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mooreandrew58 posted...

a friend of my mom's has to live the rest of his life dealing with the impact of being falsely accused and arrested. spent 25 years of his life in prison. finally got proven innocent and was just given a small sum of money that he could maybe live off of for 2 years. (not counting buying a house and car) he was arrested when he was young so guess what doesn't really didn't have a lot of work experience or people wanting to hire him, because despite being proven innocent he still had that stigma surrounding him.

also my father and a friend of mine nearly went to prison over false accusations. so that makes 3 people I personally know that its happened to. might not be the most common thing in the world, but I wouldn't say its rare. the case with my friend it probably never got recorded to get put down in statistics as he never actually got carted off to to the police station.

if we're doing anecdotes i know a lot more than 3 people who have been raped, many more who have been sexually assaulted, and not one of them has seen their assailant convicted. if they "nearly went to prison" then there is certainly a paper trail and those numbers are part of the stats.

false convictions for any crimes are a real issue and i am not debating against that.
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