Innocent family members at risk

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My partner’s relative was convicted of a horrible crime. My partner had no knowledge at all. The police shared the conviction on social media. People commented on the article. Then someone shared the article to a local group and people have been making assumptions and one commented and confused him with my partner and named the area he was from.

I am furious, my partner is innocent and now he and innocent family members are at risk of verbal abuse and attacks is in the street. I know people get verbal abuse just because they are related to the defendant. Why is there no support for innocent family members?

What support do you envision, and where from?
It’s terrible, but the full blame is on your relative.

The public don’t see it that way and just blame the family even though they had no idea that incident occurred.

that is the trouble people think everyone is tarred with the same brush. with social media too they soon learn about things that happen but never bother about the facts.
rise above it they will soon find something else to bother about

I'm sorry.

Something similar happened to an acquaintance of mine, a local businessman.

He finished up putting a statement on his business FB page, stating that the criminal was not his son, but was related to him. He further stated that he was disgusted by the criminal's actions and that he'd disowned him. In order to avoid any doubt, he stated that he no longer considered the relative a member of his family.