My elementary school principal was charged with molesting a girl, and had additional charges laid against him after two women came forward saying that he'd done the same to them 10-20 years earlier. He was acquitted in the latter-day case, and the other charges were thrown out. It divided a lot of the school 'community' pretty bitterly. A couple of my former teachers testified in his defence, and a popular sentiment around the school was that the girl who accused him of wrongdoing was part of a clique of brats who concocted the story just to get him fired; a lot of people thought he got railroaded. I saw him years later working a crappy retail job; seemed like a broken man.
Similarly the band teacher at my high school was accused of having a relationship with a student, and at trial was acquitted of sexual assault.
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