I [M29 in a european country] would like to tell my story on how my life got absolutely ruined by a false accusation.

I suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, I was diagnosed with it at age of 16 and started medical treatment but after a while my paranoia got worse and I stopped taking my psychatric medication. At 18 years old I hit a police officer so I got arrested and sent to a closed psychatric hospital. I remained there for three years then got released on probation under the condition I take a medication injection from the hospital every 3 weeks which gets documented. I was finally able to enter college so enrolled into electrical engineering.

I worked a part time job at certain days while I was in college and finished work late at night. One night I walked home like I always do and there was a group of five young women (aged 17, 19, 21, 22, 25) walking in front of me. We walked in the same direction for a while and I was minding my own business when the group stopped and one woman [F19] started walking towards me. I didn't think anything of it but when she got to me she kicked me so hard in my balls that I immediately collapsed and had a very hard time breathing. She started kicking me in my face while I was on the ground and another woman [F25] from group came and started stamping on my hands. They called me stuff like rapist, stalker, thug, etc. while the other women were taking a video of the entire beating. Two security guards from a nearby club came over after they heard the noise, the women stopped beating on me and the security called a police/ambulance. When the officers asked the women what happened, they said they "felt threatened" and had to defend themselves. I got to a hospital with a broken jaw, broken nose and severely injured hands.

Later I found out that the women pressed charges against me for "harassment, sexual abuse and stalking". This was especially bad for me as I was on probation. I had no chance at court, the story changed from simply "feeling threatened" to "me catcalling them, stalking them and sexually assaulting two of the women and attempting to rape", they also asked for damages. One women showed beating marks on her face which supposedly were done by me, I even started doubting myself after seeing that. My lawyer got the two security guards to testify and they both said they saw the women unharmed and that there was in fact a video. Their testimonies were rejected as "it was too dark for them so they could not have possibly seen anything". The video was "deleted by accident but it would not have shown anything we don't already know". According to the police report all the girls were drunk at the time of the incident. The only thing ruled in my favour was not having to pay damages to the women.

I was sent back to the closed psychatric hospital with stricter security. My parents could only visit me once a week and they needed to get a court permission every time. Few months later my father passed away and I was not allowed to attend his funeral. The medication dosage was increased which started showing severe side effects on me. To date I still have to take the higher dosage. I also cannot fully control my hands anymore.

Over the years the restrictions got lifted slowly, until after six years I was finally allowed to go home.

Here I am now, 29 years old, no friends, no college degree, no work experience, just almost a decade long in closed psychatric hospitals and the lifelong label as an insane sexual offender. I have no future in the labour market. I was working hard to get a degree, get a good job and to be able to ensure my parents a good life. I keep asking myself every day, why all this? What did they gain from it? Why do I have to suffer all this just because someone felt threatened by me for no reason? You get to ruin someone's life and crush their dreams because you feel entitled to act however you like based on your feelings? Seriously fuck your feelings.