Speaker to Animals wrote:BjornP wrote:How is one supposed to prove or disprove that someone groped a woman on the tits,
outside of the witness testimony of the implied parties?
Good question. Related question: If you cannot prove an allegation one way or another, why in the world would you assume guilt instead of innocence, especially given the relentless wave of false allegation stories published by the MSM?
Another related question: Since it turns out that the police already determined one of the accusers was full of shit, and it turns out she has a history of making baseless allegations against successful men for settlement money, would that not further cast doubt on the story, especially when the NYT deliberately left out this damning information to make the allegation seem more legitimate than it really is?
Ideally, justice should never give even one shit about what the media writes.
The answer to your related question is that witness testimony is considered evidence. Naturally, it's more difficult to determine the truth if there are only two people with claims of either innocense or guilt. In such a case, one needs proof that the accused has a past behavior of sexual misconduct, i.e. wether or not the accusation is
credible.
Aside from that, you'd obviously also (ought to) need witness testimonies that at least place the two people at the scene of the suspected crime.
And if she has a history of failed settlement attempts for sexual crimes, that could indeed indicate it's all just a money grab based on lies.
OR... it could be a money grab based on fact, in the sense that she may have been the victim of sexual crime by powerful people, but she did not
report or speak about it, because she believed speaking out would lessen her shot at future success in the entertainment industry.
Fame is not flattery. Respect is not agreement.