Pure agreement with Niet here.

When you take on the mantle of something so big, you take on a certain responsibility to your player base, primarily because they're using your medium to express themselves, whether it be truthful or a lie - but that isn't for us to decide.
What is for us to decide, as the people who do most of the interacting with other players on a player-player level, is whether or not we do harbor concern for other players we meet - and obviously to determine those reasons why. Obviously some reason will be... Less valid than others, shall we say, but if there is genuine concern here, then it should be addressed... not brushed aside.

Pence, you appear to have misunderstood and made comments that have nothing to do with the OP's post, or have made completely nullified points by simple facts - facts which I will now state.

"If I was a GM" - Yeah, well. You're not. Are you?
"I wouldn't let you know anything" - Nobody asked to know anything - it was asked that the powers that be simply look at this case, rather than simply dismissing it with a wave of their hand. Very big difference.
"or have any impact on another players life." - Little bit too late for that, don't you think?
"You kicked someone out of your FC and now want to know about their personal life" - Wrong. Read the second point again.
"Surely that seems a bit odd to you?" - Sure it does, but... Seeing as nobody brought that up but you... Just saying, bud.

If I may move to your last sentence and nullify that as well, "passing the buck"? What "buck" is there to pass when the players simply can't do anything, but the GMs can. This isn't "passing the buck" as much as it is that where GMs may have their limitations... Players have many, many more. The people who are fit to handle this are not the players themselves, but those who have less limitations.
That... Just so happens to be the GMs.