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"cwhite0714" <cwhite0714@fsi.net> wrote in message news:985b3ebb.0208242141.1790aad1@posting.google.com...
> 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.

It is a real story, that occurred several years ago in NY. I agree that the occurrence of false tales is probably much lower than
those where there has been a real offense, but for those few ocasions where innocent people's lives may be ruined, I think it
prudent to wait until the trial is over before mentioning ANY names.

T

> 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.
>