Accused of a sex crime???? GUILTY!!!!!

[Plaidman]

The West Memphis Three were proven guilty in a court of law. The fact that their DNA wasn't found doesn't mean they didn't do it. Judges deemed the DNA tests inconclusive. (I'm from the area where the Three were tried. The judges around there are generally awesome.) They confessed to the murder of three kids, and now the little creeps get to sit in jail for the rest of their lives. (I wish the creeps behind the Westside shooting got the same treatment.)

Sorry. Like I said, I grew up in the area at that time and felt the very real fear that was going around. Honestly, those kids are lucky they were arrested, tried, and are in prison. I bet some fathers would love to go vigilante on them.

Yeah. The step father's dna was found. Including semen in one of the kids.
Not to mention the so called /confession/ was from a mentally disabled kid, after several several several several several hours of intergation, where he was basically forced to say he did it. Did all those hours show up in court? Nope. Just the one bit where one of them said they did it.

[guywithashovel]

Sad thing is, some people put themselves in positions where they can get accused of doing these types of things. It's not intentional, obviously, and many times people don't even realize that they are putting themselves in testy situations. For example, back when I worked as a tutor, I sometimes took the kids aside into empty classrooms to work on their class work. Another tutor who was a retired teacher pointed out that I shouldn't be doing that because it wasn't completely safe to be alone with one of the kids without some other witness in the room. Neither me or the classroom teacher ever thought of that.

Also, at work, there is a rumor that the director is dating one of the women who work in the office area. I didn't know this until recently, and heck, it may not even be true. However, she does spend quite a bit of time in his office, and she even eats lunch in there sometimes. I hate to admit it, but I've noticed these things, and it never occurred to me to put two and two together and think they may be involved with each other. Relational things just go over my head sometimes. Then again, like I said, it may not even be true.

Anyway, a co-worker who is a former police officer who worked with sexual harassment cases said that he's putting himself in a potentially testy situation by having her alone in his office with him so much. If something were to go down between them, she could easily get him in some trouble by just running out of his office crying one day and claiming something happened.

[Red Panda]

Sometimes you can't even protect yourself. The brother of a friend was accused by three 12 year olds who lived in his apaetment cmplex of molesting them. The truth is he barely even new them but they thought he was hot and just made up the story. Luckily their story completly fell apart under questioning, but what if it hadn't? How do you defend yourself from those kind of allegations Eveyone will assume you are lieing

[Bronzebow]

Anyway, a co-worker who is a former police officer who worked with sexual harassment cases said that he's putting himself in a potentially testy situation by having her alone in his office with him so much. If something were to go down between them, she could easily get him in some trouble by just running out of his office crying one day and claiming something happened.

Especially if you're a guy, all it takes is a few tears and a lie to do exactly that. Or one poorly worded statement from a kid to have parents flying off the handle about what they think you've done to their child. We've seen it happen thousands upon thousands of times before.

Heck, it's practically a crime to be a guy.

I don't help children. I've seen a child lost (I'm assuming) and crying, and I'm ashamed of it, but I didn't do anything to help. I pretended not to see anything and went on my way, because there was no one else around to act as a witness. For some reason (thanks, pedophile hysteria of '95), a grown guy next to children always brings suspicion. I've seen it happen before, and I was glad that I was there in case things went south. A friend stopped to help this lost 5 year old girl at a water park only to have her father fly in and threaten to bash his face in if he touched his daughter again.

I had another almost similar situation back in college. I was dating a girl who told me up front (we're talking before date #1) that she was not interested in premarital sex. I was cool with that, so we dated for a while, but over the course of the year she tried to initiate exactly that on more than one occasion. I stopped the actions before they went any further, thinking that this was off the table. We had a somewhat messy break up a year later. She stalked me for a good few months, trying to befriend all my friends to get to me and even finding out where I was living and showing up out of the blue at random times.

It wasn't until later that I started putting the pieces together. I was fortunate that she found another boyfriend and backed off from me for a while (though she hunted down my changed cell number just to let me know she was married....good, now go away!). But I always wondered what would have happened if I had given in to her advances. Would she have cried rape later? What possible defense would I have against that? I think I would have been eaten up by the court.

[Red Panda]

I think if you were dating a girl for a year and the sex wasn't reacent they wouldn't assume rape. I know sometimes its hard for girls, especially if they are married, to get people to believe they were raped by their man.