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Nadine@jps.net (Nadine) wrote in message news:<3d67c827.4843843@news.cwnet.com>...
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 04:15:22 -0400, Sylvia Kaplan <skaplan@nospam.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> What a beast.
> A woman has no motivation to make up such a story.

The situation doesn't seem so simple to me.

If Tony's report is correct (and I believe it could be), at least one
woman and her boyfriend have been hopping around the country accusing
a doctor of molesting her. Looking for money is certainly a motivation
to bear false witness.

While I would guess that the scam Tony reported is a much rarer
occurrence than legitimate complaints by women, it still seems unfair
that even one honest person's reputation and future business would be
ruined by media coverage of his or her name in the context of a
sensational accusation that eventually proved false. It's true that
the media is liberal in reporting things that sell, and a story about
a dentist being exonerated is not likely to sell as well as the
scandalous story of his possibly being guilty.

And yet, you are right about the publicizing of the accused's name
being an encouragement for other victims to come forward. You are also
right that what we have read doesn't add up. As the article was
written, it looks very much as though the dentist is either guilty or
negligent with his records, possibly both. But we do not have the
whole story. We have what the newspaper reported that will sell copy.
None of us would want to be tried on that unreliable "evidence."

I am not a dental professional; I am a patient. I am also a survivor
of childhood sexual abuse. But I cannot immediately condemn this man
as a molester.

I find these situations too difficult and complex to judge without far
more information than we have here.


> .. missing info from files, the dentists story keeps
> changing... does not add up.  
> Pretty sad that here on smd, there is oblique support 
> for the suspected abuser of female patients.  
> WHy is that?