bushkanaka86
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My sister-in-law is 16 and to date, as far as I am aware, she has made false claims of sexual assault against 6 different men, including me, twice. Ever since she was young she has been obsessed with sex and fantasizes about men doing things to her. She knows her stories are made up (she isn't delusional enough to believe them) and she knows her parents will just ignore them. But she is smart and knows her teachers are mandatory reporters so she goes to school and tells these tales to her teacher which gets it reported to the police.
Twice she has had rape kits done which revealed nothing, and every other time, the details of her story have been so ridiculous that it can't be true. The best thing for me has been that she loves to make her stories more dramatic that I haven't gotten in trouble and she always puts her stories in the past, "3 months ago..." so nobody can prove anything either way.
This most recent time, I guess the police decided to try and take it serious, just in case, but that meant that a detective came to my house to interview me and my wife. Following that we didn't hear anything for 5 weeks which caused my wife extreme anxiety. She thought every car that slowed past our house was going to come in and arrest me and she even started taking anxiety medicine for this. Finally, the detective contacted us again and asked me to take a Polygraph Examination. This further increased both our anxiety and we finally hired a lawyer, even though we couldn't afford it. He said to not take the Polygraph and based on her history of false claims, her crazy story, and the lack of evidence, this case should now close very soon.
Sorry for the long story, but now my question. She has done this to at least 6 different men and because she is a minor, she gets away with it. I would like there to be some kind of punishment for her so she will stop. What can I do, if anything?
I would try to sue her to pay our lawyer fees and as compensation for my wife's extreme anxiety but I don't know that I will get much from her. The problem is that we don't want to hurt the parents (my wife's parents). My sister-in-law has a college fund, but I don't know if I can sue for that money, and it may end up hurting her parents anyway if they pay for college. I wish I could sue for her future income....
If getting money from her isn't an option, I thought about getting a restraining order to show her we are serious. The last time, we just blew off her accusations and continued as normal. Not this time. We already plan to completely avoid her and not let her have a relationship with my children, which will be a pretty big punishment. But to show her how serious, I thought about getting a retraining order against her that legally said she wasn't allowed to be near me or my children.
Any advice?
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? I live in New Hampshire, the girl lives in Maine.
Twice she has had rape kits done which revealed nothing, and every other time, the details of her story have been so ridiculous that it can't be true. The best thing for me has been that she loves to make her stories more dramatic that I haven't gotten in trouble and she always puts her stories in the past, "3 months ago..." so nobody can prove anything either way.
This most recent time, I guess the police decided to try and take it serious, just in case, but that meant that a detective came to my house to interview me and my wife. Following that we didn't hear anything for 5 weeks which caused my wife extreme anxiety. She thought every car that slowed past our house was going to come in and arrest me and she even started taking anxiety medicine for this. Finally, the detective contacted us again and asked me to take a Polygraph Examination. This further increased both our anxiety and we finally hired a lawyer, even though we couldn't afford it. He said to not take the Polygraph and based on her history of false claims, her crazy story, and the lack of evidence, this case should now close very soon.
Sorry for the long story, but now my question. She has done this to at least 6 different men and because she is a minor, she gets away with it. I would like there to be some kind of punishment for her so she will stop. What can I do, if anything?
I would try to sue her to pay our lawyer fees and as compensation for my wife's extreme anxiety but I don't know that I will get much from her. The problem is that we don't want to hurt the parents (my wife's parents). My sister-in-law has a college fund, but I don't know if I can sue for that money, and it may end up hurting her parents anyway if they pay for college. I wish I could sue for her future income....
If getting money from her isn't an option, I thought about getting a restraining order to show her we are serious. The last time, we just blew off her accusations and continued as normal. Not this time. We already plan to completely avoid her and not let her have a relationship with my children, which will be a pretty big punishment. But to show her how serious, I thought about getting a retraining order against her that legally said she wasn't allowed to be near me or my children.
Any advice?
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? I live in New Hampshire, the girl lives in Maine.