You’re focusing on the “allegation”. I highlighted Dr. Mohler’s comment concerning, “suspicion”.
Ask any retired law enforcement officer who served over 25 yrs. ago (including my family) and they’ll tell you that a “suspicion” of a crime didn’t mean didley, as it should.
If my child fell and pumped and bruised his head while in the yard, should I be reported because some teacher notices the bruise? No.
No but if someone caught you red handed bashing your kid then ya...someone caught the guy flat out in the shower
Well, why don’t we let the teacher “guess” that Johnny just fell and not that he had his head slammed against a wall.
A massive bruise on the head to warrant notice is a strong suspician. Most LEA investigate “suspicians” of lots of crimes..that doesn’t mean after they ‘investigate” and find no evidence that they charge anyone.
Besides, its usually not just one report that causes a problem for the perpetrator...its the accumulation of reports.
25 years ago we did not deal with possible child abuse the way we do now.. And even 15 years ago, we didn’t have the anonnymous child abuse Hotlines where one of those “janitors at PSU” could have called in his “suspicians” about what they saw.