Police Say Disney Gang Rape Claims Were False

[Mister Incredible]

Police Say Disney Gang Rape Claims Were False

POSTED: 9:05 am EST March 6, 2006
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Disney employee who accused four fellow employees of raping her, was a willing participant in the sexual encounter, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said Friday.

A videotape of the sexual encounter that took place early Sunday morning shows that Elizabeth Sunde, 19, agreed to participate in the sex acts with four men from France, Orange County Sheriff's spokesman Jim Solomons said.

"There was also no point on the videotape where the defendant tells them to stop in any way, which was contradictory to her statements," the affidavit said.

Sunde is charged with filing a false police report and making false statements, Solomons said. Deputies also found marijuana on her when she was arrested Friday, he said.

Additional charges of drug possession are pending, Solomons said.
Sunde and the four men are all employees of Disney's International Program and were living at an apartment facility that Disney uses to house members of that program.

"Based on the new information we're reviewing the employment status of the individuals involved," said Disney spokeswoman Jacquee Polak.
International employees routinely work at Walt Disney World, many as cultural representatives at the Epcot theme park. Members of the program are paid hourly and must work a minimum of 30 hours a week, according to Disney's Web site.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

Interesting. It usually takes time, but the truth almost always surfaces.

 

[cardaway]

This came out last week and the thread that started with the accusations ended with the news that she made it all up.

It was sick how many people were still going after the guys even after the news came out about how she made it up.

It's also pretty damn disturbing how often this is happening. Maybe they need to lock up one of these liars for life so it stops. They certainly damage the lives of the people they falsely accuse.

 

[vettechick99]

Wow, I was sickened when I first heard the accusations and now I'm sickened to hear it was all false. What is wrong with people??

 

[m&m's mom]

You know that almost makes me madder. That hurts all true victims when people make fake accusations.
Huge generalization coming: girls gets drunk , or whatever, agrees to this act and then sobers up, realizes there is a videotape and cries rape.
I sure hope they don't drop or lessen the charges on this one.
I am glad you posted this separately. I never went through the end of the 1st thread.

 

[kdibattista]

It's absolutely horrendous. I hope she is prosecuted fully, serves jail time and should be required to volunteer in a rape crisis center

 

[RickinNYC]

This very same situation happened on campus when I was in college many, many years ago in the late 80's. Thing was, I knew one of the accused guys and was stunned to say the least. I knew the guy was a pretty hard partier, but he would never hurt a fly. I chose to take his side until proven otherwise. Nevertheless, he and his buddies were kicked out of school without a trial or anything else. Just the word of one young woman.

Shortly afterward, that summer, I worked on campus as an orientation leader and it turns out, I was working with the woman who had made the accusations. She was a bit off, always turning on the water works, doing the "woe is me" act. I fell for it hook line and sinker. I never really thought about the fact that she advertised her plight to every single person we worked with upon first meeting.

She liked me, I quietly and nicely told her thanks but no thanks. She immediately went to our boss and told him that I had sexually harrassed her, flashed myself, etc... Side note, I worked as an orientation leader the previous two summer breaks and two winter breaks at this point. My boss knew me well, and knew that I was gay.

He kept her in the office, asked that his female assistant come in, called HR and had one of their reps in, took a statement, etc... Then he called me in on the same day, told me the scoop and I burst out laughing. I told them what had really happened, he assured me that all was fine, that he knew for various reasons I wouldn't do such a thing. He then had HR call her to tell her the REAL scoop about me (the gay thing). She immediately dropped the charges.

The situation put new light on the criminal case she was involved in, brought everything into question. She quickly dropped charges, admitted that she lied and was kicked out of school while the three young men in question were asked back. She was charged with faking a police report, false statements, etc... The girl obviously had some mental issues. Likely along the lines of Munchhausen's Syndrome or something along those lines.