1st January 2023
OPEN LETTER TO THE RT. HON LORD CHANCELLOR AND SECRETARY OF STATE FOR JUSTICE, DOMINIC RAAB
The US for-profit company Soteria Solutions has been instrumental in facilitating exponentially inflated allegations of sexual assault in that country over the last ten years, since the unregulated Title IX 'Dear Colleague' letter regarding a supposed 'campus rape epidemic'.
Following the UK government's recent rape review, the Crown Prosecution Service have announced that they will be working with Soteria Solutions in pursuing more cases that are likely to be successful.
Soteria Solutions was founded by Sharyn Potter and Jane Stapleton, two feminist academics who received funding from the US Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women for “Know Your Power” and “Bring in the Bystander” training which, per all their research papers and statements, would appear to be extremely biased in favour of the notion that only women are victims of male sexual assault. Their funding has been largely politically backed.
We would like there to be a transparent inquiry into Operation Soteria and clarification as to Soteria Solutions activities, contracts and network in the UK.
The US Department of Justice ceased funding “Start By Believing” investigations last year, precisely because they undermine due process. However, we do not believe that Soteria have, and we do not believe that Soteria have ever corrected any statistics which have been provably wrong. The journalist and documentary maker Claire Best has thoroughly evidenced the links in the US between political funding, the media and profoundly spurious sexual assault convictions with deep links to Soteria Solutions.
At the height of the MeToo movement in 2018, the then Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders was discontinued in her post after one term due to disclosure failings, her seemingly ideological strategy widely criticised by journalists such as Julia Hartley-Brewer and Alison Pearson. There is a real risk of unscrupulous law firms profiteering from false or spurious allegations in an even more incentivised fashion than at the time of the Saunders/MeToo excesses if the Operation Soteria plan goes ahead.
It is essential that the judiciary operate independently of political motives for funding of charities or elections under the cover of social justice. It is imperative that the UK audit the background, financial and political motives behind Soteria. Prosecuting sex offences should not be tied to a desire to increase successes but a necessity to seek justice (be it a conviction or an acquittal or the prosecution of a false accuser).
It is a commonly known truism that the UK follows the US in socio-cultural fashions such as Occupy, MeToo, Black Lives Matter and other activist-driven movements. Operation Soteria, clearly directly linked to these supposed successes, seeks to replicate what has been proven to be essentially legal corruption in the British courts, under the increasingly tenuous umbrella of 'equality'. Despite there no doubt being vast profits to be made, the price will be paid by increased social division between the sexes, and many more miscarriages of justice than the unacceptable amount of which there already are.
Seven years after the Brexit vote, the UK government is at risk of transferring legal sovereignty from the European Court to the hyper-monetised American system, and the observant will be well aware how media continues to be bought in order to cheer on these moves - as if thousands more falsely or spuriously convicted men is some sort of sign of social progress.
For the above reasons, we the undersigned assert our position that the UK should cease Operation Soteria until a thorough investigation and audit has been carried out, exposing any and all financial rewards, kick-backs, political endorsements and budgeting that would deprive a citizen of their human right to the assumption of innocence and due process.
Sincerely
Claire Best
Sandra Brown
Elaine Turner Buckle
Jaqueline Cassidy
Adam Cornfoot
Lyn Crabtree
Daniel Cresswell
Nicola Cresswell
Lorraine Donaldson
Samantha Dudley
Sharon Exeley
Gina Falconer
Nicolas Feasey
Yvonne Powell Fletcher
Varin Gill
Dr Patrick Graham
Paul Green (Falsely Accused Day)
Ms Sheila Harmon
Dot Lacey
Poppa Madison
Elizzabetta Mazza
Dr Michael Naughton (Empowering the Innocent)
Mike Naughton (Lewis Legal)
Cherrie Nichol
Anne Marie Osbourne
Sean Bw Parker (False Allegations Watch)
Kursat Christoff Pekgoz MA
Pauline Savage
Sue Stephens (PPMI)
Felicity Stryjak
Jennifer Thetford-Kay
Emma Wells MSc (Me Too Falsely Accused)
Jo Wheeler (Fighting For The Falsely Accused)
Elizabeth Yeld
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