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Katie_au_lait 78F
7026 posts
11/12/2017 9:09 am

It's "innocent until proven guilty"


MrsJoe 76F
17309 posts
11/12/2017 11:24 am

It is so hard to draw any kinds of conclusions on any situations these days, because the media seems to think it is their job to tell us what to think.
I hate to think about how juries might be prejudiced by the media reporting, when most of the time, the media already has people guilty and tarred and feathered.
IF these allegations are true, he should be prosecuted...... if they are false, he will never be able to live them down.


Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
11/12/2017 6:58 pm

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Owing to the Statute of Limitations, this case will never be heard in a court......There will be no prosecution or defendant... innocent until proven guilty has no meaning in this context.

As to the timing......We all know that it's extremely difficult for anyone to make such an accusation against someone with much greater power......We all know that there has been a snowball effect begun by the women who accused Cosby. Those women's courage was strengthened by the work we have done in the past several decades in exposing and healing the harm perpetrated in silence on women and children.......We all now know of the Catholic priesthood and how the Church covered for them........

To pretend at this time, when powerful men are being exposed daily, that the timing is suspicious, is colluding with the perpetrators. The timing is also affected by the work of the Investigative Journalists who worked on this article.
They have been working on it for many months. The research was time consuming because it involved vulnerable situations that, if not properly handled and researched could destroy reputations and careers. The article includes testimony from more than 39 people, whose stories are corroborated and match court records and other factual data. These women are risking a lot to tell their stories. They are ordinary women who live there and have to still go to the grocery store and face their neighbours.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
11/13/2017 11:31 am

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I did check and this is what I found...

"Unfortunately, Alabama has some of the shortest sexual abuse statutes of limitations in the United States. A civil sexual abuse case must be filed within:

In childhood sexual abuse cases, two years from the victim’s 19th birthday, or
Two years from the event in adult sexual abuse cases.
There are no exceptions to these rules for repressed memories or DNA analysis. Due to these short statutes of limitations, victims of abuse must act very quickly."

As to the mother casting doubt. This is reported only by Breitbart. Alledgedly, a Breitbart reporter asked Leigh Corfman's mother if Leigh had a phone in her bedroom at the time of the alleged abuse and she said " no, but she could be reached by the house phone" I don't know what that means, but misremembering a small detail after 40 years is understandable......Maybe the phone cord reached into her bedroom........we don't know, but her mother is 100% supporting of her daughter's allegations.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
11/13/2017 11:34 am

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Roy Moore does not "stand for Biblical Teachings".......He stands for a very narrow interpretation of cherry-picked, Biblical Teachings........