Chance to revise a police statement

They simply realize that people may say/write things in the heat of the moment that they might later realize are inaccurate and they are offering the person the opportunity to correct the record.

For example, if you filed the statment and listed the date wrong (let's say you put Friday's date instead of Saturday). When the police question the accused they are going to ask them where they were Friday night and if the accused has an alibi then they have no case.

They also know that a percentage of sexual assault complaints are filed by people that weren't assaulted so allowing the person the chance to retract their complaint lets the filer off the hook (so to speak) if it is in fact a false complaint.

Thank you
Thank you, I was confused as to why they would give the person the opportunity and even more so that they would tell me that they gave them opputunity being that I am the mother of the one being accused. I find it sad though that a person would go to such lengths to get attention, I never realized before that people would lie about that. Having been sexually assaulted myself, many years ago, I find this girls actions repulsive. This young girl went to work one day and told everyone that my son raped her the night before, he had talked to and flirted with her and then left with his friend that he was with..she laughed and told an outragous story which everyone found hard to believe and told her so and then her co workers came to tell me and I went to the police, I did not want those kind of allegations being laid against my son ( they can do irreprable harm), and if in fact there was truth to it, then she needed to be examined for the physical proof of such a deed. When approached by the police she changed her story and said that he only assaulted her, but had no physical proof of such and has admitted to one of her friends that she said that just to get my son in trouble. I have no doubt that eventually this ordeal will end and both kids have to go for a polygraph but it makes me very angry that it occured in the first place. Sexual assault is not to be taken lightly, and it is not a joke and it makes those of us who have been the victim of such look bad...at least in my opion. Sorry to be so long winded but I am extremly upset over all of this, and I truly thank you for response.