151:. Michelle Jones, angry at the legal system's treatment of her son, helped to start an activist group called Mothers of Sons, intended to raise awareness of men and boys falsely accused of crimes against women. Despite the group having been created mostly by women, Mothers of Sons was accused of being an anti-feminist organization by Caitlin Roper of feminist group Collective Shout. Speaking on the matter, Roper stated that "this idea that men are disadvantaged in the legal system is not in line with reality." In response, Mothers of Sons pointed out the social harm to women created by false accusations against men, noting that false accusations are "ruining it for women who really need help."
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she's a nutbag!’". During this time, despite the couple's closeness and
Parkinson moving into Jones's house, Parkinson switched jobs and was hired on at a local police station for clerical work, where she met Constable Scott John White and began dating him behind Jones's back. Soon afterwards, Parkinson began making allegations that Jones was abusing her, and obtained an
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Michelle Jones to divorce, although they remained close friends afterwards. As a former prison guard, Daniel Jones was subject to extremely harsh treatment in prison, and contemplated
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Several months into the case, Detective Leesa
Alexander, who had initially been working to aid Parkinson against Jones, discovered various inconsistencies in Parkinson's story and shifted her investigation from Jones to Parkinson. By this point, the Jones Family had spent over $ 600,000 of their own
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Daniel Jones, an
Australian prison guard, had dated Sarah Jane Parkinson, an airline employee, since 2011. According to Ian Jones, Daniel's father, "there's nothing I look back on and think, ‘Maybe I should have probed deeper’. There were a few little things but nothing where you'd go, ‘bloody hell,
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Parkinson, his former fiancé, who had since grown bored with him while dating police officer Scott John White. Jones was arrested and jailed in 2014, while Parkinson and White lived in his house and eventually married. Owing to mounting evidence establishing Jones's innocence, Jones was released,
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and leaving only the condom wrapper on the floor. According to
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data, it was established that Jones could not have possibly committed the crimes that
Parkinson had accused him of, as he was not even physically within Parkinson's vicinity at the time of the alleged rape. Daniel Jones was released from prison after the charges against him were dropped.
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Parkinson's allegations, led to increased suspicion towards Jones and his extended family. With the help of Scott John White, Parkinson staged a crime scene by faking a head injury, undoing her pants and having intercourse with White, using a
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not to contest the AVO. It was the first bad advice we received. We acted on this advice and that turned out to be a seriously bad mistake." Daniel Jones was charged and kept on
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