This is why there needs to be a law to protect against false allegations of child abuse. If you are guilty of a false, intentional allegation,, whether a DA, parent, neighbor or child advocate, you should receive whatever penalty would have been given to the would be molester. You should have your picture on the internet just as the child molester would have had to,, instead of your name being ‘child molester” it would read “liar/false accuser.” You would have to register everywhere you went, and serve time and all penalties.
these false allegations do not just hurt those accused,, it hurts the children. they are being used and they are suffering psychological abuse. They are having their parents ripped out of their lives. They are scarred forever.
Child advocates consider yelling, threatening and other forms of things like that psychological abuse but do not seem to care about the abuse inflicted on a child due to a false allegation.
And most importantly, there should be NO statute of limitations on the crime of inducing a child to believe and report abuse that didn’t actually happen.