Petition · past parliament

Protect the identity of sexual crime suspects until proven guilty.

Rejected 17 signatures

What the petition asks

All too often, innocent parties are accused of rape, paedophilia and other sexual crimes, only to be proven as innocent. However an allegation of such severity will have a detrimental effect to their reputation indefinitely

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Timeline

9 Mar 2016 Petition opened for signatures
10 Mar 2016 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 17
Status Rejected
Rejected 10 Mar 2016

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.