The Cherly Moss rape case of November 2009 involved Moss, a 26 year old woman and a single mother of four children who reported of having been raped by a 19 year old man in Bournemouth along the St Peter’s road. She insisted that she had tried to stop the man who she identified as Devine. The investigation from the CCTV showed that the sex was consensual. She later dropped the case and was subsequently charged with making false allegations of rape and was convicted in Bournemouth court to fifteen months of imprisonment. When giving the sentence on 6 th of August, 2010, Judge Wiggs Samuel claimed that the rape allegations Moss had made were very serious and that great quantity of police resources and time had been wasted in the investigation. Additionally, the allegations were likely to psychologically affect the man accused of the rape allegations. Moss Cherly was portrayed in different pictures by the media and the society. She was presented as not only being promiscuous but having wasted state resources including $5,500 in form of taxpayers’ money and 180 hours of the police. She was perceived as having been ashamed of having sex in the alley. The media presented her as an unemployed house cleaner, a single mother struggling to raise her four children. She was perceived as promiscuous that was portrayed by her drunkenness state and her alleged engagement through phone contacts with the man accused of the rape. The media never showed coverage of the rape story, yet emphasis was given on the false allegations. The picture portrayed by the media through the age difference of Moss and the 19 year old soldier showed that she was looking for ways of earning income for her family and the general perception was that she initiated the sexual event. The tone presented during the case was that of despise and disgust. The headlines claimed she had sex with other soldiers in the alley, thus depicting a picture of a prostitute. The representation went beyond expected societal norms that a prostitute can be raped as reported. Evidently, coverage was not offered to the case allegations and her first reporting showing that the media was not in agreement with her claims. Power Influences on the Rape Case Foucault (1997) perceives power as being everywhere and hence it can be within us. [1] He further asserts that the concepts of a subject are created through power relations with the emphasis on human historical determinations which determine the acceptance of the legitimacy of power relations. The aspect of rape is perceived from different perspectives. Power is revealed in the Moss rape case from different perspectives. First, initial reporting of the case was not given media coverage, but on the conviction of Moss for false allegations, massive media coverage was received with such heated headings as “woman jailed over false rape claim,” “UK mum of 4 Moss Cherly has alleyway sex with soldier, then cries rape,” “rape lie mother is caged,” and “warning after Bournemouth woman jailed for false rape” among others. In this case, men are perceived to be in control of the sexual relations while women are perceived to be subjects thus limiting the emphasis on rape cases reported. In the rape case, Moss was said to have initiated the sexual ordeal and that the act was consensual. Although not much was said of the CCTV video recording, the report was that Moss was a willing party to the sexual event (Marhia, 2008). [2] This creates confusion on what ty