ASHE SCHOW: One year later, California man still haunted by false charges.

It’s been one year since child-sexting charges were dropped against Scott Hounsell for lack of evidence, but his life is far from recovered.

“I live in constant fear that the person I attempt to work with or my new employer is going to enter my name into Google and then rescind any offer for work,” Scott told the Washington Examiner. “I constantly think of my children, and how their friends’ parents are going to view me in the future. I avoid situations like the plague where I could ever, even for a second, be thought of as having done something like what I was accused of.”

Scott’s struggles began in 2013 with an accusation that he had sent explicit Facebook messages to a minor. No such messages were found on her computer or in Facebook’s archive, and the District Attorney declined to file charges. But the Los Angeles City Attorney, a newly-elected Democrat, pounced on the accusation, charging Scott immediately — at the time, Scott was the executive director of the Republican Party of L.A. County.

The Democrat City Attorney who pressed these charges is named Mike Feuer.