[greghatch]

> One would think that this should be enough to put at rest any possible suspicion.

But, it wasn't. People were still suspicious - and in his working with kids it doesn't make sense to "take a risk" on an allegedly exonerated pedophile.

What should happen and what did happen as a result of his three weeks of suspicion was starkly different. Certainly we don't need to blame anything or anyone in particular to understand how awful something like false charges can be regardless of how awful they ought to be.

> Three weeks are not such a long ordeal, especially when you know from the start it's all a mistake.

He didn't know it was three weeks at the time, he didn't know if he would be able to exonerate himself or if he was being framed or whatever - it's not like he's just sleeping it off when law enforcement already got one thing wrong enough to falsely arrest.

[DanBC]

> People were still suspicious - and in his working with kids it doesn't make sense to "take a risk" on an allegedly exonerated pedophile.

England has a "Disclosure and Barring Service". People who work with children and vulnerable people will apply for a DBS. It will return information about arrests and convictions. Some people need an enhanced DBS, and that will sometimes return police intel.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-b...

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-b...

This is likely to affect his employment for some jobs until it got fixed.