Just to paint a slightly different picture here (because I have no clue as to what may or may not have really happened back in the day...) could you imagine that? Your seventy-two years old, have had a career that put you in the public eye, a long time ago and one day you get a knock on your door.

"Hello, are you the famous 'insert name here'."

"Yes... What's this about officer?"

"Did you know a boy named 'Billy' forty three years ago?"

"Um... Really, I have no clue, that was a long time ago. I barely remember my current address and sometimes get it confused with my last one. Oh, the joys of growing older, right?"

"Well, Billy has pressed charges and claimed that you repeatedly raped him, so you better be able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you didn't. Fucking Pedo scum!"

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Could you defend yourself against a fake claim made last week, much less one from that far in the past?

Or five years ago? Where were you on May sixth, 2007? I personally have no clue.

Ten year?

Twenty?

Yeah, if he was raping a kid that might have stuck with him, but an innocent person wouldn't have a clue how to go about defending themselves at all in a case like this.