It will be additional hurt. People not believing you or understanding the depth of your pain and suffering from reputation attacks.

You may be traumatized and not even know it. You may get stuck in it and resort to dysfunctional attempts to cope.

Here’s what you might experience and the good news (yes, there is some).

Understanding the necessity and value of ethical mitigation willingness and practice goes a long ways towards determining: how people perceive us, the level of trust we are granted, what our reputation becomes and subsequently, the health of our personal and professional relationships.

False accusations of sexual crimes do happen. It's a dirty secret. Anger and revenge are often two drivers to badly harm an unsuspecting person and do great damage on multiple fronts. That's the intent. Rarely do people overcome the punishments. Sometimes, they sort of do.

You may legally beat repeated claims of wrongdoing, you may still have severe reputation problems with the court of public opinion and critics. The byproduct can be painful “opportunity loss” in your career.