i'll share 2 real life stories on this subject.
!: i knew a chap who was a clergyman--in other words a real life minister of religion ( Not a phoney JW "minister"). Someone from his past went to the police here in the UK--and accused the clergyman of sexual abuse when he was a boy. The police took the case to court--and the minister was found guilty--and went to prison. He is now out--and i bumped into him last year.
2: years back, i knew a man who was the caretaker of a building i worked in. He and his wife had fostered a number of children over the years. One disturbed child accused the man of molesting her--and the case went to court--he "pleaded" GUILTY and went to prison.
After he served his time he went back to his care taker job. NOBODY believed he was guilty. I got talking to him--and he told me he was advised by his lawyer to plead guilty to get a shorter sentence. So he did.
This has bought it home to me--ANY OF US could end up in this same mess.