I know a young man, a teenager or early 20s, in jail now because of false accusations in a nursery school. He refuses to go to a group where he would confess his sins and then be let go, because he never did it in the first place. He will probably spend 15 years there for a crime he never committed just because he won’t confess. Something is wrong here with our system.
I get what you're saying about the conditions of his incarceration: no way can he get early parole unless he "confesses."
Terrible,terrible that he got prison time over a crime for which there was probably no real evidence, except an accusation.
I had a friend who had a similiar accusation by someone who was in his mother's child-care, in her home.
He did not want to put his mother through a trial, so he pled guilty: no time, but it was on his record and his name appeared in a sex-crime registration base, for which he was run out of a neighborhood years later when he was married with children.
He was eventually able to get it expunged, after he had no further accusations, some twenty years after the original crime.
I agree: what ever happened to guilty without a shadow of a doubt?