I think the NFL was correct to let him keep playing. There has to be evidence as well as credibility to these accusers. No police report filed either.
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but putting aside the lack of police reports, do we have the answers to the following questions?
1. Who did she tell after the first incident, if anyone? Repeat for next two. What do they say she said? Is it consistent with what she says now?
2. Did he threaten her, such as threatening her job? Did she have a reasonable belief that she might lose it and/or her career if she went public? Did she feel wedded to the org and didn't want to hurt it?
3. Did he have the physical opportunity to do what she alleges he did? Were they in fact together on the dates and times alleged? What do her text messages and phone use look like at the time? His?
4. Was the first incident/second incident questionable sexual assaults that made her doubt whether they were in fact assaults and cause her not to report? Was the third the straw that broke the camel's back?
In the end, she obviously has a poor case even if they did happen, but I can't say off the bat that I don't believe her.
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It just does not add up. As you noted, there was/is no police report nor criminal case, and the timing comes conveniently on the heels of a huge contract.
And I also agree that the N.F.L. is right to let him play. You shouldn't be unable to work based on a pending accusation that has no criminal charges whatsoever.
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Link: https://www.vogue.com/article/unbelievable-netflix-true-story
Innocent men are wrongfully accused and convicted of these types of assault every year. This film you linked gives an example of a woman who had a bogus memory that told her brain that she actually was not, in fact, assaulted as she described, even though she was. The problem is that the flipside is also true: That women's memories tell them that they were assaulted by a man who it is ultimately proven did not do so.
The problem is that instead of pushing the narrative that memories can simply be wrong in general due to psychological trauma, the agenda is instead being driven that men don't deserve the presumption of innocence.
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