False accusations should receive harsh punishments

If someone falsely accuses another person of a crime, like child abuse or sexual assault, then the false accuser needs to be punished harshly.

Too often, false accusers are given just slaps on the wrist — and receive nowhere near the punishment someone actually guilty of the accused crime would receive. This diminishes the harm that false accusations do to the people they are lodged against, who are often branded in the media as some of the worst criminals imaginable: “child abuser” or “rapist.”