‘Believe all women’ ruins the life of another innocent man
Zachary Faria
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The liberal demand that society “believe all women” whenever they make allegations of sexual misconduct and that the lives of the men they accuse be destroyed before we even determine innocence or guilt continues to ruin lives, with no one being held accountable for it.
The latest example of this is Matt Araiza, the former San Diego State University punter who was drafted by the Buffalo Bills last year. Araiza, a record-holding punter nicknamed the “Punt God,” was named in a civil lawsuit alongside two other SDSU players shortly after being drafted. They were accused of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl.
No criminal charges were brought against Araiza. There was only the initial civil suit, and nothing else. Araiza was only indicted in the public square, as sports media hounded the Bills over the lawsuit up until the team reneged in its belief in Araiza’s innocence and released him.
True to the saying, the truth has finally put on its boots nearly a year after the lie had traveled around the world.
Yahoo Sports acquired a “200-plus page transcript of a 100-minute meeting” between the deputy district attorney and the accuser and her attorneys. Prosecutors explained that Araiza was not even at the party at the time the alleged gang rape occurred.
And it does not stop there. After interviewing 35 witnesses, including friends of the accuser, executing 10 search warrants, and discovering several “short videos of some of the alleged encounters,” the district attorney’s office says numerous witnesses claimed the accuser was telling people at the party that she was 18.
This is important because, according to deputy district attorney Trisha Amador, “in looking at the videos on the sex tape, I absolutely cannot prove any forceable sexual assault based upon what happened.” In other words, the videos the district attorney’s office discovered make it impossible to determine whether a gang rape even occurred, as opposed to consensual sex. If anything, the witness testimony of the accuser’s own words indicates that her encounters were, in fact, consensual.
This means that there is considerable evidence that no crime ever occurred and, even if it had, Matt Araiza was not even present at the house when it happened. This is what the media hounded the Bills into firing him over, and this is what ruined his reputation.
Araiza is not the first high-profile example of this, either. High school football star Brian Banks spent six years in prison and five years on parole after being falsely accused of rape. Shawn Oakman was indicted just two weeks before the draft and was found not guilty three years later thanks to text messages and scientific evidence. Hundreds of college students have fought against universities that punished them based on accusations without due process over the last several years, and won.
In all of these cases, innocent men have been left to pick up the pieces after having their lives ruined by mere accusations. Whether they spent years in prison or “only” had their livelihoods ruined, they have been smeared and had their reputations destroyed.
When does Matt Araiza receive his apology from ESPN, the Buffalo Bills, and every single journalist who rushed to treat him as a guilty man? More importantly, when do people stop declaring men guilty based on nothing more than accusations, on the asinine assumption that women never fabricate or even misremember these kinds of accusations?