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In reply to the discussion: Former girlfriend of Woody Allen, who was a teen when dating Allen, defends him re: allegations [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)one accusing the other of child molestation, the courts deciding the child was not abused, after which everyone went on with their lives. We, none of us, was there, so no one can say whether this happened or not. It's always fascinating to see people be so certain they know what happened to people they do not know, in places they never were. Like the Duke Lacrosse case.
I remember getting involved in discussions about that. I remember TRYING to point out that there was ACTUAL EVIDENCE the woman was lying. I remember being called all kinds of names for just POINTING OUT FACTS. They did not WANT facts, they wanted 'justice'.
I was told that 'women don't lie about these things' during this discussions. No one ever apologized to me afterwards, lol!
Children do lie about these things IF they are 'led' to believe they happened. Some lie for a reason, like the girl who told her parents she had not come on time because she was raped. A man went to jail for 20 years because of that. Now a woman, her conscience began to bother her, and she went to the authorities, risking jail herself, to confess that it was all a lie because she was afraid of getting into trouble with her parents.
In the Farrow case, the judicial did not find that the child had been molested. But for some, nothing will ever convince them otherwise.
Anyhow, believe what you want and others will make up their own minds. As for me, I am a 'show me the evidence' person, and in this case, there appears to have been none.