Soldato
False rape claims not particularly socially unacceptable.
I've seen it all now.
Women can and have been jailed for making false rape claims.
It's the Guardian. They ran an opinion piece on the Free Keisha situation that stated it didn't matter whether there was proof or not, the judge should have ruled in her favour. I wouldn't set too much store by them.
From the CPS statement on this:
However, the evidence in this case was strong and having considered it in light of all of our knowledge and guidance on prosecuting sexual offences and allegedly false rape claims, it is clear there was sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction for perverting the course of justice
The Guardian have (I'm intuiting reluctantly) put a note to this effect at the end of the article, though they've tucked it away as a footnote at the end and let the rest of their piece stand unaltered.
Confidentiality in rape cases should be preserved for both defendant and the plaintiff as much as possible. It thus protects whichever party is guilty either way.