Yeah, let’s not confuse “not guilty” with “not a creepy old man”. The bar for the state taking away your rights based on your activity is fairly high – as it should be – but not being able to produce sufficient evidence of acts that don’t leave a whole lot of physical evidence behind doesn’t make the accusations false.
It just makes them not enough.
And, I’m sorry to everyone out there who seem weirdly motivated to want to believe that accusers are overwhelmingly liars, but his hand-waving away of the accusations was not confidence inspiring.
Yeah, let’s not confuse “not guilty” with “not a creepy old man”. The bar for the state taking away your rights based on your activity is fairly high – as it should be – but not being able to produce sufficient evidence of acts that don’t leave a whole lot of physical evidence behind doesn’t make the accusations false.
It just makes them not enough.
And, I’m sorry to everyone out there who seem weirdly motivated to want to believe that accusers are overwhelmingly liars, but his hand-waving away of the accusations was not confidence inspiring.
Let’s not forget that multiple accusers up and fucking died while waiting for their day in court, also.
Kinda hard to provide testimony that could have been compelling for the court when a number of key witnesses don’t survive the trial.