It's kind of hard to wrap one's head around the lengths to which the admins and mods at susan-boyle.com will go to get their hands on information about Miss Boyle. They have sent members to case her homes on several occasions, under the guise of “just passing by.” Some have tried to befriend Susan Boyle's friends and neighbors. Most disturbingly, they have sent a member to get Miss Boyle's birth records, as well as those of her non-famous siblings and her parents' marriage certificate.
Sometime in the fall of 2009, the moderators at that site decided that they wanted a copy of Susan Boyle's birth record, supposedly to check the spelling of her middle name. (Why? Don't ask me, I'm sane!) They also wanted the marriage record of Patrick and Bridget Boyle because they suspected that the eldest child was conceived out of wedlock. The other siblings were probably just collateral damage in this quest to nail down all things Boyle.
A former moderator of the site who has a background in history was dispatched to the Blackburn library to obtain these records. He told the authorities that he was doing historical research and was entitled to view and copy the documents. Once he got the copies, he emailed them to the then-current members of the “staff” at susan-boyle.com. This was a clear breach of Susan Boyle's privacy and that of her siblings.
What proof exists? A copy of Susan Boyle's birth record, which no one outside of Miss Boyle should have. Also the birth dates of all of her siblings, which came from the same source.
How awful is that?
Actually, that's not the worst of it. One of the moral midgets on that site bragged to anyone who would listen that she got a copy of Susan Boyle's medical records from a certain member of Susan's team. She quoted sections of the records that eerily paralleled things Susan later wrote of in her autobiography. Thankfully, this person didn't copy-and-paste Susan's private medical records into an email and hit “Reply All.” At least, I think she didn't....
