Photo of husband posted on Facebook group with allegation - legalities?

[Hattie24]

Earlier I was alerted to a post by a woman on our town’s community Facebook page. It is a rant about a flat in her block being used by a group of prostitutes which is causing issues at unsociable hours and how the landlord isn’t doing anything about it. Under this there are photos of various men at the entrance of the block of flats and one of them is my husband. The insinuation is that these have all been visiting that flat.

I want to know the legalities of this woman posting such an allegation as she is outright refusing to remove the post. It is obviously extremely humiliating for me (friends and no doubt colleagues have seen it) and there’s so many comments underneath. We’ve been on a ‘break’ due to various issues but still living together and haven’t been intimate for nearly a year so I don’t need a lecture on how I shouldn’t have married such a man.

Is it me or is someone putting up a post like this without any thought for the consequences on various families etc utterly disgusting?

A man who pays money to rape women and doesn't care whether they've been trafficked is not a decent man! JFC!

Can you quote the posts that are showing more sympathy for the rapist than for the OP? Because all I can see is a bunch of women concerned about vulnerable women and girls being trafficked and assaulted.

Don't be an immature idiot.

By the way, wouldn't you rather have a man who is decent on the surface and throughout, than deep down?

@Hattie24 You could say that about anyone "he's a decent man deep down". For me actions speak louder than words. But I think you don't want to believe it's true so whatever far fetched salad he's feeding you you'll buy it. Just like he buys prostitutes.

I'd never let your husband back in your life after this .... I wouldn't waste money on solicitors getting someone prosecuted for posting a picture as awful as if is I'd pay out for a divorce though.
Your husbands at fault no one else.

"He says he was seeing a physio for treatment of a muscle injury linked to his rugby playing. I am struggling to believe this"

It is NOT defamation if it's true. I'd stay out of it OP. Hope your children don't find out about the post. But if they do you will just have to support them through it. Direct any questions to their father.

This is not your circus.

Doesn’t she? I’m starting to get a sense of how OP and hubby ended up together.

As far as I understand it visiting a “escort “ is not illegal. Running a brothel is. Not sure how that factors in. I feel for you and your family, it is humiliating for you.
Pay no attention to “your husband is a demon posts.” That has no bearing on you. Enormous amounts of men use call girls.

Are you saying it is OK to buy women’s bodies for sex, @Angelbottom? That it is fine to be the sort of man who doesn’t care if a woman has been trafficked and is being forced into prostitution, as long as he gets to fuck someone?

You are right that it is not illegal to buy sex with a prostitute, but I still think it is morally repugnant.

What other reason could there be for a flat full of women, that change on a regular and frequent basis, and have a stream of solely male visitors who only stay an hour or so, @Gloriia? I can’t think of any innocent explanations for all of that.

The word you're looking for is prostitute.

And since when does an enormous amount of men doing anything, make something ok?

Well that's horrible then. The reality of living next to prostitutes will be grim. And she is not a ",snooping cow", funny how all your fury is directed at her and not your lying cheating DH. You deserve each other

I suspect the word is actually trafficked women

The "physio" just so happens to operate out of a flat, and just so happens to be a mate.

This is obviously just a friend providing a cover story.

The husband has offered to let OP go through his bank statements.

And this is laughable. It's a brothel operating out of someone's flat. He'll have paid in cash, which will have gone straight to the pimp of these sex-trafficked women with no English.

OP obviously doesn't care either way, but if this convoluted yarn about the "physio" is designed to convince friends and family of her husband's innocence, I wouldn't bother. No-one with half a brain cell would buy it.

I believe the preferred term is sex worker. And it is a legitimate, legal and taxable profession. HMRC makes a large amount of revenue from this industry (see only fans) notwithstanding your moral outrage.
The point of the post is what is excepted in the parameters of the law; not the fact MN’s don’t like the idea of their husbands/partners/brothers paying for sex—which many are.

Sex trafficking is a tragedy, but not all sex workers are trafficked.

Worker suggests that they are subject to employment law, legal rights, health and safety etc and this quite clearly isn't the case. Prostitute is far more accurate.

Tens of thousands will be though and the remainder are likely to have abuse and trauma in their background.

Yes I am morally outraged by men abusing women

Enormous amounts of men are low life scum who hate women and have zero regard for their health and well being and are happy to pay for access to their bodies.

Fgs the women are clearly trafficked! You expect the residents to take it up with trafficked women? Or their organised crime gang pimps?

ah that old chestnut…generally used when people who lack critical thinking skills aren’t winning an argument

Lol

Forget about the FB woman. Sort out your marriage/ divorce. I'd not have anything to do with that man.

It won't reflect badly on you if people see the post .he is his own person.

Get the divorce is motion fgs

You should be focusing on his dirty fucking habit and thinking how to make it so you never need to see his face again.
He deserves to be shamed