free press and erroneous sex charges destroy teacher

Описание: How the Free Press destroyed a teacher's life (December 14, 2012)
The recent nightmare of 47-year-old Brampton, Ontario teacher Alan Muliyil, courtesy of the York Regional Police -- and the unravelling of his reputation built over 25 years -- once again highlights the desperate need to impose legal limits on an unrestrained, profit-oriented, sensationalist media that does irreparable damage to the lives of ordinary people -- Muliyil is a South Asian Canadian whose ordeal began in May when police charged him with sex related offences involving a 14 year old prostitute -- and held the charge over his head for six months -- his 14 year teaching career ended, his 20 years of coaching for a volleyball team ended and he was a pariah in the community -- and then suddenly the crown attorney withdrew the charge because of mistaken identity -- the cops had not even checked to see that the description of a white suspect with a beard did not match this clean shaven South Asian and apparently only went by a cell phone number given them which turned out to be his landline -- but embellished accounts had been fed to the media -- and soon these were all over the Internet -- because our right to a free press knows no limits his presumption of innocence disappeared in a puff of smoke -- under the old law all you could report was the name, address, age and the charge laid and you made sure the word alleged was used -- sensational accounts were considered a contempt of court and details could only be reported during the trial -- today, the police PR machine makes sure you are convicted in the media before your trial -- think about it, I'm Zuhair Kashmeri