I no this isn’t real life but I saw an episode where a kid blamed some one totally different from the person that molested them because they were to scared to name the molester.
The church should of called the police in to investigate as soon as there was a allegation and not say word one whether it happened or did not happen
Yeah, Law & Order probably did something along this line, but the McMartin case was real. This false accusation thing exploded in the 1980s and early 1990s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria