This was such an awful case, and several men had their lives ruined over what was clearly from the beginning a false accusation. Remember, these men were kicked out of school over this incident. I believe the fraternity was shut down as well. The did sue Duke University and they did receive a settlement, but somehow, whatever it was, it does not seem like enough. There needs to be consequences for leveling false accusations, and for promoting those false accusations to destroy men's lives.
The most irksome part of this though is the fact that we learned nothing from this case. There have been 1000 similar cases since then. Believe all women is a rallying cry to cancel the constitutional rights of those accused. Just look at the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. Christine Blasey Ford was allowed to accuse Kavanaugh of sexual assault in public despite not having told anyone about her assault for 30 years, not remember the time or place of the incident, not remembering other key facts like how she got home that night, and then claiming another man was involved which he also denied. Not remember the time and place makes it impossible for the defendant to provide an alibi. The same thing happened in the E Jean Carroll case against Trump. She, too, could not remember the time of the timeframe of the incident. She could provide no witnesses or other corroborating evidence. It was her word against Trump, and some of words were proven false and others were incredible. It is unimaginable that a woman from 30 years ago can pop up into a man's life and accuse him of rape without any evidence and that man would be found liable.
So while we all posture about the Duke case, there are Duke cases taking place everywhere, all the time, and the same people jump to the same conclusions every time not learning anything from all proven false accusations.
