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Originally Posted by Damien
Yes and we probably need to revise how we handle these cases. I don't know a lot of how these things are handled but it seems to me anonymity should be given to the accused until they're convicted or if a judge deems it in the public interest.
I think historically the rate of false accusations is very low and clearly a lot of people have been getting away with sexual assault for far too long though so we also need to be careful we don't fall back into that kind of environment.
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What possible public interest could be served by revealing the name of the accused when they (I quote Osem here) "can have their entire lives turned upside down and even destroyed when there's no evidence at all."?
What possible public interest other than gossip could exist?