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Not sure what the content of the email was, but in such situation this person should go to the police first rather than make a campaign.

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Things that are not strictly illegal may still be unethical. Do you feel that individuals should never raise awareness about unethical behavior unless it is illegal?

This is a good point and I agree with you. Still not sure whether a public prosecution is the best thing as I completely ignore such email between both parties and this person as full grown adult still decided to go work with him.

You have no conception of how useless if not outright hostile police are to this kind of issue. In this case, the two accusers took the exactly correct action: once they compared experiences and realized there was a pattern here, not a one off isolated mistake, they raised the issue with the organization. The organization is taking what they're saying seriously enough to retain an independent investigator, though almost certainly their ultimate goal is organizational CYA.

> though almost certainly their ultimate goal is organizational CYA.

This is why it was not the correct action, although you are right that the police in America are worse than useless on these issues.

We aren’t in the age of rocks and stones and revenges. The police snd the justice is for everyone and if it isn’t that should be the top first priority before any social justice campaign individual moves.

Some people in this forum seems to depict people who just don’t agree in their modus operandi.

> if it isn’t

It isn’t.

> should be the top first priority before any social justice campaign individual moves

So you are saying that we have to fix the whole society before anyone can tell anyone’s boss that the person in question was creeping on them in a position of authority. Do we also have to solve poverty before or only the gender related injustices?

> Some people in this forum seems to depict people who just don’t agree in their modus operandi.

Sorry I don’t understand you. Who depicts whom doing what?

In some places, the age of consent is 17 (or lower), so without physical coercion, Aubrey may not have a legal leg to stand on depending on the content of the message.

Although that’s right I still totally ignore the content of that email and if it was ilegal that should be put in the knowledge of the legal tutors and authorities. The other thing is that this person as she turned an adult continued the contact with this person, so I don’t really think a public scandal is justified.

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