Actually they’re imperfect human beings that worked together heroically to bring a celebrity machine to court. They may have acted inappropriately, as did he (and he likely did not act alone) , but that flaw allowed them to get through the wall of bureaucracy and tell their stories before the court. This lead to a “peace bond” which is a binding promise to control his behavior. It also created an opportunity for twenty more women to step forward and make their accusations. This brings him one step closer to prosecution and does appear on his record.

The victims should be forgiven for having a multi-layered legal strategy, because of the giant legal teams and endless delays of the suspect. Remember Cosby was accused in 2005 for a crime he committed in 2004, and now in 2018, 13 years later he is finally being sentanced. This is just for one assault of 60 reported!

The double standard, weak sentences, and extremely long wait times are back-firing for the media. Any sentence, however light, signifies massive guilt, and the long wait times for trials mean that in the intermediary period they cannot work in the spotlight because of the mass disgust they illicit in the audience. The double standard as well back fires because they will judged by an enlightened crowd far more harshly than someone who may get 30 years by the justice system (really the class system) for committing the same crimes but never had hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank. The feelings of the people will not be stepped on by the bourgeois courts forever!