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In reply to the discussion: Two issues on our rape culture and one party system. [View all]Ms. Toad
(38,697 posts)Juries still struggle to convict rapists, and not guilty does not mean the allegation was false - it means that the prosecution (the state, not the woman) did not prove to the jury that the person committed the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. To prove the allegation was wrong, a convicted person would need to seek an actual innocence finding.
The accuser found liable in a civil court? That number is vanishingly small. And, civil juries are just as likely to disbelieve women in liable cases against them as they are in criminal cases?
Complaint withdrawn? Many women just give up and withdraw their claims after being bullied into it by the accuser, family, friends, media, and people asserting things like a ridiculously high rate of false reports.
I am unaware of a single forum (aside from a civil defamation suit) in which an accuser is proven to have made a false accusation.