This. Accusations should be taken seriously. Taking them seriously means investigating them, it means not blaming or shaming the accuser, and fixing the seriou

This. Accusations should be taken seriously. Taking them seriously means investigating them, it means not blaming or shaming the accuser, and fixing the serious flaws in how our legal system manages to do the aforementioned things. The goal here is that the legal system should be a safe and effective vessel for identifying valid accusations and punishing offenders, not that the accusations should be turned by society into a verdict.