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Originally Posted by spuzzum
If he feels so inclined, he should go to the police, file a complaint and let the police do their job. If evidence warrants a charge, then it can go into the public domain since it will be on record.
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Let's talk more general, what if something did happen but there wasn't evidence to pursue charges? You're now essentially telling a victim to shut up, and causing more victims because the monster doesn't have a reason to stop.
I'll never blame a victim for coming forward. You simply can't expect someone to keep quiet because they forgot to take a DNA sample of their rapist.
In this case, there's a certain bitterness in people blaming him for going public too late and others blaming him for going public at all. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't, and then you wonder why people who've experienced sexual assault sometimes don't know what to do...
It's more on "our" behaviour to the information. You can't immediately believe every accusation, we know there has been false. You can't immediately assume the person is lying, that would be absurd. It creates an impossible conundrum but we got to look at the facts after and not rush to immediate judgements of either side. Ideally.