Here’s the thing, you need evidence for justice to work. Wether you like him or not, or believe him or not, evidence that something happened is important. If anyone could be convicted or punished for simple accusations, no one would be safe. You, me, anyone could be accused even if we didn’t do anything, by anyone we may have slighted in the past.
It’s why I fall into the “Trust, but verify” school of thought on this stuff, if you feel you need help, get help. And if you tell me you did have something terrible happen to you, I’ll believe you. But if you want to punish someone, we need some type of hard evidence that something happened. This is why it’s important to teach people that if you are assaulted, the first thing you need to do is call the police, file reports, everything you can, so you can get justice.
And of course that won’t help if it was years ago, but if we want our justice system to be fair it’s how it has to be. Life sucks, people do wrong, and the good guys don’t always win. But we need to stress that if something happens, don’t tweet about it, don’t hold it inside for years, go to the police ASAP. Tell whoever you want afterwards, but go get a report first thing.