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KEN THOMPSON did not see his son for 2½ years. Now he sees him three times a week but he really wants to see him in Australia. Andrew Thompson was three when his mother, Melinda Stratton, took him overseas from Sydney after a custody battle in 2008. More than a month after his son was found in the Netherlands, Mr Thompson is still fighting to have him brought home.

Australian Rugby League poster boy Brett Stewart is in negotiations to sell his story after spending his lifesavings on defending sexual assault allegations in court.

The mother, who was suffering from a paranoid psychiatric disorder, accused the father Ken Thompson of sexually abusing the child, a claim that was later found to be completely baseless. Thompson took the matter to the Family Court, which appointed a psychologist to assess the two parents. Despite the Court and all experts agreeing that no evidence existed of anyone ever sexually abusing the child, Thompson claims that the Family Court bent over backwards to believe the mother.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has plainly told the government to take a relook at the anti-dowry law — Section 498A of Indian Penal Code — saying it has been misused by women to lodge false or exaggerated complaints against husbands and their relatives accusing them of cruel behaviour.

A MAN’S business and reputation are tainted, a young woman’s HSC and mental health are in tatters and prosecutors have been ordered to pay more than $30,000 in legal costs for a bungled rape investigation on Sydney’s northern beaches.

People with personality disorders also appear more likely to make false statements. Lying may be justified in their eyes — possibly to bring a reconciliation. This can be quite convoluted, like the former wife who alleged child sexual abuse so that her ex-husband’s new wife would divorce him and he would return to her — or so she seemed to believe.

Jeanne Manunga had reported the texts she was sending to herself to three different police departments following her 2008 breakup. Orange County prosecutors told the Orange County Register that the defendant used a pre-paid cell phone she purchased in her former boyfriend’s sister-in-law’s name to send herself the texts.

A woman who sparked a £150,000 police investigation by ripping her clothes and giving herself a black eye, then lying about a violent sex attack, has been told she will be jailed.

If you were glued to Nine’s Hey Hey it’s Saturday (on Wednesday) and missed the program, here’s the outline. Patrick Waring, 15, was accused of rape. The rape was supposed to have taken place several times in a busy Perth park in broad daylight close to the WA police academy. He was arrested in the middle of the night while his parents were away, and locked up. He was denied bail and kept in prison for almost a year.

With the surfacing of yet another falsified rape allegation, this time by UC nursing student Kristen Lamb of Lebanon, Ohio, many are left questioning just how many rape claims are fabricated. Statistics show that such fake claims happen at an unfathomable rate.