Here's something you may find interesting about this subject matter ...
Not positive but isn't it a fact that previous legal decisions set a precedent for future legal deisions?
Here's the story which is somewhat more adverse than today's sexual accusations .. but which could possibly set a precedents within today's
legal decisions ....
The first mediatic case occurred on September 5, 1921, when comic actor Roscoe Arbuckle was accused of sexual abuse against actress Virginia Rappe. Arbuckle had organized a party in which, accordng to the accusation, he took advantage of Rappe's alcoholic state to rape her.
The aggression was so violent that Rappe died four days later. The news reached an important repercussion when journalist William Randolph Hearst wrote columns in which he directly accused Arbuckle and added details to the event, such as that Arbuckle had raped Rappe with a bottle.
Arbuckle was the defendant in three widely publicized trials for the rape of Rappe, and after the first two trials, which resulted in hung juries, Arbuckle was acquitted in the third trial and received a formal written statement of apology from the jury.
Despite Arbuckle's acquittal, the scandal was enough to end his career