[OldDeckHand]

"I concur with the fact that the man may not have been arrested; however, being called a pedophile could be slander or libel—could it not?"

Was it said publicly? No, they were in the man's own home. If the FBI had taken to the airwaves, or spoken to a reporter (like in the Richard Jewell case) and said that this man was a "pedophile" without qualifying as an alleged pedophile, then perhaps there's a defamation case to be made.

[for-q-clinton]

So the police can tell my family I’m a pedophile even without any proof?

Wow...I had no idea my family weren’t considered part of the public.

So if the mans wife leaves him over this and files for divorce and uses the police’s claim that her husband is a pedophile—it still isn’t libel/slander?