Plymouth Child abuse case and Facebook

[blah]

* caveat - this is a case in progress *

* no ranting on the specifics of this case zone *

Anyone typed the name of the person who has been charged with child abuse into facebook ?

I can see an increasing number of groups calling for the person to be hung/killed etc.

sample:

"what a dirty distgusting women................

i have 3 kids and 1 on the way............what filth.....she should have her throat cut and left to drip dry............"

Case specifics aside, whatdoes the esteemed EDF forum think about this huge site letting such groups prosper ?

[blah]

oh yes

* no ranting about Peedos per se zone *

[????]

Sounds like an average day on here to be honest

[ruffers]

blah Wrote:

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> Anyone typed the name of the person who has been

> charged with child abuse into facebook ?

>

Just you?

[blah]

given the hundreds of people who have signed up to these groups, I fear not

[Huguenot]

I believe we already have laws against incitement to violence, and this would certainly fall foul of them

There's also social taboos - 'innocent until proven...' etc.

On the former there's a legislative issue 'cross-border'.

On the latter such liberalism is not really a concern of the great mass of humanity, hence all it takes for evil to prosper is good men to do nothing etc.

[Santerme]

blah Wrote:

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> * caveat - this is a case in progress *

>

> * no ranting on the specifics of this case zone *

>

> Anyone typed the name of the person who has been

> charged with child abuse into facebook ?

>

> I can see an increasing number of groups calling

> for the person to be hung/killed etc.

>

> sample:

>

> "what a dirty distgusting women................

>

> i have 3 kids and 1 on the way............what

> filth.....she should have her throat cut and left

> to drip dry............"

>

>

> Case specifics aside, whatdoes the esteemed EDF

> forum think about this huge site letting such

> groups prosper ?

Surely they should be calling for her to be hanged, not hung!

FAcebook should just pull the plug on such groups.

[Horsebox]

Ban facebook.

It's a sign of the times, you can't be too careful and it beggars belief etc etc.

[bignumber5]

Does beg the question that with that much media interest and extreme coverage at the charging stage, how is an inpartial and fair jury to be found?

[Keef]

Because she is a woman, and not the scary boogey man, I very much doubt she'll get a fair trial.

[Jeremy]

I am naive to the workings of the legal system.

If she pleads guilty, do the jury still have a part to play?

[blah]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I am naive to the workings of the legal system.

>

> If she pleads guilty, do the jury still have a

> part to play?

Not in the UK

different elsewhere through