Family matters can be messy. I have a family member with an alternate reality where our parents never supported her, she had to overcome bad parents. Its a lie. I was there. She just didn’t like them asking her to be responsible. However, I totally could see everyone in her life thinking she came from such an abusive family. Im one of like 4 people on earth that know the truth.
The point is, families can be messy, especially with money involved, so we shouldn’t even try to insert ourselves.
Recovered memories are not a valid source of evidence. We should always presume the accused is innocent, that's the basis of any reliable justice system. Especially when no evidence is presented beyond extremely dubious self report.
Um no we should not presume the accused is innocent; we're not a justice system at all, we're a commentariat. Nor should we presume the accused is guilty; the information we have is precisely what we know, which leaves the question open, and it would be wrong to presume an answer either way. We should assume the accuser has a probability of being correct and not invalidate their claims based on some spurious framework designed to justify doubting them.
Especially not when there's a HUGE and incredibly well-documented pattern of "ignoring accusations of abuse against powerful people" which our society is, like, right in the middle of trying to get better about (while for some reason you are advocating for undoing all that progress?).
