Should Sex Offenders Remain Annonymous Until Charged?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48822950
for that matter anyone accused of any crime should have anonymity until charged.

[ToraToraTora]

I should have put the word "alleged" after the word "should" in the title.

[Old_Geezer]

Probably until convicted.

[spathiphyllum]

Yes

[maggiebee]

Most definitely until convicted. Too many have been subject to totally unfounded accusations and we all know that mud sticks no matter what the truth of the matter.

[naomi24]

Yes.

[youngmafbog]

Yes - until convicted.

[agchristie]

Yes. Some folk are willing to assume that people are guilty until proved innocent in this world of ever increasing reliance of social media for example.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes, they should.

[elliemay1]

Yes

[steg]

Aye

[Peter Pedant]

erm sorry but they arent sex offenders until conviction are they?

should people under investigation be anonymised until charged and or convicted is a slightly better question ....

see the Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries - - -
I hadnt realised the people and police of Bristol were so thick ....

[Peter Pedant]

the other argument which i dont like
but which has happened in my little village
is that the publicity causes other victims to come forward

twrribly damaging - we realised that the friend of the family was only coming around so that he could groom our then 14 y old
( twenty years later .... )

[andy-hughes]

If justice is to operate, it has to operate fairly and impartially, and that means innocent until proven guilty.

If we as a society start tweaking that rule to allow certain accusations to be revealed, the concept falls apart - it has to be all or nothing.

There are flaws to that system - but it's still better than the alternative.

[Peter Pedant]

the sex trials I have attended ( not as witness or juryman) havent filled me with admiration ....

I spent a lot of time thinking - hasnt the evidence conclusively proven he didnt do it .... ? and yet the cases clank on .... for days

[five day trial, 8 mins to acquit)

[woofgang]

All they are asking for is, as TTT says, anonymity until charged which seems fair. I think it would be impossible for anonymity to be maintained until trial let alone conviction. I remember poor Matthew Kelly and how badly he was treated

[zebo]

"Yes. Some folk are willing to assume that people are guilty until proved innocent in this world of ever increasing reliance of social media for example."

Even after being found innocent in court the dirt sticks, especially if it's a man accused of a sex related crime, the feministas will claim that he isn't innocent, there just wasn't enough evidence to conveict.

[woofgang]

zebo, blokes get caught up in this too both as genuine victims and activists/liars.

[EDDIE51]

Yes ! Sex offences have FAR more false accusations than other offences!

[Old_Geezer]

Not the people so much PP, but the media.
Consumers of the media only have it's reporting to go on.