Council worker leaked sex offender’s address to paedophile hunter’s group

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  1. Whilst I’m sure she felt she was doing the right thing I cannot feel that here actions were just abhorrent.
    Whilst I feel no pity for the person she outed, what is she to feel about others being hurt by these actions.
    What happens if the new occupant of that house is attacked as a result?
    What happens if this causes the sex offender to attack again?
    What happens when the people she riled up themselves go to prison?

  2. This is a problem all organisations have. Access to some of the most sensitive data they have has the lowest barrier of entry.

    Almost all of our data leaks come from temps in customer contact teams.

    (No offence to temps. You do a tough, under paid job with very little training)

  3. > After the hearing, she left the court building giggling and joking loudly with two female supporters and headed straight across the road and into the pub opposite the court.

    Sounds like the judge was right and she should have been jailed.

  4. Left the court giggling? Should have added another zero to her fine. £500 is pitiful and this vigilantism no doubt cost the tax payer thousands at the very least.

  5. Endangering a lives, had that fire started the neighbours would had been at risk, don’t care about your views, she belongs in prison.

    One thing certain, she doesn’t belong in the council or any job with access to personal information.

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    What an idiot- Police could have been carrying an operation out or worse- she arsed up and was the wrong address. So many things that could have gone wrong here.

  7. She’s a malicious dickhead, no doubt, but the fact that tax payers have to foot the bill to keep nonces safe is a fucking joke. They shouldn’t get more help than a normal person would get.

  8. Sacked asap and she will unlikely ever get a job where peoples data is involved again

  9. I understand what she did was wrong and illegal, but I don’t understand that absolute foaming at the mouth rage you see here on the comments. Where people here get furiously angry and utterly enraged…probably more so than they would do with many other crimes

    Do I think she was wrong? Yes

    Do I care about this more than serious crimes like assault, battery etc? Absolutely not

  10. Tbh you should be darn careful who you allow to gander at your personal information. I for one am pretty wary of the continued necessity to hand out your address to folks. It should be name and contacts alone for most organisations that don’t do deliveries and even then PO boxes and mail lockers should be much more common. Your bank account can be tied to your banks address.

    Btw I think I got some of my private data leaked after I was falsely accused of something serious like this (they just didn’t like me and thought I was weird lol). It’s screwed my life up good. Not sure what exactly has happened but I don’t trust even the police at this point. Snooper’s Charter needs repealing.

  11. In the same way homophobic attacks are often motivated by repressed sexuality, I imagine pedo hunters are motivated by their own buried obsessions.

  12. In the same way homophobic attacks are often motivated by repressed sexuality, I imagine pedo hunters are motivated by their own buried obsessions.

  13. The truth is, this is massively wrong on every level.

    99% of the country agree that peadophilia is wrong. You’re not in the minority. However, ignoring all current laws and regulations just turns us into those uncivilised societies we critique. People have rights, regardless of what they’ve done. Yes, it angers everyone. No, you can’t just start selectively denying people rights based on your opinion – that’s a very slippery slope akin to Nazi Germany.

    This dumb, girl deserves punishment. As do convinced pedophiles. Both people can be in the wrong for different reasons.

  14. There is always a slight chance of not giving the right name or the right address or maybe the guy wasn’t guilty

  15. The father left, canny imagine why. Silly fucking thot whopper. Deserves a slap but the amount of make up that would come off would sink the country into the Atlantic.

  16. Obviously the person who’s details she leaked is no good, and they deserve any punishments they received for that conduct.

    One person being bad doesn’t make everyone else good though – this is a massive case of misconduct in public office, which is one of the most serious crimes one can commit in a democracy. Everybody, even criminals, should be protected from the government overstepping his bounds.

    She knew what she was doing was wrong, if she didn’t she wouldn’t’ve insisted on keeping her identity/employer a secret.

    It’s difficult to speak against these anti-pedophile groups generally because of course they often do good things working with the police, but that doesn’t mean I need to support vigilante “mob” justice.

  17. How the actual, ever-living ***FUCK*** did she get away with a £500 fine after endangering a person’s life by leaking their details to a paedophile hunter group? This should have led to a custodial sentence at bare minimum, if not attempted GBH or murder charges, because I’m pretty sure the quote “deserves all he gets” shows intent to seriously harm or kill.

    In terms of the seriousness of this crime, it is far worse than the COVID lockdown breaches where we’ve been slapping teenagers with £10k fines by comparison – but that’s a different subject entirely…

    What Carr commited was a data breach so bad in terms of negative consequences that I’m pretty sure if the victim suffered serious injury or death, the council would have an open-and-shut civil suit on their hands and potentially have to pay six or seven figures in compensation to the would-be plaintiff. Frankly, she shouldn’t be employed in any role that deals with sensitive customer information ever again.

    As much as I think paedophilia is an abhorrent crime, it does not excuse or justify vigilantism. We should leave it to the criminal justice system to punish and protect the public from such people, even if we think they’re not doing enough.

    > “Do you think Car was wrong to give the sex offender’s details to the paedophile hunters? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section”

    Aside from mis-spelling the defendant’s surname, also note how there is no comments section on this HullLive article. I’m pretty sure it descended into so many calls for violence that Local World had to nuke it from orbit, or they pre-emptively disabled comments and didn’t let the reporter in on the memo.

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