In real-world situations this practice leaves alleged victims in potentially vulnerable situations.
Until two months ago the Birmingham MP Khalid Mahmood sat firmly in the leave camp, but then left decrying alleged racist ideologies and scaremongering.
Speaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire, the last British citizen to leave Guantanamo Bay alleged his interrogators had said: "If you don't start talking, we will rape your daughter and you will hear her crying 'daddy, daddy'".
Empson's departure left some fans alleging that viewers had been racist.
She had left her husband, alleging violent behavior, shortly before her conversion; afterwards, owing to her involvement with Raëlism, he gained sole custody of their youngest child.
One fellow, it was alleged, left a message on a female colleague's home answering machine with heavy breathing, panting and slurping sounds.
Fischler was then put on paid leave for alleged sexual misconduct, but was cleared of the accusations when an investigator found that the ringleader of the girls had persuaded others to corroborate the accusations.
"I'm just a singer who wants to be left alone," a witness alleged West had told them.
Just a few items were stolen from Martínez Pérez's house while valuable goods were left behind, so they allege that theft was not the real motive behind her murder.
But both alleged incidents left the women feeling shaken and deceived, and they said they were compelled to share their stories in solidarity with the countless women who have silently endured abuse, harassment and discrimination at the hands of powerful men. .
