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Originally Posted by troutman
The part that was false was her being underage? Couldn't the rest of it be true?
How can the media verify he said/she said claims?
These are difficult questions, and an important discussion to be having.
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The problem as well becomes if you place an exceedingly high burden of proof on someone making an accusation, do you not run the inadvertent risk of silencing victims of sexual assault from being able to speak out. Now obviously there shouldn't be anyone lying to the media in order to promote a story, but how can the media be possibly expected to verify every aspect of a story like this?