At least some news organizations are still in the game of reporting news rather than just stirring controversy.
We’ll call out a couple of them that we’re appreciative of who at least followed up the stories of Daniel Taylor’s arrest with updates when charges were dropped, and they are the Deseret News and the Cedar City News.
We’ve simply linked directly to the articles (above) rather than rewrite or summarize their follow-ups.
So the current, up-to-date headline of Daniel Taylor’s story is that all charges have been dropped against him after he was falsely accused of sexually abusing three girls living at Inegrity House, a facility, a home, he began in 2001 to help troubled teens get their lives back together. The reason the charges were dropped, as quoted from the motion to dismiss, signed by Chief Deputy Iron County Attorney Troy A. Little and filed with the court: ” … it was discovered in the follow-up investigation that several of the alleged victims and witnesses in the case lied about the underlying charges.”
Unfortunately, there are a number of other news organizations out there that haven’t followed up on the original reporting of his arrest. All you have to do is go to Google and do a search for him and see what pops up. As a result, the accusations initially raised in the charges being filed are still out there, still live, and can still be easily found, because too many news organizations don’t follow up their own stories. They don’t even write new ones that would supersede the previous ones. They don’t even “top” the old stories with fresh information. Something that can easily be done in today’s online world.
Today’s society rushes to judgement on charges like this; they discover the news that an administrator of a girls health facility has been arrested and charged with rape, and they see the always unflattering police mug shots of the man, and hear the girls’ allegations, and conclude that he must be guilty. It’s an instant gratification society led by the web. And it just hangs out there, forever.
There’s plenty more to be told beyond what these public reports have written up. There’s a lot more to this story. So please stay tuned as we spell it all out here.