feel sorry for this man,
Brian Banks.
He had his entire life ahead of him coming out of school. He was proposed to be one of the best football players America had ever seen.
Until a cheerleader accused him of rape and he was sent to jail.
He spent 5 years in jail, and then 5 years on a strict probation, until 2012, 10 years after she accused him of it, she came out and said she lied about it and he had done no wrong.
10 years of his life were just ruined by some woman who, for some reason, decided to make such a horrible accusation against a great human being.
And at first they weren’t going to punish the woman, but now she rightly has to pay some 2 million dollars for all the pain, suffering and loss of life she caused this poor man.
Sometimes you have to believe that not everything the women are claiming is true, while it is extremely hard to try and doubt a girl/woman who is coming out and saying she was raped, harassed, Etc. you have to do it or you end up with more people like Brian. No one deserves to be wrongfully imprisoned. No one.
Ok so I did about an hour and a half of research and this is what I have come up with.
The woman sent Brian a friend request on Facebook in 2011, while he was still on his probation. She described herself as feeling guilty that she had caused him to lose his chances of going to college and playing football. and she wanted to make amends.
She told Banks and his private investigator in a taped interview that he did not rape her.
But she refused to say this to the prosecution so she didn't have to give back the 1.5 million dollars she got in a lawsuit against the school where it had supposedly happened. But the court still let Banks go in a hearing that lasted less then a minute he was considered a free man and had his criminal record wiped clean.
The prosecutors decided to not press charges against her because they believed that "it would be a hard case to prove".
But all is not bad, Banks did play for the Atlanta Falcons and now actually works for the NFL operations center. So he is working for something that he loved.
