That, coupled with courts that are content to ignore or minimize relevant contextual narratives about the dynamics between the complainant and the accused at the time the allegations are made (ie: custody battles, family disputes, parenting styles, volatile relationships, etc.), creates difficult hurdles for the innocent accused to overcome false claims against them. ![]() ![]() This strategy can be difficult to achieve success with, given the leeway courts give to complainants who don’t recall alleged incidents coherently or in a linear timeline, and sometimes claim to not have had a memory of alleged incidents until some years later - ‘recovered’ memory. ![]() When someone is falsely accused of sexually abusing someone years or decades ago, probing the quality and reliability of the accuser’s memory often becomes the only and best defence strategy.
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