I’m completely rehashing over the Luke/Kadie thing here but …
1. Rebecca/family etc. supporting Luke. As others have said, behind the scenes they might not be supporting as much as is presented online. I’m trying to think if I had a friend who swore blind that they hasn’t done anything wrong and it seemed to be so out of character for them, there would be an element of “innocent until proven guilty”. If it all came out that was a horrific lie then all those people could have walked away and the trust would never be built back.
2. If Kadie has made this in some way, there runs a huge risk of herself ending up in the firing line. She’s off her head but she doesn’t strike me as someone who would fabricate something as awful of this (including I imagine quite traumatic medical assessments for her child that she would be supporting through?).
3. The adult testimony really adds weight to it in my opinion. An adult knows the repercussions of such allegations and unless they had been seriously scorned to the point of lying in a court of law, I can’t see the rationale for making it up?
4. It is well known that until evidence is gathered it’s innocent until proven guilty. In England, even with such serious allegations, social services are tied with how much they can prevent a parent from accessing their child.
I’ll be quiet now.