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Date: March 14, 2018
“A Belfast law graduate has called for new legislation to curb vigilante paedophile hunters after he was wrongly identified as a sexual predator and falsely accused of grooming children. The Queen’s University graduate was left confused following a sudden influx of friend requests on social media, before it became apparent that he shared the same name as one of the vigilante group’s targets. A barrage of profane abuse soon followed. … The wrongly-identified man voiced his “vehement” opposition to those presenting themselves as “protectors of the community” and branded their online activities as an incitement of “citizen led violence”. He warned that online outrage quickly morphs into calls for “justice outside the law” from members of the public and accused those in the group of falsely claiming that their chief concern is children’s welfare. “These groups, in their quest to publicly shame individuals, are self-serving attention seeking bullies and thugs more concerned with tabloid and online social media titillation than they are with the protection and safeguarding of children,” he wrote on Facebook. … The unsuspecting target of online hate made clear he was not defending anyone who commits sexual offences, but rather their right to due process, and said there is no point trying to reason with his critics. “Unfortunately it doesn’t matter what you say, you’ll never convince these types of people that what they are doing is wrong,” he said. The innocent victim is now calling for legislation to curtail vigilante groups who he warned could accuse anyone and have the potential to destroy lives.” |
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Falsely accused Belfast man slams vigilante paedophile hunters…
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