A Google search for the name of an Ottawa-based RCMP officer convicted of confining, starving and abusing his son links to coverage of that court case. The officer’s identity is protected by a judge’s order designed to shield his son from publicity.
The officer’s name had never been reported by the Citizen or any other media outlet. The abused boy, now 15, was never identified in any article published online. Yet a search of the boy’s name produces results that link to coverage of the case.
That’s just horrendous, and in a world of social media, inescapable for the boy.
Well criminal acts that result in punishment are by definition matters of public record and familial data is pretty easy to figure out even if you can't figure it out in 2 seconds via google.
Since you can't keep the former secret it seems hard to imagine successfully keeping the latter secret.
Also the stigma attaches here to the victimizer who rather deserves it. Nobody is going to deny him employment or decline to date him based on being abused.
A Google search for the name of an Ottawa-based RCMP officer convicted of confining, starving and abusing his son links to coverage of that court case. The officer’s identity is protected by a judge’s order designed to shield his son from publicity.
The officer’s name had never been reported by the Citizen or any other media outlet. The abused boy, now 15, was never identified in any article published online. Yet a search of the boy’s name produces results that link to coverage of the case.
That’s just horrendous, and in a world of social media, inescapable for the boy.