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by jerengie 3286 days ago
Although I agree with you that if it's definitely like the presumed victims say I just want to remember that often people are called out for base motives. Since I live in germany I remember the case of Kachelmann, who due to false claims of rape lost everything from his job to his freedom of a half years worth and much of his friends and family - because of a lie.

So for me this means that I wait for the judges to decide. Before he's found guilty it's nothing more than gossip to me, although this is a rather unpopular opinion I guess.

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He essentially confirmed the accusations and took an indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital yesterday (https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/23/vc-justin-caldbeck-is-taki...)
Thanks for the clarification in this case :)

Since he at least didn't deny the accusations this fosters the believes in his guilt.

For this case it's fine then. However, I tried to make a more general statement in my post before, since the zeitgeist tends to prejudgements nowadays, which also was a thing in the middle ages and does more harm than good.