I hope the parents of the young man win big and the lying girls have consequences.
No consequences, according to the linked article.
Look, I am male and no one has to tell me how vile men can be. Most women know how vile women can be. It is wrong to simply accept the word of either males or females when accusations of abuse are made. If the police had simply questioned the boy, the girls and anyone else with knowledge of the thing then this could have been nipped in the bud.