Moderator Observations Regarding Posts asking for Psychic Medium Input on Public Missing Persons and Murder Investigations. Why Some Will be Removed.

[RicottaPuffs]

We have had posts in the past, asking mediums to speculate on the fates, locations, and situations of missing persons and murder victims in our sub. These posts may be removed for some of the following reasons.

First of all, this activity should be a private collaboration between the actual concerned persons in a case. It is very unlikely to be the subject of a public post.

If the police or law enforcement is actively working on solving a case, they are required by law to follow any leads. It can actually interfere with the ability of law enforcement to find a missing or endangered person to have to investigate false or misleading information. We want missing persons to be located. We want trafficking victims to be found and saved. We want justice to be enacted.

We do not wish to be the source of misinformation that might harm a living person’s chances of being found and safely returned home. We don’t wish to endanger an lndividual fleeing a harmful situation.

In addition, most of these posts are made by tragedy tourists, or a friend of a friend, of an uncle of the pool man, or some such person.

Your curiosity or even nosiness is not a reason to insert yourself into a case. Some of the people who do this are simply unaware they are inappropriate. This is clarification.

It is unethical to try to get psychics to speculate. It can be extremely disrespectful to the families of victims as well. If they want your input, they will ask.

As the family member of a victim of violent crime, I can comment without hesitation that the families do not appreciate your interference. Doing so, posting, asking for additional information outside of the wishes of a family may end your association or friendship. If your actions impede a police investigation, it can result in charges in some places.

Often, psychics are already working on a case. Those psychics can receive information that corroborates another psychic’s work or that conflicts with it. Sharing it on a post is, again, not ethical. sharing it in private is something a psychic provides information at their own risk.

Do not respond to these posts as a psychic without verifying that you are assisting the actual family. One psychic recently, may have spent hours and hours in the assumption that they were helping the actual family of a victim in a very public case, and they were not in contact with the family at all. Due diligence did not occur because the psychic acted in good faith and may not have been communicating with either the family or law enforcement.

The criminals who commit crimes do follow social media to see who is commenting, who may know too much, and who is a threat to them. We don’t want our psychics endangered.

In order to be fair to victims, law enforcement, and loved ones, we will be removing these speculation posts in our sub.

In order to protect psychics who may have unwittingly made their involvement obvious to criminals, we will be removing these posts.

Thank you for understanding.

An admin.

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[RicottaPuffs]

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