Date: June 22, 2018
01) Star teacher cleared after tribunal finds ‘fantasist’ pupil invented tales of sex sessions dressed as a policewoman in thigh-high stockings – but his career is left in tatters
“An award-winning teacher has been cleared of sexual abuse after an employment tribunal found that a ‘fantasist’ pupil invented tales of sex session dressed as a policewoman – but his career has been left in tatters.
Maths teacher Alex Cufflin, 43, won the Guardian Secondary Teacher of the Year award in 2008. He now runs a furnishings shop in Loughborough after being sacked over claims he groped a girl, 17, dressed as a policewoman in thigh-high stockings.
In April 2016 Cufflin was cleared at Leicester Crown Court of any criminal charges. But he had already been dismissed from his job at Rawlins Academy in Loughborough after an ‘internal enquiry’.
Today a misconduct tribunal cleared him of any wrongdoing.”
How does this “fantasist” thing that seems to be growing in popularity, jive with the heavy surge from “victims groups”, demanding to be automatically believed in their accusations?
It’s already well established, that a not inconsequential portion of legal complaints are straight out lies…and an even larger portion are found to be unsubstantiated…In the latter, it may be a lie…it may be a misunderstood accident…it may be a simple misunderstanding…the accuser might be mentally ill and hallucinating things…
In these cases…the clear victim is the accused…
Amazingly…they’ve come up with a name, for people who knowingly go to the police, the press, etc…with complaints of “sexual assault”, knowing full and well that it never happened…”fantasist”…
I have no qualms about people who write fictional stories about others, who make it clear that the story is fiction…
…but when people file a complaint with the cops, or pass off their story as “true” to the press?…
…What are we to make of this?…
…Why should self professed “victims” be believed, when there remains an absence of substantiation towards their claims?
This is a practical, social issue…not something we can allow emotion to hijack.
