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[Miguelito Loveless]

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trusted position, rank within an organization make people very uncertain of how to react, or whether they heard something correctly or not. Predators are very good at grooming victims, slowly encroaching on boundaries, until they compromise the victim, making them feel complicit. Gaslighting is very common. Police and DAs either view a victim as a troublemaker who is lying, or someone complicit who then got cold feet. Occasionally, we are a means to an end, a tool to advance their reputation.

In my case the predator (well respected local business man) got caught when someone stole his car, and the police who recovered it found a photo album full of naked boys. The DAs method of getting cooperation to build his case was to approach the mothers (he specialized in fatherless boys) and show them the pictures under the pretext that the son was being investigated and would be subject to arrest and prosecution for sexual deviancy. However, if the boy “cooperated” in helping prosecute, they would forgo charges. The DA saw the case as great for his career, and the victims were stepping stones to a well publicized take down of a prominent citizens.

I loath district attorneys. Prosecutors are generally people with aspirations to higher office, and they abuse their discretion to pad their win/loss ratio. While I would never say false allegations don’t occur, when you get a lot of victims with the same story, the same pattern of abuse, the same “MO”, the likelihood of a false accusation approaches zero.