• happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      https://www.christopheraldana.com/mystory

      I was born on July 7, 1991, and named [Name #1] after my father. My legal name has never been CJ, which was a childhood nickname derived from being Christopher Jr. Growing up, everyone called me CJ, and the name stuck through high school and college. I stayed in my hometown during college, commuting to classes while working at the Boys and Girls Club and substitute teaching, which kept the nickname CJ a consistent part of my identity.

      On November 11, 2018, I married my husband, [Husband name], and took his last name to honor our union. My legal name changed to [Name #2] by early 2019, reflecting my deep commitment to family, a core value in my life, and as a traditional gesture to my husband. For simplicity in everyday settings, as is common in many bicultural families, I often use [Name #2], while fully embracing the hyphenated [Surname #2] in our cultural context. Those who knew me before my marriage will always know me as [Name #1]. Since November 2018, however, my legal name has been [Name #2]

      Is a legal name change even possible when you’re on a lifelong [violent] sex offender registry? I pulled up his Virginia database registry, which fully checks out, and it’s under his old legal name. Defending paedophilia under a new legal name to obfuscate your past is… man it’d be a shame if someone felt vindictive and had a phone.

      I removed the names that he fully lists on his Proud to be a Paedophile Biography for some reason.

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        I know they aren’t entirely reliable but I ran that bio page through two generative text detectors and they both flagged large sections of it.

        The contrition and acknowledgement of causing harm in his bio is entirely missing from his self-soothing twitter confession.

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      That would require the (now presumably 20-to-30-something) victim to press charges against him and the dysfunctional legal system to care enough to follow through. Like a case doesn’t get opened just because someone publicly confesses to a crime, it requires something to establish that it was even a thing that happened (a police report, a specific currently-still-a-minor suspected victim [which allows the state to open a case on behalf of said victim], a body, a missing person, etc) before anyone might even hypothetically look at it, and even there cops notoriously don’t usually bother unless it’s something high profile or they have an axe to grind with someone.

      I’m sure there are examples of cops just starting from a confession (or alleged confession) and working backwards towards a crime and getting results even in the absence of establishing that any crime took place, but that tends to be a way of harassing minorities or settling personal scores. Remember that cops are both draconian, petty racists and lazy bastards who generally don’t care about the victims they do already know about.

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        He presumably didn’t voluntarily put himself on the registry. He was caught and charged. Otherwise it wouldn’t have been classified in any way, he wouldn’t have been sentenced, and he wouldn’t be on the registry.

        The fact this experience apparently didn’t communicate to him how fucked up this is is a sad indictment of punitive “justice” systems and should lead us to consider rehabilitative justice. This guy should still be doing the work to reform/rehab himself, not just be back out in society defending his actions.

        • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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          Yeah his registration with that database was updated this year. Someone dropped his mugshot and the record of the conviction / offender registry entry on LinkedIn. He’s registered for life as a violent offender.