In message <[log in to unmask]>, Sara Jane
Newbon <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Obviously people have signed this in the hope of some action, but if the
>person isn't a known sex offender/already under suspicion with the police
>then this amounts to slander/defamation doesn't it?
It may depend on what the petition says. If, in effect it says "we, the
undersigned, assert that the person named above is a sex offender,
without having any actual proof", then they could well be in deep
doo-doo. Especially if the person named above isn't.
--
Roland Perry
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