Reply #15: Another thing society doesn't understand

[Occulus]

is how smart kids are, and how ridiculously easy it is for them to make false accusations- particularly when they're constantly being told to tell someone if an adult touches them inappropriately. I'm not saying it's wrong to try to stop child sexual abuse- far from it. But we do need to make a concerted effort in each and every single case to weed out false accusations and put in place legal protections for people who are accused and pending trial as well as people who are shown to be innocent or even wrongly accused when the case goes to trial. The stigma of such an accusation or conviction is a truly life-destroying event, for the exact reason you stated in your post: society apparently thinks sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated.

Pity those accused falsely of these crimes. Their productive lives are effectively quite over.