Another thing to be aware of is that kids these days are educated in the ways of the world at a very young age. They know how to get back at you and some will think nothing of it. Not much you can do to stop an investigation when a kid lies. The kid wins every time. What if the kid says that you really scared him when you said you would hurt him if he told anyone that you touched him in the bad way. You're fucked!
Gods only help them (and their parents) if they pulled THAT shit.
It happened to a friend of mine, similar to what Callaway was talking about. There is no fucking way he molested a child, but he could not prove it.
It's exactly like what Peter said in another thread:: once a child is involved caution goes out the window along with half the legal rights of the accused. In come the villagers with their torches, pitchforks, clubs and ropes to kill the ogre. The assumption that kids would never lie about these things is bullshit. There is no way to balance the scales of justice, though. The child holds all the trumps.
His case was only dismissed after a huge disruption to this guy's life, many thousands of dollars in legal fees, in addition to losing his apartment, fiancée, and most of his friends and after the butthead kid falsely accused two other people. Gods only know what would have happened to him if the stupid kid had not "gone back to that well" too many times. He had no recourse except to sue the parents, but after almost a year of selling everything he owned to pay his lawyers, he was unable to do anything more. He was truly fucked, all because he told some kids that he would call the cops if they did not stop breaking into a vacant apartment and making a bunch of noise.
It's just not worth the risk.