• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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        Guilt by association.

        Super confused here…

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy

        That’s “guilt by association”, and as you can probably guess by that link, it’s not exactly viewed in a positive light…

        However, the fact that most pedophiles were themselves abused as child, and we know for a legal fact that his father sexually abused three girls (flashing at a bowling alley, at least) and the only one who didn’t talk to cops gave birth to Tyler at 18…

        It’s not exactly a stretch to be concerned their children would eventually grow up into pedophiles themselves.

        They’d have been doing this regardless of if trump was elected.

        They were doing this before trump was elected. Boebart was elected before trump.

        https://www.businessinsider.com/lauren-boebert-grandmother-son-baby-2023-6

        Lauren Boebert became a grandmother at 36 years old…

        Does that sound crazy?

        That made her mom a Great-Grandma at 54 years old.

        That’s my entire point, this shit is generational. They’re gonna keep raising kids who become parents before legal adults. And when that norm is so consistently broken, virtually every other line regarding age is as well. As is the line between adults and children.

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            I shouldn’t have said “most”…

            But all of the numbers involved are a lot higher than reported, so it is hard to tell.

            However, that was a bit of a tangent.

            The broader picture is that family on both sides have normalized treating teenagers as adults.

            I’m not sure what the ages are for the Tyler and his baby momma, but I believe he was like highschool senior and the girl was a freshman. Dating alone that’s a weird age gap, he knocked her up during the school year, a pregnancy takes 9 months…

            I’m not saying so much an abused kid becomes an abuser.

            I’m saying that pedophiles raise pedophiles. Because in that household the line between adult and child aren’t what’s normal or legal. They might have been fine with their son and that girl having sex in their house whenever,because to his parents, 14 and 17 is “grown” and ready to start their own family if they want.

            They truly believe it’s ok and they’re old enough.

            And that leads to even more teenage pregnancies and great-grandmas in their 50s

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    Pedo Party, through and through. Every single one of them (and on the rare chance they aren’t, they are certainly ok with pedophilia).

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    This article says he was 18 at the time and the charges involve a video. If he and his slightly younger girlfriend recorded themselves having sex, that’s a different story than most people would assume from the headline.

    Other news stories about him suggest he’s an asshole, and his parents are obviously assholes, but we should not condemn teenagers as pedophiles for having sex with similar-age teenagers.

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      He had sex with a 17-year-old, recorded it, then shared it online

      He created, then distributed child porn. No way around that one since Romeo and Juliet laws definitely do not protect creating child porn

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      His charges include sexual exploitation of a child and child exploitation with intent to “deal in, sell or distribute… any sexually exploitative material,”

      Similar age is one thing. “Deal in, sell, or distribute…” is quite a bit more.

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        “Distribute” could mean “show to any person”, even with the consent of all involved when one of them is underage. These laws weren’t designed for teenagers with smartphones.

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          a video shared on social media showed him having sex with a 17-year-old girl.

          Even if he just turned 18 (and there are Romeo and Juliet laws protecting that), that is such a profoundly stupid idea. It’s already crass sharing it with a few friends, but you posted it online? Idiot.