It isn't enough that they insult decent people by whining for
acceptance of their sexual debauchery, now they are trying to imprison
innocent men. Another homo psycho...b&c
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By Meena Hart Duerson / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, November 15, 2012, 6:13 PM
Lesbian ''Charlie'' Rogers has said accusations that she is lying
about being a hate crime victim are akin to another attack.
Fox 42 News
Charlie Rogers has said accusations that she is lying about being a
hate crime victim are akin to another attack.
A Nebraska woman accused of faking a hate crime against herself
maintained her innocence this week in an emotional 15-minute video
posted to YouTube, hitting back at those who have branded her a liar.
In the raw and confessional-style clip posted Wednesday, Charlie
Rogers, 34, defended herself in the face of her impending trial for
allegedly falsely reporting a hate crime.
Police say she fabricated a July attack in which she said three masked
men tied her up at her home in Lincoln, set fire to her house, and
carved homophobic slurs into her body.
"That night, I thought I was going to die," Rogers said in the video.
"I didn't."
Instead, she made her way to the house of her neighbor, who called the
police.
Rogers, who is openly a lesbian, says law enforcement treated her like
a suspect early on. She also said the overwhelming public kindess she
experienced after the alleged attack evaporated once the police
accused her of faking.
"People were showing love and support; it was amazing," she said.
"It's a shame that something ... can be used against someone who is a
survivor of terrible crime."
Two months after the alleged attack, police arrested Rogers and
accused her of perpetrating an elaborate hoax.
They pointed to discrepancies between her account of events and the
evidence found at the scene, as well as a forensic pathologist who
said the wounds on her body were inconsistent with the types of
injuries caused by a struggle.
The pathologist said the cuts were "superficial, symmetrical, avoided
sensitive areas of the body, appear that they would have taken
considerable time to do and are accessible to the victim and follow
the victim's frame of reference."
Police also noted a Facebook post Rogers had written four days before
the incident in which she said "I believe way deep inside me that we
can make things better for everyone. I will be a catalyst. I will do
what it takes. I will. watch me."
The post was linked as a possible motive, since the alleged attack
came at a time when the city was embroiled in a heated debate over a
proposed "fairness ordinance" to ban discrimination on the basis of
sexuality.
Investigators also could not find any DNA besides Rogers' on a pair of
gloves that she said the attackers used, and though she said she was
cut on her bed, there was reportedly no sign of blood there.
Rogers ultimately pleaded not guilty and was released without bail.
The former University of Nebraska basketball star now believes
"evidence was lost" in the two days between the alleged attack and
when police returned to her home to conduct a second investigation and
says the fact that she can't remember exactly what happened that night
is a result of post-traumatic stress, anxiety and depression -- not
evidence that she is lying.
In sharing her story on YouTube, she said she hoped to save others
from her experience.
"I'm done being quiet," she said. "People get hurt every day. …Nobody
deserves to be treated like I have been treated."
This isn't the first time she's publicly stuck by her story since her
arrest.
Shortly after the incident occurred in July, she gave an emotional
interview to Nebraska's KETV-TV, in which she said having her story
doubted was akin to being assaulted again.
"Being a victim in a situation like this, or a survivor, and then
having your integrity questioned … it feels very victimizing again,"
she said. "It feels very saddening. It makes an already difficult
situation more difficult. Because my world has been changed forever by
these events … so the idea that that people think it's a lie is so --
it's hurtful."
Four months after she first made headlines, Rogers says she is
struggling with mental illness and sees herself almost as an activist.
Read more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/video-lesbian-accused-faking-hate-crime-proclaims-innocence-article-1.1202859#ixzz2CLSL979N