British girl uses Fifty Shades of Grey as basis for false rape claims against her father

The girl admitted to framing her father because he was strict and was ruining her life

In a startling revelation, a British man was acquitted of raping his daughter following the girl’s admission that she had framed him using erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey as inspiration.

The man’s attorney, Cathy McCulloch, first noticed something odd about the girl’s statements, when she used words and phrases that seemed too mature for her age. The girl, whose identity and that of her father is kept secret, described not only what her father did, but also how she felt.



McCulloch soon found out that the girl’s favourite book was British writer EL James's best-selling erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey. The barrister quickly read the book and found 17 incidents from the girl's story that appeared to have been lifted from the book.

During cross-examination the next day the girl admitted to framing her father. "She suddenly broke and said I was absolutely right. She had made the whole thing up because she was angry with her father and wanted to teach him a lesson," McCulloch said.

The accuser said her father was strict and was ‘ruining her life’ so she leveled false allegations based on "Fifty Shades of Grey" and other books.

The jury acquitted McCulloch's client of all charges. The judge, according to the barrister's account of what happened said the case was unlike anything he had seen in his entire legal career.



The girl’s father was unaware of what the novel was about, in fact, he thought the book was about a millionaire who took a young woman under his wing and taught her about art. "He had no idea what 'Fifty Shades of Grey' was about," McCulloch said.

Fifty Shades of Grey which became a blockbuster Universal Pictures movie last year, is the first in James's Fifty Shades trilogy about a sensual affair between a college senior and Christian Grey, a young and rich entrepreneur with controlling tendencies. The erotica series sold more than 100 million copies worldwide in 2014, 45 million of them in the United States. The book, originally published in 2011, was on The Washington Post's bestseller list for 50 weeks.

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