On 11/3/05, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suspect the poor sod is thinking more of the cost of cosmetic surgery > and a name change. I do hope that there is a meaty civil action > deriving from this. >
what really pisses me off in this is the cops giving this guy's name and pic to the press - and the press choosing to publish it. I mean, bad enough he's arrested, but for all that humiliating publicity! There will be enough people who saw the initial story who never read the subsequent ones about the charges being withdrawn, that this poor sucker will always wonder, when he's out in public, if people are looking at him funny whether they recognize him. about a decade ago, the police in kitchener, ontario, canada (about an hour west of toronto) arrested about a dozen men alleged to have been involved in a washroom sex thing. one of them, a lawyer from a nearby town, married with kids, killed himself after his name was released to the local press and published. no matter what one thinks of the charges, this man was innocent until proven guilty, yet his reputation was smeared before he ever had a chance to see the inside of a courtroom. any charges of a sexual nature should be handled more sensitively by the police and press. lives are too easily ruined by mere allegations, even if they prove to be groundless. i hope he sues for millions, and wins. -frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
