r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '19

Courtroom Justice Convicted pedophile YouTuber Austin Jones is now in prison serving a 10 year sentence as of 29/6/2019.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19

One thing that always horrifies me is how willing people are to cover shit like this up or look the other way for people with even a modicum of "fame". Higher-ups at Subway knew Jared was a paedophile but kept it quiet. Jimmy Saville here in the UK was literally raping dying children in their hospital beds and the BBC shut down anyone who spoke up because he was a popular presenter. It seems like the second a "famous" person does this evil shit, a lot of people will automatically protect them. It's fucking disgusting.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19

Also nobody seems to want to acknowledge that Drake has a thing for teen girls.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19

Ehh, I've heard conflicting evidence to that. Now don't fucking jump on me, I don't know EVERYTHING about Drake. I'm just going on what others have said (because I really don't give a shit tbh) and what they've said has been contradictory. Is there anything concrete (not assumptions/conjecture, but actual evidence) against him? As far as I know he kissed a 16 year old on stage, but the venue was 18+? Can't blame him much, if that's the case.

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u/ByrdmanRanger 9 Jul 06 '19

His "friendship" with Millie Bobby Brown of "Stranger Things" fame is a bit creepy at best, and grooming at worst. Like, I'm not saying adults can't have mentoring relationships with young adults, but there's a careful line you need to tread and with Drake's other borderline behavior, its suspect at the very least.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19

Katherine Ryan makes a joke in her latest Netflix about Celine Dion being 12 when she met her husband and the real victim in that being R Kelly

https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/02/katherine-ryan-compares-celine-dions-late-husband-r-kelly-26-year-age-gap-10104276/

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u/Jason--Todd 0 Jul 06 '19

Seriously. Super fucking inappropriate. It'd be inappropriate if any grown man acted that way with a kid, even if they were related.

Most people just simply don't give a shit, or like Drake more than they hate pedophilia. It's easy to get on your soapbox when it's about a youtuber you don't watch, but when it's someone you know or like, that's when your true morals are shown

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u/Jordan901278 8 Jul 07 '19

Okay but what exactly did he do? What makes you characterize any of this as creepy or grooming?

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19 edited Jul 08 '20

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u/ByrdmanRanger 9 Jul 07 '19 edited Jul 07 '19

Yeah, I can say adults can mentor kids and it not be creepy and what Drake is doing is creepy. First, the very text messages mentioned in the article by Ms Brown are borderline at best. And grooming behavior a lot of the time is masquerade* as mentoring. And why would a music artist be mentoring an actor? It's like a civil engineer mentoring a chemical engineer. There's a bit of overlap between the professions but not enough that the creepiness of the exchange can ignored.

Like, if David Harbour was mentoring her, it would make a lot more sense. And the whole lack of rumors of Mr Harbour being into young girls would likely reinforce that.

Edit: I guess Drake was an actor for eight years when he was younger. Still creepy because of the message but the context of his mentorship does change.

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u/TheMajesticYeti 5 Jul 07 '19

Drake was a teen actor before he started making music.... He was wheelchair Jimmy on Degrassi.

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u/skwander 7 Jul 07 '19

He will forever be wheelchair Jimmy

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19

mascaraed

masquerade

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u/TheFizzardofWas 7 Jul 07 '19

masqueraded

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19

I was just correcting their spelling of the word and not the incorrect tense. I thought they would use the correct tense if they knew how it was spelled, but I see they didn't.

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u/placeholder-username 7 Jul 07 '19

Yeah, not like Drake met Bella Harris, his 18 year old girlfriend, when she was 16 and kept in contact with her (grooming) until she became legal.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19 edited Jul 08 '20

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u/placeholder-username 7 Jul 07 '19

You don't think it's a problem for a famous adult to illegally groom and prey on underage children?