How to destroy a career^Wlife

[pne]

A story of how a person's career was destroyed by an anonymous accusation.

Briefly, a teacher was accused of indecent exposure in public. His name was all over the papers even though he was charged but not convicted; the person or people who reported him were not named.

He ended up losing his job and not being able to work in teaching ever again, despite protesting his innocence. Eventually, he committed suicide.

It's the kind of journal entry I can imagine missysedai writing. Kind of.

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not the first...

[tonytraductor.livejournal.com]

Here in CT a teacher was accused of sexual harrassment by a student who was angry over her grades.
Even though she eventually confessed that it was all lies in court, and the man was never convicted, he lost his job and never taught again, at least in CT.

[connie]

That's really sad. :-(

just read the link...

[tonytraductor.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I want to be angry, or just cry...

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

...'cept it would end in homocide, because I'd find the accuser and kill him. Twice, for the aggravation of making me track him down.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more along the lines of "if this had happened to someone you knew", much as Nick was writing about someone *he* knew.