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streamofthesky posted...

Just as a court has to prove the accused guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, so to would they have to prove that the false accuser lied (maliciously) to throw her in jail, so actual victims won't have a paper trail to hang themselves with anyway.

My dude, that's just not how it works.
Sexual assault and related crimes are already difficult to prove due to lack of evidence, victim's trauma, arguments around consent, etc. This is made even harder when considering many rapists are better connected and richer than their victims, they can afford better lawyers and can drag cases out.
So in the case of a legitimate crime, a rapist can get be declared not guilty because of the aforementioned reasons. The people in here who want to punish false accusers will now be enabling the criminal to then go after the victim and force them to have to defend themselves and relive their own rape in court again due to some misguided belief about justice.