Two accusations 40 years later to boot. Now three. Does that increase credibility or lessen it?
What if I ensure those accusers vanish because I am rich and powerful? Isn't that exactly what the RC church did? Kept the accusations quiet and ensured they never went to court and vanished. Aren't we trying to avoid that?
So how would keeping this all quiet work? How are you going to gag media; just for molestation accusations, or sex crimes in general or sex crimes against people you think are upstanding citizens or sex crimes that occurred years ago.
I don't think it increases OR lessens credibility when the charges are civil