It’s imperative that the police question children in a manner that doesn’t put ideas in their heads or lead them to an answer. That can be difficult to do. Otherwise, adults can and have been railroaded.
The ridiculous idea, advanced in the eighties, that children can’t lie about such things have also caused adults to be railroaded.
I want to see good, solid investigations, followed by the same type of prosecutions and then convictions. Then, get a rope.
From your lips...
A very good point.
There is a natural human tendency to allow our outrage over the nature of the crime to cause us to assume guilt.
IOW, the more angry we are the crime was committed the more likely we are to assume the accused is guilty.
This is not, of course, logical. And in this case it has not yet even been proven a crime occurred.
A good friend of mine about 20 years ago was in a vicious custody fight. The ex dropped the nuke on him, accusations of molestation of his 5 and 8 year old girls.
To this day I firmly believe he was innocent. He of course lost the custody fight. Although acquitted in a criminal trial, many people still assumed he was guilty and had beat the rap.