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I recently went through my local police force's social media channels (going back quite far) and was surprised to see no stories at all involving IIOC convictions and only one involving communication. It was entirely focused on contact offenders. But it seems from here that other forces regularly report IIOC convictions on their social media accounts? Just wondering if this is another regional variation.
In our early days when I was obsessed with searching on the internet and so fearful all the time, I found our police FB group and scrolled back quite a long way and like you only found a couple of reports of rape convictions. I've made myself not look any more as it was only making eveything stirred up in my mind and I was heading for a breakdown - but I had the same experience as you did and I'm sure that our person can't be the only iioc offender in the county!!!!
I think it depends on your local media. I live in an area where everyone seems to know everyone else. We have 2 main sources of local media with one on them constantly reporting on any type of sexual offence because they know people are curious and will click on and read the story to to see if it's someone they know.
My experience was that there wasn't a court reporter on the day of sentencing, online or in person. However, the Police media department published a statement reporting EVERYTHING including the road address that we lived in with our children SIX WEEKS LATER! This was then put on the Police FB page, on the radio and in the press. It happened to be a half term so my 12 and 14 year old children had to return to school with everyone knowing what their father had done. It was absolutely the worst thing about the whole thing.