#in other words if you understand you don't have to call bundy an alleged serial killer then you don't have to call peck an alleged offender | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

a9saga · 8 months ago

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The word 'alleged' is so necessary that people tend to overuse it sometimes. What has not been proven in a court of law is alleged. The reason you have to throw that word in there, when repeating accusations made by a 3rd party, is that the subject of the allegations can sue you if you put that out there as fact and it provably didn't happen. People who have been convicted in a court of law are not able to sue you for talking about what they've been charged with. Brian Peck's abuse of Drake Bell is not alleged. You don't have to call the guy an alleged child predator. He plead no contest to doing those things to Bell over 20 years ago. There's not a question of who or what or if. If you wanna make a post about Quiet on Set, you don't have to use the word 'alleged'.

#in other words if you understand you don't have to call bundy an alleged serial killer then you don't have to call peck an alleged offender #for the same reasons #this post is not criticizing quiet on set bc i don't recall them misunderstanding allegations vs charges #but if you're writing about it... you don't have to call it alleged! there is no doubt that it happened!#nothing in 20 years has overturned those charges!#i am not making this post as a defense of anything bell has plead guilty to #nor am i disagreeing with *allegations* made about him necessarily because idfk #but the court documents have been unsealed and there is no question of if peck did that and to whom #thats admittedly really fucking awful #dont reblog bc i don't mean for this to get big please #cw #sa #child abuse tw #shut up kaily

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