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Originally Posted by OptimalTates
What conclusion? All this stems from someone claiming that the allegations of an alleged victim were proven to be false. They weren't. Full stop.
For allegations to be proven to be false there would need to be something like Spacey being in a different city at the time or something to that effect. A predator being found not guilty, having charges dropped or in a lot of cases never charged at all doesn't mean the victim was lying (nor does it mean the alleged was guilty).
Part of the reason the MeToo movement exists and the message it was trying to get across was to stop exactly what happened here. Victims don't speak up because they don't feel like they will be believed, will have their characters attacked if the person isn't convicted, blamed for putting themselves in the situation, accused of exaggerating the impact for ulterior motives, etc.
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Except that he did speak up. What happened isn't really at issue either. Everyone believes that. At issue here is the impact on the victim. The reason the crown dropped the charges is that it's pretty clear the main piece of evidence was tampered with..... Supposedly by his mother, which doesn't make a lot of sense, and the victim can't provide any evidence, not because he's afraid to, but because he pled the fifth after being questioned about tampering with evidence.