What about the other woman? And where's the evidence the first one retracted her claim?
Just to get some clarity on who is accusing him of what -- looking back over Squeaky Chiona's original post, it looks like her primary accusations are that he emotionally manipulated and cheated on her. She also relayed Noshcore's/Emma's accusation that TheAzureCrow/Laidlaw had raped her. Noshcore/Emma then responded to affirm the accusation.
(Side note: Have misunderstood the situation?)
If my reading of Squeaky Chiona's post is correct, then Something Witty Entertainment may likely be referring to Noshcore's/Emma's accusation of rape, and not necessarily Squeaky Chiona's accusation that he was psychologically and emotionally abusive.
As a side note, here's a search everything on Squeaky Chiona's channel about TheAzureCrow:
The Rabbit Hole Of particular note is
this post, which provides a link to several Imgur galleries of messenger conversations that she and Noshcore/Emma had exchanged with TheAzureCrow.
Notably, there does not appear to be any sort of retraction.
As for Noshcore/Emma, her Tumblr account appears to have disappeared. That seems particularly unusual, because I am reasonably certain that I was able to access it yesterday. If I am recalling correctly, I could not find anything on her account about TheAzureCrow (although that may be because I was searching for "Blue Azure Crow"). Thus, so far as I can tell, no evidence of a retraction from that corner.
We must also take into account that, as far as the law is concerned, innocent until proven guilty is truth.
So, others have noted that the standard for imposing criminal liability is not necessarily the correct standard for judging truth in general. It's also worth noting that, although criminal trials require that
guilt be established beyond a reasonable double, civil trials require that
liability be established by a preponderance of the evidence (i.e., whichever side seems more likely wins).
Also I really don't like this whole discussion as it is only barely related to SAOA on the fact that it is one voice actor that can be fired not a core team member. If these accusations were against say YamatoSFX or Hayabusa449 or this thread was about Blazing Azure Crow's series then yeah I could see the last few pages being about this stuff but this is starting to feel like thread derailment.
The problem with this stance is that the "official" stance of SAOA's creators is "We're defending him because he's a good guy who's been unfairly maligned." Also, the fact that he has a brief acting role does not mean that he doesn't also have some backend role in production.
Show me where the grey area is in "did/didn't."
As
@spaceman1997 pointed out, we're talking about the issue of what we know and believe, although I think that the "Know Is True/Know Is False/Don't Know" trichotomy is maybe a little bit oversimplified and it may be useful to consider things in term of how sure we are that they are true/false.
In this instance, I haven't waded through all of the available evidence. However, what I've seen suggests that TheAzureCrow is, at best, a serial philanderer who is psychologically and emotionally abusive towards his partners (conquests?) and that quite a few people who have interacted with him do not believe that it would be out of character for him to have raped someone.
I am aware that most of the information that I am getting is from one side of the issue (Squeaky Chiona's tumblr history), but part of that is because the other side has been trying to keep the issue under wraps rather than addressing the issue.
Or at the very least that all evidence should be made available and he should make a statement.
Potentially worth noting -- Squeaky Chiona
addressed an unlisted/private non-apology apology video that TheAzureCrow/Laidlaw posted to Youtube.
