The Martian writes:
How can anyone CONDEMN someone- and ruin their life- when we can't read hearts- and know with absolute CERTAINLY if someone did something in privacy?????
Yet the flip side of this argument is that - without the ability to read hearts - you would permit even ONE child to be molested and the molester to get away with such a heinous crime. You would permit a child's life to be ruined and force them to be silenced for the sake of sparing embarrassment to one of your associates? Frankly, that's a disgusting and entirely unethical position to take. The measure of a society's ethics is in how it acts to protect the best interests of its most vulnerable members, not in protecting able-bodied persons from due process.
This is why such a serious allegation as child sexual abuse should be investigated by the proper authorities, not left in the hands of people (imperfect men) whose sole interests are in proving their Loyalty™ to an organization and ensuring that no Reproach™ comes to the organization. Remember, the real reproach is in the act of molestation and any attempts to conceal it and obstruct justice from being served, not in its being exposed.