Early in my teaching career, a male teacher was accused of molesting a female student. She eventually told the police that she made it up, but we all found this deeply disturbing. He had a family, and it could have ruined him.Charles L. Cotton wrote:This is unfortunately very true. In my view, making false allegations of acts that legally constitute "family violence" or sexual assault should be a first degree felony with minimum mandatory prison time of five years. Far too many people (primarily women) use false allegations as a tool or tactic and very few face prosecution.gigag04 wrote:Also, getting further off topic, I have taken plenty of calls where the woman gets mad and calls the cops and says "he put his hands on me." Truth is he did nothing of the sort. Some subcultures just use the police presence available at the press of 3 buttons as another arrow in the quiver during an argument.
No, it hasn't happened to me, but I learn of such cases from my colleagues who practice in the criminal court systems.
Chas.
It also casts doubt in people's minds when a person is truly reaching out for someone to help them out of an abusive situation.