“I lean toward believing the victim”
You are their target.
Most of us have either direct or a closely related experience in which someone we knew went through what these women are describing.
I personally have taken a victim of sexual assault to the police to give a statement. I was allowed to sit through most of it because the victim requested that. When I was out of the room, they asked questions that should have never been asked, to see if they were going to take the claims seriously. But, in the end, the police believed the report and acted on it.
On the other hand, the perp was able to lie his way out of it. I did my best to help investigate and get evidence, but it was not enough.
Anyway, the goal of a smear campaign is to make the claims sound credible. A lot of effort is put into that.
But this is a lot like the frequent hoaxes we see where someone claims to be a victim of racist vandalism, theft, assault, graffiti, etc. Often the supposed victims get caught lying.
These women may also have had experiences like what they describe, but they may have been at the hands of some other man. And they just decided they would take out their hatred on a pro-life, pro-traditional marriage conservative.
I think I understood you to say yesterday, you had a similar experience. If so, did you report the crime? Did you wait for many years? Do you consider it reasonable for someone to make such allegations just a few days before the alleged perp is about to win an election?
I think I understood you to say yesterday, you had a similar experience. If so, did you report the crime? Did you wait for many years? Do you consider it reasonable for someone to make such allegations just a few days before the alleged perp is about to win an election?
Agree with you. Never told, never reported, didn’t want to get in trouble, didn’t want my parents to know and be hurt, wasn’t sure how bad it really was, etc. in college when I mentioned it, friends said it was no big deal, and the shrink there said I needed to go straight to the cops. My friends Pooh poohed that. I went with the friends.
I never spoke up until he was busted a few years ago molesting many young girls as young as Preschool age. Until I found out in the news that he was still molesting, I had hoped and prayed he had stopped way back when. He had daughters, and grand daughters. I regret I never said anything earlier, if I could have prevented other girls from being hurt. I must wear that guilt for life.
It is wrong to come out right before the election with this stuff. I agree. It is a political smear. And this last one, which I’ve now heard, is RIDICULOUS. What will girl #5 say, that Moore attacked her with knives and sold photos of her to child porn??? Each story has a careful raising of the bar to more extreme violent behavior.