a barrage of vague statements, rendering any defense virtually impossible. The letter lacked even the most basic information about the acts alleged to have happened years before. Nor were the allegations supported by any evidence other than the word of the ex-girlfriend.

The hearing itself was a two-hour ordeal of unabated grilling by the school's committee, during which, my son later reported, he was expressly denied his request to be represented by counsel or even to have an attorney outside the door of the room. The questioning, he said, ran far afield even from the vaguely stated allegations contained in the so-called notice. Questions from the distant past, even about unrelated matters, were flung at him with no opportunity for him to give thoughtful answers.

The many pages of written documentation that my son had put together—which were directly on point about his relationship with his accuser during the time period of his alleged wrongful conduct—were dismissed as somehow not relevant. What was relevant, however, according to the committee, was the unsworn testimony of "witnesses" deemed to have observable knowledge about the long-ago relationship between my son and his accuser.

That the recollections of these young people (made under intense peer pressure and with none of the safeguards consistent with fundamental fairness) were relevant—while records of the accuser's email and social media postings were not—made a mockery of the very term. While my son was instructed by the committee not to "discuss this matter" with any potential witnesses, these witnesses against him were not identified to him, nor was he allowed to confront or question either them or his accuser.

Thankfully, I happen to be an attorney and had the resources to provide the necessary professional assistance to my son. The charges against him were ultimately dismissed but not before he and our family had to suffer through this ordeal. I am of course relieved and most grateful for this outcome. Yet I am also keenly aware not only of how easily this all could have gone the other way—with life-altering consequences—but how all too often it does.

Across the country and with increasing frequency, innocent victims of impossible-to-substantiate charges are afforded scant rights to fundamental fairness and find themselves entrapped in a widening web of this latest surge in political correctness. Few have a lawyer for a mother, and many may not know about the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which assisted me in my research.

There are very real and horrifying instances of sexual misconduct and abuse on college campuses and elsewhere. That these offenses should be investigated and prosecuted where appropriate is not open to question. What does remain a question is how we can make the process fair for everyone.

I fear that in the current climate the goal of "women's rights," with the compliance of politically motivated government policy and the tacit complicity of college administrators, runs the risk of grounding our most cherished institutions in a veritable snake pit of injustice—not unlike the very injustices the movement itself has for so long sought to correct. Unbridled feminist orthodoxy is no more the answer than are attitudes and policies that victimize the victim.

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... Why is this an issue?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284740&forum_id=2#24044679)

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/10398274/uconn-huskies-file-response-title-ix-lawsuit

HARTFORD, Conn. -- The University of Connecticut on Monday formally responded to a federal lawsuit that claims it reacted to reports of sexual assaults on its main campus in Storrs with deliberate indifference or worse -- an allegation it denies.

The lawsuit was filed by four women in November and was amended in December to add a fifth plaintiff. It alleges discrimination based on gender and retaliation in violation of Title IX, which guarantees equal educational opportunities to students at schools that receive federal funds. It seeks unspecified monetary damages and changes in university policies.

Monday's 38-page filing goes paragraph-by-paragraph in responding to the complaint.

"The University strongly denies that it acted with deliberate indifference to any of the plaintiffs," said Richard Orr, UConn's general counsel. "That is the basic legal claim underlying each plaintiff's allegations, and the university vigorously disputes that claim."

The school acknowledges several accusations made in the lawsuit, including that it failed to notify one of the plaintiffs, Kylie Angell, when it rescinded the expulsion of her suspected attacker. But it denies that she had reported the incident at the time as a rape. It also said it doesn't have enough information to confirm or deny her highly publicized allegation that she was told by a university police officer that women have to "stop spreading their legs like peanut butter."

"There are many other allegations for which we do not yet have enough information to respond -- as is common at this very preliminary stage of a lawsuit," Orr said.

The Associated Press does not normally use the names of those involved in sexual assault cases, but Angell is among four of the plaintiffs who have gone public with their allegations.

Two allegations involve complaints against athletes. The women's attorney, Gloria Allred, has said she believes the school's athletic culture contributed to the improper handling of those cases.

None of the men involved in the complaint ever faced criminal charges. The attacks allegedly occurred between 2010 and 2013, while the women were students at the school.

The school, in its filing, denies a police officer told one plaintiff that he did not believe her when she reported being attacked by a football player. It also denies that it never asked for the name of a hockey player who allegedly raped another plaintiff.

Orr said the school is constrained by privacy laws from publicly commenting on many of the women's specific allegations, but said it will be allowed to use student records in court to do that should the case go to trial.

Allred declined to comment Monday on the school's filing.

The women also have filed a federal Title IX complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which is investigating.

The case also has prompted legislation at the state Capitol.

A group of lawmakers has said they will push for a bill that would require colleges to provide the victims of sexual assault with immediate information of their rights and options, would allow a victim to report an assault anonymously, require colleges to establish sexual response teams and partner with local sexual assault service providers.

The state in 2012 passed legislation requiring that schools implement protocols for responding to sexual assault complaints. Under that law, schools must create a plan for enforcing court-ordered protective and restraining orders, make campus disciplinary proceedings uniform and transparent, and provide students and employees with sexual assault awareness and prevention programming.

"In 2012, our focus was prevention and requiring policies at every college," said state Rep. Roberta Willis (D-Salisbury), co-chair of the legislature's Higher Education Committee. "This year the focus is about response."

Carolyn Luby

Erica Daniels

Rose Richi

Kylie Angell

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