(August 3, 2017 at 10:11 am)Dropship Wrote: Just to digress slightly, here in Britain scarcely a week goes by without the media reporting that a man has been arrested because adults have come forward to allege he abused them when they were kids many years ago.
Sometimes he'll admit it and rightly get jailed, but in other cases the man denies pointblank that he abused anybody, yet he's still jailed because the judge/jury chose to believe the 'victims' word over his without a shred of evidence!
That's surely not good?
There are certainly difficulties to be discussed as well. I did purposely include multiple and independent witnesses into the scenario for a reason. I think we share some of the same concerns.
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If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther