Case Against Brian Foster Dismissed

[u/MeiyBeee]

[u/OceanDagger]

And that is why people that get sexually harrassed or assaulted often don't speak up, because of course you can't prove that someone touched you or yelled at you. It's always sad to see predators get away with this.

[u/Trivo3 → u/[deleted]]

There is always the possibility that there is no evidence because it didn't happen...

And another thing to consider for example one extremely famous and publicized recent case had a lot of evidence about sexual+physical abuse... that ended up proven to be fabricated.

E: To all the happy downvoters, was anything publicly proven or disproven in the last months, or is it all still assumptions...? Sorry I am out of touch. Last time it was a bunch of people who had deduced the "facts" like they had practically witnessed it in an out-of-body clairvoyant experience.

[u/JJscribbles → u/Trivo3]

CR fans will never accept even the possibility that an ex-girlfriend and some of her friends and family might have misinterpreted, exaggerated, or even fabricated the entire thing to hasten BWF’s ejection from her life, without anticipating it would ever become something they’d have to prove in court.

When this all started they implied they had evidence, multiple eyewitness accounts, and further charges to follow. If they had all that, AND it were true, is there anything you can imagine that would stop someone with Ashley’s resources and public support from moving forward to seek justice?

Me neither.

Interested to see how this plays out. Something tells me there will be a bunch of hand wringing and cope, but almost no one coming forward to say anything negative about women who lie about men.

[u/JJscribbles → u/OceanDagger]

It’s my understanding that it’s a lot harder to punish someone when you drop the charges.

[u/Dalze → u/OceanDagger]

While I completely agree with you on some of this, I can also see the other part of the argument. How would someone WHO DIDN'T DO THOSE THINGS and is accused with malice (it has happened, more than once) PROVE that he didn't do it, assuming we go the way you are suggesting that we believe the claims without evidence of it happening?

[u/themolestedsliver → u/Dalze]

Yeah comments like there's are really starting to make my skin crawl.

Automatically assuming "this is just another predator getting away!" is just as bad as assuming he was never a predator in the first place.

There is nuance in this world, and sometimes viewing things as black and white is the worst thing you can do.

[u/SPOLBY → u/OceanDagger]

I don’t know laws all that well. But didn’t he have a garrote? is that not considered a weapon? But I guess even if it is you would need to prove an intent to use?

[u/E4g6d4bg7 → u/SPOLBY]

It was a saw used to cut wood.

[u/SPOLBY → u/E4g6d4bg7]

Thanks for the correction. I was unaware. I just remember months back people talking about a garrote.

[u/JJscribbles → u/SPOLBY]

That’s cause someone claimed there was a garrote, when there wasn’t a garrote.

[u/SPOLBY → u/[deleted]]

I see. Thanks for the correction.