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Been wondering the same. Suppose it depends where you are. A big town/city maybe its not big news, small village it'll be headlining in the local rag.

I dread that bit.

dreaded it and it happened and was horrific , they do it for the worst headlines and click bait they don't always print all of the story they didn't in my young person's case they left a lot out that would have cleared a lot of things up but they want the rage bait , I hope it doesn't hit the media it ruined our lives other than the crime itself

It's hard to say. I've seen a few on here that haven't been reported on but I couldn't guess what the percentage is. My persons was and yes it was horrid but he's had no repercussions from it so far. Touch wood. x

It must be down to luck, it was my biggest fear but I can tell you that my ex partner had absolutely no media coverage at all. This was 8 months ago so I think he has escaped it. He also managed to keep his job as he works in IT with no contact with under 18's. Hope this helps.

I'm pretty sure there's no way to predict this. My ex's case went on the Police social media and then in the press but not until 6 weeks after sentencing. I thought we'd got away with it because they wasn't a reporter there on the day of sentencing. What I didn't know was that there's a Police press department that send information out to the local Police to put on their social media. It's a complete nightmare and usually salacious but I do understand why they do it.

It's also almost impossible to keep track of due to groups and fb pages such as "Red Rose UK - expose them all" and the like. They constantly regurgitate articles.

I'm dreading it, i scout the local police page daily looking for these things to see how often they are posted. One thing though, judging by the amount of people that are on this forum, and think about how many people aren't on this forum who it is happening to... how many do we actually see? Just me and my naivety maybe but I suppose we have to have hope somewhere. Totally understand your worries, its nothing we can control unfortunately xx

Mine was reported at plea hearing. No photo but name, address, age, clickbait headline and all the sordid details form the case; not just the charges. Thankfully it was online local paper only; and nobody has mentioned it to me; except a close friend who reached out and was worried about me. My family have read it and were shocked at how bad it is. I haven't as I knew it would be bad; I had a feeling he was minimising and have already kept myself awake many a night about it. I'm ignoring it but the close family and school are ready to pounce should a single word be uttered around my child. I am ready to go full mama bear on this one if needed. The only thing that's kept me sane is how well my child has coped and adapted to our broken disaster of a family