My neighbor has been charged with sexua| abuse in the 3rd degree. He was dating a young girl, who told everyone she was 17. He turned 20, while they were dating. So they break up, her aunt files charges, she is 15. Then her best friend says she was raped, but they COULDN'T file 1st degree charges, so they filed 2nd degree. I know this boy, we have lived next door to them for 15 years, and I know he wouldn't do this.
Then the second girl went to a camp and told a whole different story, to a group of people she doesn't even know. She went from a date rape scenario, to being tied up, and forced. Then spent the rest of the week chasing around with her boyfriend.
This is such a nightmare and the girls just don't seem to care how they are destroying boys lives. This is the third boy who has had this happen to him in our area. One boy was an 18 year-old junior/senior, the girl told him she was 17, and a junior, no she was 14. After the lawyers proved she lied, and had done this in the past, he got off. But the nightmare was on for him for 6 months. The second man was 21, dating a senior, but she forgot to mention she had skipped 2 years of school, and was 16. He is presently serving time after 2 years. Now my neighbor, he was working full-time, signed up for college classes, and now, he is sitting at home, and can't go to school and is looking at spending the next 5-12 years in prison. And being permanently registered as a sex offender, because a little girl choose to lie. How do I know she lied, because she told me and my son, she was 17, also.
And his poor family, are just that, poor. His dad is retired, his mom disabled. They have no money, and they have this issue, and autistic son, one in college, and they are barely hanging in there. I just can't figure out how this is fair to the young men, they are being as victimized as if they had actually done something. How sad our world has become.