Timothy Hutton Accused of Raping 14-Year-Old Girl in 1983 (Report)

Variety ^ | March 2, 2020 | Michael Schneider

[Charles Martel]

Also, one wonders how many under aged groupies are getting laid by lying about their ages? When I was about 19 I took out a girl who turned out to be 15, but in build and (especially) in experience was well beyond most of the 19 year old girls I knew. She was certainly more experienced than I.

That stuff was so common that it became a film trope in the '70s (maybe earlier). Remember the mayor's daughter in Animal House?

[ChildOfThe60s]

My wife says that in 1972 when she went off to college, that sexual assaults on dates, not necessarily full fledged rape, was more common than we men like to believe. There was a lot of stigma attached to reporting it. She says there were guys that were very good at spotting and singling out the girls with low self esteem.

Disclaimer: She is a firm conservative and says that most women victims don’t have to be. She had a teacher in college who gave her a low grade and when she told him that it was an “A” paper he agreed and told her she could come to his office and work it out on the sofa.
She said I’ll take the C- and drop your class.

[DeplorableGirl]

I understand what you’re saying. And
yes it may have happened; I wasn’t there.
But as I said, report it immediately &
try to summon the courage to see it thru. But when society assumes the woman did something to deserve it, it just heaps more humiliation on her.
And as I said, the women who lie to
destroy a man’s life disgust me.
I am extremely suspicious of 40 year old accusations, especially when done
for political reasons.
And as I said, one evil man does not
equal all men are evil.
I don’t really know what else to say.
Thank you for your kind words.

[Osage Orange]

We can’t have guilt by accusation in this country

Politically the LEFT does this all the time...

[SunkenCiv]

Hutton denied the allegations to BuzzFeed, and in a statement to the site contended he never met Johnson, and called her story “fabricated,” with “patently false, scurrilous, and defamatory statements.” (The writers of the BuzzFeed article, Kate Aurthur and Adam B. Vary, currently work for Variety.)... Johnston’s mother, who worked as a set decorator, told BuzzFeed that at the time they considered going to the police, but feared she might be blacklisted from the film industry. She said she regrets the decision now... Johnston... initially agreed to a $135,000 settlement... an ex-boyfriend of Johnston’s reached out to Hutton’s friend (the other man whom she said assaulted her that night), offering to broker a settlement... Hutton’s... defamation counsel, Tom Clare... said he has sent BuzzFeed a legal retraction demand. He claimed that BuzzFeed, “facing serious financial struggles and pressure to attract readers, has shamefully disregarded the facts and allowed itself to be used by Ms. Johnston,” and also said the site “ignored hard evidence that Ms. Johnston lied about participating in extortion attempts and turned a blind eye to critical inconsistencies in Ms. Johnston’s story.