Teacher cleared of molestation: ‘Nobody wins’

In this case, the teacher was female. Read the story. See how quickly such things spin out of control. And after half a million bucks to legal defense and two years under suspicion and scrutiny, finally she is found not guilty at trial, but of course will be suspect for life - just like any man in that position. Whether a man would have been exonerated under the same circumstances however is highly doubtful. Excerpt:

'Now that a jury has said “not guilty,” now that she is finally free of allegations of child abuse that have hung over her for two years, a former kindergarten teacher from Georgia can reveal that one of the three children who testified against her was her own daughter.

“My own daughter,” Tonya Craft confirmed to TODAY’s Meredith Vieira Wednesday in New York.

“The only thing she had ever said was that I had put medicine on her,” Craft added. But taken along with the testimony of two other young girls, it seemed momentous to prosecutors.
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Late Tuesday afternoon, the 37-year-old Craft had nearly collapsed in a Ringgold, Ga., courtroom as the jury that had listened to five weeks of testimony declared her not guilty on all 22 counts of molestation and abuse lodged against her two years ago when she was a kindergarten teacher at Chickamauga Elementary School.

The charges had torn the small town apart. Craft’s attorney, Demosthenes Lorandos, who joined his client on TODAY, told Vieira that he had rushed her out of the courtroom after the verdict because of death threats that had been made against her.
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“I want to make people aware that this can happen anytime, anywhere, to anyone, and just to get it right; to have qualified individuals interviewing the children,” she said. “To parents, if there is a situation that you wonder about, take them to the proper people. Just get it right for the children, because children that are a part of false allegations are just as devastated as children that truly are molested.”'