My question involves criminal law for the state of: NJ
Ok here is the story. my aunt and husband were arrested almost 2 weeks ago being accused of sexual assault on the son,(her stepson, husbands son) from 2008-2013. he is now 19. a little backround,she met her husband about 6 years ago, he lived in the apt upstairs with his then girlfriend and 14 year old son. things went bad and the girlfriend left and my aunt started dating him, before long he moved in with her, his son went back to Florida with his mom. His son has had a history of mental illness, he has been back and forth between his mother and father, never wanted to go to school, always out drinking, yes his father was not a good role model pretty much never cared what hi did, he has tried committing suicide many times, he clearly needed help. well fast forward to now and many years later, he had wanted to move in with my aunt and his dad, but they said no, they argued on the phone, Facebook and his mother got involved, and he tried killing himself again, after many excuses of wanting to kill himself he came up with the charges that my aunt and his dad forced him to have sex with my aunt in 2008 on several occasion's, supplied him with drugs and alcohol. so they are charged some pretty hefty charges of which bail is $650,000.00 with no 10%. of course our family does not have that, so they sit and wait they cant afford a lawyer and have to get a public defender, they have no proof of this whatsoever, nothing, only his word against theirs. so my question is this. is it possible they can be found guilty just on his word and no proof at all? will they look at his past mental illness and his attempted suicides and that he is unstable. this is just a nightmare and is ruining their life, I know for a fact that none of this is true.