you've assumed and you're 100% wrong in your assumptions.  Gossip.  Kills.  There is no telling where it got started: perhaps from someone who didn't like him, someone just nasty.  If it'd had happened prior?  It should of been settled face to face,  I can tell you work stories that would frighten you and I did nothing.  UofO?  Happened there from a prof who owned a laundry mat in the old sheldon plaza.  I've also experienced the absolute cruelty of people who gossip.  They tell others.  Pretty soon, people are acting differently.  Problem is?  When you listen to gossip, it isn't like you can verify anything, right?  Then, you take it as truth, pass it on...
Get real.  I've lived thru both issues that I'm addressing and you best just move on if you can't take my word for it as a woman.  Not one word because this .....for the moment domestic.....is laying it out there .......there are always possibilities of truths you can't comprehend so I can only pray he gets a fair trial