From Sophos Naked Security:
Man charged for naming sexual assault victim on police Facebook page
A UK man who named a victim of a sexual offence on a police Facebook page has been charged.
The Guardian reports that the man, 31-year-old Shane Ward, of Edlington, Doncaster, identified the victim in a comment he made on the South Yorkshire police's Facebook post about the crime.
He was charged under Section 5 of the Sexual Offences Amendment Act 1992 for breaching the victim's right to anonymity - a right that victims are supposed to have for life.
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