A Canadian lawyer says there could be legal implications for those posting unsubstantiated theories online about the two missing children from Nova Scotia.
Posts have been circulating on social media speculating what happened to Lilly and Jack Sullivan. The siblings, aged six and four, were reported missing on the morning of May 2 from their home on Gairloch Road in Lansdowne Station, which is about 30 kilometres from New Glasgow, N.S. The RCMP previously said the siblings were believed to have “wandered away.”
The case has garnered worldwide interest and a hunger from the public for answers. Some posts online include blaming the parents and suggesting they had something to do with their disappearance, pinning the parents against each other, claiming the children are alive, among other theories.
There are videos on social media showing people super-imposing themselves over images and/or video coming up with ideas or opinions based on small visual details or bits of information that were said.
Allison Harris, a lawyer with Carter Simpson in Halifax, says she sees “similarities” in terms of online rumors and accusations in comparison to the parents of a missing toddler she represented a few years ago.
Harris was involved in the case of three-year-old Dylan Ehler, whose parents took legal action over online harassment in the disappearance of their son from Truro, N.S. in May 2020.
The parents said within hours of their son going missing they were met with an onslaught of cyber bullying and harassment.
According to the family, Dylan was playing in the backyard when his grandmother turned her back to put a dog on the leash and Dylan vanished. Dylan was presumed to have fallen into the nearby Lepper Brook and drowned. His body was never found.
FULL ARTICLE: https://globalnews.ca/news/11179437/missing-nova-scotia-children-online-theories-legal-action/
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