[caww]

Cronos...I don’t care that the man’s life was ruined in his eyes....he can recover and will. But you thinking accusations should be kept quiet certainly attests to the catholic way of going about their business in dealing with it.

What evidence would you think should be required? Authorities already have difficulty gettin grwon woman to agree to a physical exam let alone a child’s parent agreeing to that.

Bottom line you work with kids these days you better be steller in you’re approach and the time with and where...anthing other than this and you leave yourself wide open for false accusations.

[Cronos]

caww: .I don’t care that the man’s life was ruined

you don't care? Tomorrow if you are falsely accused of some, say even child molestation (which would be false), even after being proven innocent, the stigma would still stick to you.

you wouldn't care then?

[Cronos]

Remember that I said investigate, but bear in mind the person's reputation.

if tomorrow someone said "caww robbed her company of a few thousand dollars" that would be an accusation. If proven false, you would have recourse to libel and more importantly this would be only prosecuted if there was actual evidence

Similarly if someone says "caww molested someone", there should be evidence, not hearsay. If that person says it, the police SHOULD investigate, but only prosecute if there is evidence

[Cronos]

What evidence would you think should be required? Authorities already have difficulty gettin grwon woman to agree to a physical exam let alone a child’s parent agreeing to that.

Quite frankly I don't know what would be the evidence required, but I know it cannot be just one person accusing another of something.

In the case I cited and also in others, the person's life is destroyed in public on a verbal allegation -- for anything else that would be checked by the potential for libel, but here you say "guilty until proven innocent."?

i repeat -- just as in any other legal matter, innocent until proven guilty. ONCE proven guilty then fry the scum.

[Cronos]

caww: Bottom line you work with kids these days you better be steller in you’re approach and the time with and where...anthing other than this and you leave yourself wide open for false accusations

There's no evidence that this man was anything but "stellar in his approach" -- verbal, baseless accusations can hit anyone, even the most stellar. All that is needed, as you said is a verbal statement.

as you said it is guilty until proven innocent and "The man can always pick up and move to another area and start over again of he determines that’s his best course." -- the latter of which is false, no one can start again -- the baseless accusation will stick for life and the (wo)man will be haunted by the idea that people would accuse him/her of something so horrible.

[Cronos]

caww: attests to the catholic way -- yes, it is the American way of "innocent until proven guilty" -- no trial by media.

[Cronos]

I repeat, these statements are not American, are "a person is guilty until proven innocent" if one says:

• I don’t care that the man’s life was ruined
• you work with kids these days you better be steller in you’re approach
• .anthing other than this and you leave yourself wide open for false accusations.
• the man can always pick up and move to another area and start over again
• And the accusation apparently had enough for police to go after him...which they rightly should have. the verbal accusation that was later withdrawn after the girl was shown GPS proof that the man was nowhere near....

i repeat again -- the proven child molesters -- fry 'em, but if there is just a verbal accusation with no proof, the woman's reputation and life can be utterly destroyed. investigate yes, but remember the woman's reputation and life is also innocent until proven guilty