Yes, unfortunately mud sticks, especially in sex cases. But in this case, George was the victim of vigilante, lynch mob justice, being made a scapegoat for historical sexual offending by Catholic clergy. If you saw George running the gauntlet entering Court during his first two trials you would understand what i mean.
Hear our useless fake news here in NZ interviewing victims of abuse re what their thoughts are to the result. These victim interviewees were unanimous in their condemnation of the result, but actually had nothing to do with Georges case, but never the less were convinced he must be guilty regardless of evidence or lack of it, they just wanted to hang somebody, anybody. Just rubbish low quality radio jocks such as Heather Du Plessis Allen looking for sensationalism rather than truth.