• BearerOfPickles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    What am I missing here? This guy - I assume he’s an American, where the age of consent is 18, just admits to what is sexual assault by the straight up law like it’s exculpatory? The teacher part is just a red herring. I know I’m drunk but Jesus what a self own. It’s too perfect I don’t want it to be a bit

  • cmhickman358 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    If you listen closely, you will be able to hear the sounds of thousands of “Shoot your local pedo” bumper stickers being scratched off lifted pick up trucks

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    i love how in his head he was the victim in his SA because he was a teacher. he thinks somehow this is what gave them the ability to arrest him for assaulting a child.

  • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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    You know, it’s pretty messed up that the Virginia offender registry just shows you this guy’s address.

    Like, he’s a bad guy, but surely there’s a better solution that doesn’t just allow any random in the world to go to www.vspsor.com and find him so easily with a search for Christopher Ritchie.

  • i_drink_bleach [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    At age 22, I engaged in a[n] consensual encounter with a 16 year old

    No, you {assaulted} a 16 year old. This is the most basic math. 18=16+2. 16 < 18. Under 18 means non-consensual age. Non-consensual age means {assault}. It’s not fucking hard. Admitting you’re an {assaulter} for trump is not the power move you think it is. Straight to jail. If I had my way it would be straight to the fucking wall.

    But of course, somehow you’re the victim.

    Edit: Removed a specific, applicable word because auto-mod was not happy.

  • SwitchyandWitchy [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    My friends and I thought the senior dating the sophomore was creepy. And this man wants people to think it’s okay to triple that age gap. AND HE WAS A TEACHER. wall

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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.

      • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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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.

      • Blakey [he/him]@hexbear.net
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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.

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    My shirt saying “I support paedophiles for 𝓐 𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓾𝓵𝓪𝓻 𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓬𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓸𝓷” has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.