If you want to stop this kind of thing from happening, it means speaking up when folks around you express hate for other subgroups, whether that is sexual, racial, or religious.

  • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I cannot believe the second person is in their thirties with the way they look. And why were all these 30+yos involving a 19yo in this? Sounds like grooming to me

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      Goodwin was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2015 for 1st degree criminal sexual act and 1st degree sexual abuse, according to state prison records. He was released in 2023.

      The victims were a 7-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl, according to the state sex offender’s registry.

      Sage was sentenced to two to four years in state prison in 2022 for 4th degree grand larceny and 1st degree dissemination of indecent material to a minor. He got out in 2024.

      They’re definitely people who would groom kids, but I assume they’re definitely mentally… uh… delayed, due to probably lots of factors, the least of not which is the American prison system. But I’m definitely not excusing any of these horrid fucks, don’t take that as the takeaway from my comment. My point is rather that the mishmash ages make sense because it’s a group of people who never really grew up in any sense of the word, so your idea of a “normal” 30+ year old prolly doesn’t apply here. And even if was like proper grooming for that 19-year old, it’s one of their smaller crimes at that point, compared to the other horrid shit