” . . . demonstrated a lack of sensitivity to the victim.”
As suggested by the article, and the comment above, the use of the term “victim” prejudices any statement using it. Balsey-Ford was only the “victim” if her case was proven, or at the very least, substantiated by available evidence, which of course it wasn’t.
I was involved in the formulation of harassment policy for the entity I once worked for, and I absolutely insisted that in every instance in which the term “victim” was used the term “accuser” replace it. One point of the policy was to establish procedures for determining the validity of accusations of sexual harassment - if you start out by referring to the accusers as “victims”, you’ve essentially already done that.
Without evidence, a victim is merely an accuser.