Very valuable lesson learned..... Courage truly holds the power to conquer adversity, being wrongly accused is an ugly affair especially when everyone seems to think you did it and you have no one on your side.... You were lucky to have the people you had in your corner, if not for them you might have been bullied into pay for something you didn't do......

In my language there's an adage that says "Ore ni iwon" which literally translates to "There's a limit to which you can render help", next time you are going to help someone make sure you are do it carefully....