Social media’s intoxication is so pervasive in our lives that there is little escaping it. Recently, in this editorial space, we drew attention to the devastating consequences of rushing to judgment and the impact it has on the lives of those impacted.While on the last occasion, there appeared to be no malice in the actions of a young woman seeking to assist police officers in their investigations of the prowler in her neighbourhood, she unfortunately plastered the face of an innocent 24-year-old Eden Lodge, St Michael man on social media and upended his life in the process.The stakes are even higher on this occasion. It involves a Member of Parliament who has been lawfully charged and taken before the court of law, where the matter should take its course and ought to be adjudicated.The process of charging accused persons is something that occurs almost every day in Barbados with little or no fanfare except for the few court watchers who are attracted to the precincts of judicial offices.
