I knew a few others, in the witch-hunt atmosphere of the 1980s, who had their lives damaged by false accusations.
Yes, it was really ugly. Hope your acquaintances fared okay.
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.