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Originally Posted by TheSutterDynasty
How would you do that?
To prove it would assume that the outcome of each case is 100% correct, which is untrue. Otherwise you have false positives and false negatives.
You'd also need to know the truth in cases that were settled.
There's also the fact that a large portion of rape/sexual assault victims don't report their crime.
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I think this actually potentially works against the idea that professional athletes are frequently victims of false accusations. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that more often than not celebrity status has more likely worked as a preventative from making accusations.
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It's happened before where a celebrity was accused of something that they maybe didn't commit.. and the end result was a settlement.
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Has it, though? If it has, I am not aware of it. Can you provide any examples of such instances? If it has happened, how often? I can admit that I have a tendency to side with the victims in these sorts of reports, but is that terribly surprising? In a contest between a rich, man and an underage girl the man is the one who holds all the power.
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Just saying we shouldn't judge a hockey player on something we don't know much about. We should judge him for his hockey playing abilities.
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I disagree. Yes, there is often room to give people the benefit of doubt, but I am not convinced this is one of those instances. And no, I absolutely disagree that we should only judge hockey players on their hockey playing abilities. We make character judgments about people all the time that extend well beyond their occupations—why should hockey players be any different?
Ribiero has a troubling history of allegations that continue to follow him around from one place to another. This looks suspicious to me, and casts enough doubt on his character for me to want no part of him on my favourite team.