Saturday, April 9, 2011

Mary Housler commits a criminal offence on this blog

Last night, Mary Housler, the administrator of Carenne Support posted on this blog about the criminal records of two juveniles. Under NSW law, the publication of the names of children involved in criminal offences is punishable by a maximum 12 months imprisonment.

Mrs Housler made the Anonymous posting at 8:28 PM last night. Through IP address logs and emails provided to Carenne Gate, the Anonymous comment was traced to the Carenne Support administrator.

According to Liberty Star, one of the persons named were reporting to Portland Police Station while Sgt Scott Russell was stationed there, providing further evidence of the supply of police information by Scott and Simone Russell.

As a person who commented on this blog, Mary Housler is considered the person who published the information.