Victims should have those that attacked them held accountable, but I feel it’s a bit ridiculous to convict someone of something they did almost forty years ago.
I heard on the radio the other day that a woman came forward within the past few weeks and accused some rock star (I forget who) of assaulting her in the 70s when she was 17. She said she went with the band back to their hotel and on the way she said the dude “pushed her into a phone booth, started kissing her and feeling her up while other bandmates watched and laughed.” People need to use some sense here, if you’re a cute 17 year old, you agree to hang out with a rock band, and agree to go back to their hotel to " party", what do you think is going to happen? Do you think they’re going to make you some popcorn and put on a movie? Of course not, the band members are probably drunk and/or on drugs to begin with and they’ve come to expect sex from women that want to hang out with them.
Yes, it really sucks that nothing happened to the accused when it happened, but to bring it up literally decades later with zero proof other than her account is a bit ridiculous. Holding on to that pain for decades only serves to make you feel weaker and for the attacker to have more power over you. Sexual assault shouldn’t define your entire life. I feel it’s akin to being held at gunpoint and then decades later saying “they robbed me, held a gun to my head and beat the shit out of me! It gave me PTSD for decades and ruined my life!”.
If there are multiple people accusing one person (like in the case of Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein) then their case holds weight and the accused should be held accountable for the multiple people that they harmed.
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