Arutz 7 A woman who was employed as the housemaid of recently retired
Commander of the Jerusalem Police Maj. Gen. Yossi Pariente has admitted
that she lied about being sexually exploited by him, according to IDF Radio.
"I made it all up," the maid now reportedly says.
Pariente retired surprisingly last week, and the housemaid's
allegations appear to have been a major consideration in his decision to
cut short his career. The woman, who used to clean the Parientes' home
in Jerusalem, claimed that she had an affair with him for two years, and
that he sexually harassed her. [...]
Leading criminal lawyers have claimed that allegations of male sexual
misconduct against women are extremely hard to disprove in Israel's
court system, due to the pervasive influence of a radical women's lobby
in the Knesset and media, which insists that false allegations are very
rare.
The matter was discussed in a heated debate last month in the
Knesset's Committee for Advancement of the Status of Women, when three
female lawyers who head the Committee on False Allegations and Parental
Alienation in the Tel Aviv District of the Israel Bar Association
claimed that such allegations are a very common phenomenon.
Representatives of women's groups linked to the New Israel Fund hotly
disputed the claim and the parliamentary committee's chair, MK Aliza
Lavie, read out what she said were police statistics, according to which
there were only 12 cases of false allegations by women per year, and a
similar number by men. The representatives of the Committee on False Allegations and Parental Alienation called this number "ridiculous." [...]
Any accusation needs to start with a presumption of innocence. Any determination of potential guilt can only come with solid proof that is beyond any reasonable doubt.
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