This shit happened to the family member of a very good friend of mine: Small southern town, angry ex wife with powerful family members, and a baseless complaint by the step-daughter during the contentious divorce from mom.
The guy lost his job and had death threats against him in the community so had to leave. Political pressure was way too high for a pre-trial disposition even after volunteering for and passing multiple polygraphs so it went the distance and he was convicted based solely on hearsay. He ended up killing himself.
The VFW even cancelled his honor guard on the afternoon of his funeral after the ex-wife called telling them he was a pedophile so me and some friends helped the family out and acted as pallbearers and presented them with a flag and so forth.
I knew the guy pretty well, he'd been to my house multiple times and I'd observed him in a bunch of situations. You never TRULY know about someone, but I'm still convinced it was total bullshit. We felt that his mother deserved to have her son buried with dignity as a veteran, since every other thing had been taken from him/them.