@Andyhohmann If everything you said here is true, I’m sorry this happened to you. Even sorrier it made a news story and put you on blast in the community undeservingly. It really really sucks to fight a case that you are innocent of yet must bear all the embarrassment, cost, and inconvenience when you truly did nothing wrong.
If you haven’t been honest, I’m sure that will come at a cost one way or another. But I don’t know you and thus have no reason to question you.
Everyone else - it is totally possible and plausible to get caught up and blamed for something you did not do. That’s why there’s court.