The men involved lives are ruined by the accusation alone.
And I got $5 on "recovered memories."
The first inkling that there was anything going on in the community was "during the child's therapy." Enthusiastic (and often incompetent) therapists, social workers, and investigating interviewers are the source of most false accusations of child abuse.
Particularly when the stories start getting more and more bizarre.
And involve words like "animal torture" and "cults".
Like the
McMartin Preschool.