Jane Long, in #22 you posted, “I have no idea if it’s true, or NOT.”
When one hears or reads as gossip something ghastly, horrible, derogatory and illegal about other human beings, best practice is to not spread it around if one can not prove its veracity.
Sadly, the internet has made gossips of people who would never dream of spreading ugly rumors face to face.
I haven’t “spread anything around”.
You take care.