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Has anybody ever been prosecuted for mentioning a name that's been suppressed?
I mean it depends on what exactly you mean. "Mentioning" as in saying out loud is probably hard to prove.
But something that comes to mind is blogger Cameron Slater that got done for writing a blog breaching name suppression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Slater
Sounds like he got a slap on the wrist for writing in a highly read blog. If you named somebody here nobody would do anything.
One thing to remember here is that we aren't on some facebook page. I wouldn't risk the existence of this instance by leaving up something that exposes name suppression, and I would appreciate if others also respected that. No matter how small you think the risk is, it's not worth it to know someone's name when you can't do anything about it anyway.