Originally posted by Pei
That noise you just heard was the Founding Fathers rolling in their graves.
They needed stirring up, they've been a little quiet for the last couple of hundred years or so.
Well it happened here recently. A lot of teacher's lives were wrecked beyond repair before it turned out that the 'victims' were lying.
A good point. The system presupposes when someone brings criminal charges against another, that the "victim" is telling the truth. Our justice system isnt perfect, it still relies on us. I merely pointed out that (at least recently), the imperfectons tend to swing more in the favor of the criminal than the victim. Which might explain why there is a trend amongst the public to presuppose guilt instead of innocence.
In a case where the supposed victim is lying, then they need to turn around and file charges against that one, and the person previously accused of false crimes has every right to sue in civil court for whatever damage has been done to their lives and/or livelihood.
