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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
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?
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like was said. maybe not every aspect, but it would have been easy for them to verify her freaking age at the time.
but hey. what she said had truthiness, that's all that counted for the media in this case.