The hoax of Shawna Forde's rape that didn't happen
From Heraldnet.com
Police found evidence that made them skeptical as soon as they began investigating an Everett border-watch activist’s claim that she’d been beaten and raped by strangers on Dec. 29, documents show.
Summoned by a halting 911 call, officers found Shawna Forde curled up on the kitchen floor of her ex-husband’s north Everett home. She was partially nude. The blue sweatpants she’d been wearing were wadded up and tossed atop the number 13, which somebody had scrawled on the floor with felt-tipped marker, according to police reports.
Officers immediately noted details that didn’t fit Forde’s claim of a violent attack.
Neighbors living downstairs in the duplex hadn’t heard a struggle.
The rest of the home was neat and orderly.
Forde’s purse sat undisturbed on a table near the door, her wallet, cell phone and car keys inside.
When they tried to question Forde, 41, she appeared so groggy that one officer wrote that she may have been on drugs. Her eyelids fluttered as she seemed to slip in and out of consciousness.
But as she was wheeled out the door on a stretcher, Forde told crews to stop so she could grab her purse.
“I thought that it would require that she be fairly alert to grab hold of the purse as she passed quickly through the entry way,” officer Brandon Gill wrote.
Another officer noticed the superficial cuts on Forde’s forearms and thighs — wounds she would later tell detectives came from the knife used by her attackers.
The shallow cuts were consistent with “hesitation wounds,” often seen when people deliberately hurt themselves, the officer wrote. Moreover, they already were scabbed over, and appeared to be at least a day old, according to police reports…….
Detectives were trying to question Forde to see whether she knew more about who shot and nearly killed her husband in a Dec. 22 ambush attack. The couple were divorcing, and she was unemployed and debt-ridden.
Within hours of reporting the rape to police, Forde called The Herald to ask if a story was planned on her attack. The newspaper was asked by detectives to wait before writing a story, giving them time to sort out what was going on.
When Forde was told that a story would not be coming immediately, she decided to publish on her group’s Web site intimate details about her rape report, including photographs of what she said were her injuries and part of a medical report.
Forde did this before giving police a formal interview about the attack, something rape victims are normally asked to do. The detectives assigned to investigate wrote that she didn’t return phone calls and failed to keep appointments.
She didn’t meet with a police artist to help with a sketch until Jan. 7. Her interview with detectives didn’t occur until Jan. 13……..
Records show the detective’s rape investigation was closed for lack of evidence; he stopped on Jan. 23. One of the detective’s last entries noted that Forde had attempted to qualify for state aid after the attack, but was denied after officials reviewed her medical records.
Let’s not forget the Minutemen organizations who stood behind one of their own while she perpetrated this hoax on the American public to gain sympathy and public welfare benefits. Jim Gilchrist of The Minuteman Project, Chris Simcox of Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, Ken Dreger of BPAux (The BP wannabes), Willy Gheen of ALIPAC, whose mood changes depending on which way his farts blow and others!
Immigration Clearinghouse is right on the mark once again!
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