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Originally posted by Peaches@Oct 31 2004, 04:39 PM
They worked with the evidence they had. He was guilty according to what they had. They were doing their job. Should they have told the parents of the girl "Well, the evidence we have points to this guy and a jury found him guilty, but there might be some technology in the future that is a better test of evidence that would PROVE him innocent or guilty so we're going to let him go."?
This is why beyond a reasonable doubt is just that. Our system is supposed to be set up on the premise it's better 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully prosecuted.
What if it were your son? Would you feel differently? After he was prosecuted, would you have cut off all contact from him or said "don't worry son, I know you're innocent, that's all that matters"
Also, why did this man's children have to live without a father and caregiver for 10 years? Did this wrongful prosecution cause her to have to get a job other than being a mother or maybe even result to something else to make ends meet?
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Do you know this for a fact?
I know how these kinds of cases are prosecuted. They will do everything they can to prosecute a suspected child molester, evidence be damned.
What would you tell the kids of the man who went to jail for such a horrible crime? "We're sorry we made your dad out to be a monster and attach a stigma to him that will stick with him for the rest of his life and probably yours too". "We're sorry you had to live with 10 YEARS of people calling your dad a monster and maybe you thought he was a monster too"