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I think the standards for publicizing these cases needs to change. The accused is paraded in the press while the victim remains anonymous, guilty until he can prove he's innocent. Even if he can prove himself innocent, he still carries the stigma.

Here's an example: a college girl accuses 5 guys of raping her. They're immediately arrested, kicked out of the college, and best of all - plastered all over the news. They only way they got their asses out of the sling was one of the guys videotaped the whole thing, which nothing like the brutal rape she claimed it to be, but rather it was her deciding to get her freak on with 5 guys at the same time. Had it not been for the video, these guys would have been f*cked, and not in the good way. The girl's identity was never released

There was another one I read where a high school girl accused a coach of attacking her. He goes immediately to jail - do not pass Go!, do not collect $200. He's fired, the press is camped out at his out, etc. Eventually it's found out that she faked it all to get back at him for giving her a bad grade. Does she get outed as the little c*nt she is? No! But he will always have a cloud of suspicion hanging over him as a child molester.
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