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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's interesting how just about all the discourse on this article is about policing women and girls behavior and not the pedos. [/quote]

Good point. It’s like we’ve come to expect a subset of men will behave like this. And it seems more prevalent than I had ever imagined. It sucks, but how do we lock them all away?

Also, I don’t understand the men who are so brazenly open about finding young girls sexy. Like to actually take the time to comment is just bleghhhh. But it also makes you wonder how many are “smart” enough to be covert about it and that these creeps commenting may be the tip of the iceberg. It’s terrifying that these men are just out there in our communities and we have no idea. [/quote]

They ARE out there, and they don't look like you think they do.

I was just reading an article yesterday about Eliot Cutler, a lawyer from Maine who is now disbarred after conviction for possession of child pornography to the tune of 80,000 images of child sexual abuse downloaded on his devices. Here is his Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Cutler

So far his wife has remained married to him despite the overwhelming evidence of his guilt and the reality that he is now a disgraced, disbarred lifetime sex offender registrant.

One of my very best friends growing up confided in me years ago that her husband had a thing for child pornography. She was considering leaving him and I urged her strenuously to do so, ASAP. She decided not to, and then our friendship was over - I guess she didn't want to live with knowing that I knew and that she'd chosen to remain in a marriage to a sick pervert (her own description of him) despite them having no kids. He made a much better salary than she did, so I guess it came down to her wanting the lifestyle that being with him could afford her.

During my time as a prosecutor I saw a range of unimaginable things done by men who you would never guess by looking at them were sick freaks. People tend to think of child sex criminals (and yes, viewing it makes you every bit the criminal as the one who made it) as nasty identifiable losers just like they tend to think of rapists as big scary (black?) men who grab a victim and drag her into a dark alley. The truth is that the majority of rapists and child molesters and pedophiles look just like the all-American husband next door, the colleague in the next office, etc.

I haven't read all of the article yet but what I read made me sick to my stomach. Some people shouldn't be allowed to breed, and I would include any parent who puts their child's body on display this way while knowing that thousands if not millions of sickos are wanking off to the image of their child online. Never mind that meta data could assist someone in finding and snatching one of these Insta kids and selling them into a short and miserable life being raped and brutalized for the pleasure of other sickos.

We can rail about the safeguards that Meta and other companies should put in place, but the primary safeguard is a responsible parent and these parents are disgusting - they not only aren't safeguarding their kids, they are intentionally expoiting and trafficking them. [/quote]

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