Woman charged with filing 28 false child abuse reports

[SVPete]

Woman charged with filing 28 false child abuse reports
Posted: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 12:30 pm
jcfloridan.com
By Angie Cook

A Holmes County woman is facing felony charges after allegedly making dozens of false child abuse claims, according to the Bonifay Police Department.

BPD began investigating in October, after “numerous unfounded reports” of child abuse and/or neglect were filed with the Florida Abuse Registry, alleging abuse in two separate households. The criminal investigation was requested by the local Florida Department of Children and Families Child Protective Investigative Unit.
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Combee was subsequently arrested and charged with 28 counts of “False Report(s) of Child Abuse,” a third-degree felony. She was taken to the Holmes County Jail, where she was held on a $28,000 bond.

In law enforcement’s interview of Combee, she reportedly said her motive for filing the reports was, “to create havoc.”

“This is just one example of how people use the ‘system’ to carry out their agenda against whomever they felt has done them wrong,” Bonifay Police Chief Chris Wells said in the release.

This shows how susceptible the child abuse reporting system is to annoymorous false reports. It was only this female's lack of self-control that led to DCF having the reports investigated a probably false.

Had this female had a modicum of self-control and patience, she would have succeeded in devastating the families she hated.

Had this female been more self-controlled, would DCF have continued to monitor/harass the two families even after annoymorous abuse had been proven unfounded?

Are these two families listed in a State of FL DB as "reported" or "possible" abusers? Don't answer, "Of course not!" hastily. The State of CA had to be sued, with a court verdict (i.e. the State of CA had to be compelled by court order to do what should have been done when the DB was created!), into creating a way for people falsely reported a sex abusers to be removed from the state's DB of abusers!

[obumazombie]

False accusers are just as bad or worse than those justly accused of the same crime.

[SVPete]

False accusers are just as bad or worse than those justly accused of the same crime.

In the [Sarcasm] cruel and nasty [/Sarcasm] Law of Moses the penalty for false accusations and perjury (in court) was whatever would have been done with the falsely accused. Speaking seriously, I think that entirely just.

Until US states make the punishment for perjury and false police reports proportional to the crime that is the subject of each false report or perjury, false reports and perjury will increase and abound.

[Ptarmigan]

False accusers are just as bad or worse than those justly accused of the same crime.

Agreed. I wonder how many of these cases are false reports.

[SVPete]

Agreed. I wonder how many of these cases are false reports.

I've seen reports to the effect that the "Unfounded" rate in the US for child abuse and neglect is in the 65%-75% range. That's a hell of a lot of innocent families getting entangled to some degree with agencies that often are very biased against parents.