Typical. A woman gets pissed at her boyfriend. In retribution, she runs down to the local police department and asserts she has been threatened and as proof, offers her cell phone containing a threatening text from the alleged, “scary boyfriend.” The boyfriend is subsequently arrested and jailed under domestic violence laws -End of story…or is it?
In this case, Police obviously took a second look. Local Rochester woman Samantha Morrison, exacted an age-old retribution for her unspecified scorn when she filed a complaint with Rochester Police alleging that her boyfriend threatened her on February 17th. The boyfriend was subsequently arrested, jailed and served with a Domestic Violence protective order out of Dover District Court on February 18th.
But, something sparked a follow-up investigation. After taking a closer second look, Police charged Ms. “Shrew” Morrison with false report to police and falsifying physical evidence. Determined subsequently that Ms. “Shrew-Morrison” used a spoofing software program installed on her cell phone to fabricate a fake threatening text message, resulting in her boyfriend’s arrest, the faux charges have been dropped.
This case comes in the wake of Kristin Ruggiero’s most recent indictments on Witness Tampering, Falsifying Physical Evidence, Solicitation of Perjury, Perjury, and Unsworn Falsification, after being imprisoned for attempting to have her ex-husband falsely locked up.
Is this a turning point? Is law enforcement now taking a harder look at the allegations when they are made by an alleged injured party? let us certainly hope so!
One of the biggest issues I have complained about in past years is the lop-sided and overt advocacy of Law Enforcement in Domestic violence. Because of Law Enforcement advocacy it is reasonable to conclude there may be those who are falsely in jail on sham DV charges and convictions because Law Enforcement Advocacy lop-sidedly advocates for the victims’ complaint over the veracity or truthfulness of the alleged complaint. This is morally wrong and it violates the very oath Police officers take to uphold the law equally for all people. We can only hope that this case…in a separate jurisdiction, gives us some assurances that Law Enforcement is now taking this issue seriously and giving accused persons a second look versus the former where such allegations were merely dismissed as, time wasting, sour grapes or failing to take responsibility for ones bad behavior.
Now that Granite State society bears witness to two separate and distinct cases where one scorned domestic party (the woman) undertakes using the legal system as a bludgeon on the other domestic party (the man), The silence from the Domestic Violence Advocacy corners is so deafening that my ears almost ring. Not one word, excerpt or morsel to decry this abominable behavior that destructively removes freedom from another for no good reason other than [she] is pissed off. Is this not corrupt? [insert the gratuitous sound of crickets chirping here]
