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The other thing to consider is if the kid is indeed lying, he could ruin someone elses life. A man who is the best friend of a friend of ours (complicated huh?) was accused by a student of his of touching him.
So first off the kid recants soon after and says he was lying and was mad because the teacher gave him a bad grade (that he deserved) and he got in trouble at home for it. Many people testified that this could not have happened the way the kid said it did. One incident happened on a camping trip. This teacher and another adult slept by the door of the tent this kid was by the back wall and says this teacher was sleeping beside him and touched him through both sleeping bags. All the other kids and the other teacher testified that it was wall to wall kids in the tent (they had been planning to sleep outside, but it rained) so there was no way the teacher could have gotten off his cot and stepped over all the kids to touch him. The kid himself then said it was probably just another kid sleeping next to him rolled over and accidently touched him. The kid claimed one incident happened in the classroom after school one day. Bus driver and the kids parents testified that there was never a day that the kid did not ride the bus, also the date the kid gave was in the middle of a week when the teacher was gone to a conference a sub was in his room. Kid had first said he was sure of the date becasue it was the same day as standardized testing in that subject. Third incident he said the guy came to his house in summer and climbed in a window. First off the guy was on a mission trip that summer out of the country teaching English all summer. Second the kids room is on the second floor and there is no way to climb up to it. Also parents have an alarm system. So all the evidence pointed to this guy being innocent. Still he spent some time in jail, lost his job and can never get a job working with kids again. His wife left him. Basically a false accusation ruined his life.
Anyway, I would be sure it's true before telling anyone else. I know my youngest can lie so well, it's scary. He often lies to get attention.
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