Rebecca Flood - The Sun newspaper

[Begginngletter]

Rebecca Flood - you picked up my post yesterday and you put it on your website.

You have taken the worst day of my life and made it 10000 times worse. Before you shared that, I was just about managing in this situation, now I am not.

I have emailed you and I have emailed your editors to beg you to remove it. You have ignored me.

I want to ask you here to please reconsider. Please show some compassion and don’t publicise this awful situation.

I am far from home and wanted to talk to some of my family about what has happened and now cannot, because I know some of them read that paper. They would be horrified that it had appeared there. I now feel completely alone in dealing with this.

Perhaps I was silly to put it on a public forum but I needed immediation help from people who didn’t know my family. Mumsnet always give you the option to remove such posts if you’re uncomfortable and I posted in the knowledge that I could do that somewhere down the line is needed.

You, on the other hand, have taken the worst thing I have ever been through and shared it irreversibly for the world to see.

If anyone is reading this and knows how I could escalate this, please let me know.

I realise this may draw even more attention to said story, but I am desperate for it to be removed before I tell my wider family what’s going on.

OP am so sorry this is awful

^^I feel for OP, but what do you mean ‘cruel violation of privacy’?

I get what the OP means. It's a public forum, yes. But newspapers have a much broader circulation with people who aren't necessarily like minded (generally forums are for specific interests - MN isn't exactly people agreeing). The "journalist" in this instance is pure and simple lazy, trolling sites for juicy, salacious posts to use for click bait. Even worse, the succubus is no doubt paid for her "work". I hate journalists with a passion. They traffic in voyeurism and tragedy.

k1233 sorry if it wasn’t clear, but I was replying to WellThisIsShit, who was the one to write ‘cruel violation of privacy’. I absolutely understand why the OP could feel her privacy has been compromised and be devastated by this. I wouldn’t challenge ‘cruel violation of privacy’ from the OP as an expression of how this feels.

The main point I guess is that there isn’t any expectation of privacy or confidentiality when posting on a public forum, especially when the forum makes sure you agree to their terms (that posts become their property) when you sign up. Hopefully people are becoming a bit more aware of that though it’s sad it takes cases like this to raise that awareness.

Sorry for ‘cases’ btw OP, this is your life. I just mean things like this happening.

I'm so very sorry your heartache has been added to by this vile creature