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'DaddyOFive' YouTubers sentenced to five years probation for child neglect
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Messofanego
Banned
It's bloody shameful.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
This isn't the worst part but how the fuck was this channel even allowed on YouTube.
Like, what the fuck.
Like, what the fuck.
Bigboss242
Banned
Welp this world is fucked what kind of justice is this.
Messofanego
Banned
There are a lot of fans of child abuse.
Yeah, moderation seems practically non-existent outside basic automation via tagged words etc.
fabricated backlash
Member
Because we live in a world where entertainment is more important than empathy. Through the lense of the internet all of this becomes a virtual reality, and people just don't care anymore.
That's why you have morons defend Pewdiepie being a blatant racist. That's why you have people defending this human garbage pile abusing his kids.
Child abuse is obviously ok with advertisers.
But no nipples! Or swearing...
They couldn't even admit responsibility as adults to help these children cope with the abuse they suffered for so long in public, to admit what happened was wrong, and they entered an Alford plea. So in a final act of harming these children they stood up in court and said "we did nothing wrong but sure you got us, bro" and the court essentially agreed and gave them the equivalent of a stern warning.
I hope for the best for all the children involved, and thankfully at least the two who escaped have it better, but they were let down yet again, only by the courts this time.
Oh, and yeah, youtube too. Whatever regulation is coming for youtube, they will damn well deserve it.
I hope for the best for all the children involved, and thankfully at least the two who escaped have it better, but they were let down yet again, only by the courts this time.
Oh, and yeah, youtube too. Whatever regulation is coming for youtube, they will damn well deserve it.
Agent Gibbs
Member
I can't wait for Philip De Franco to do a video on this, he worked hard to get this publicity and worked with others to secure copies of the deleted video's and passed them to Police, just 5 years probation seems exceptionally lenient for what occurred in the video's!
A small morsel of sense seems to be not allowing them any sort of access to Cody and his sister.
For those that haven't seen the video's I'd both recommend and not recommend you watch some of the video's surrounding the case (DeFranco does some great summaries), this shouldn't be swept under the rug but it makes for awful viewing
A small morsel of sense seems to be not allowing them any sort of access to Cody and his sister.
For those that haven't seen the video's I'd both recommend and not recommend you watch some of the video's surrounding the case (DeFranco does some great summaries), this shouldn't be swept under the rug but it makes for awful viewing
CadetMahoney
Member
Yup, i can point to lots of movies where child star's parents could be taken to court for neglect.
Baraka Obama
Banned
It took a while though
A system where winning is more important than justice or the truth
CrunchyFrog
Member
TBH, these kids would likely not have adjusted well to CPS either. As much as I would like to have seen the two do time, at least making an attempt to rehabilitate is probably the better thing to do.
Youtube is so weird about where they draw the line. Anything even mildly pornographic will be instantly removed, but videos of Neo-Nazi propaganda or guys knocking their kids across the room stay up.
Sun Bather
Member
I saw someone called cringe god or something, who re uploaded some of the shit this guy did, and it was extremely disgusting behaviour. Felt like Luka Magnotta lite version of addiction to likes.
Violence Jack
Member
Fucking 5 years probation for child abuse. He should be in jail getting his ass kicked for what he did to those children. No telling how much damage he has done to them mentally.
People continue to do worse things just to be noticed on the internet, not just for money
KernelPanic
Member
Really feels like the world is slowly going to shit. No morals, no one does the right thing anymore.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
This makes me furious. They should be in prison.
Vigilant Walrus
Member
Was it ever different?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
If that's the behavior on video, I don't even want to imagine how bad it could potentially be off-screen.
Rumblebones
Banned
Should've gotten jail time.
One and done.
RumblingRosco
Member
Does child abuse generally result in prison sentences? I'm legitimately not sure if it usually does.
Well, Cody apparently constantly had new bruises across his body each video. So. Yeah.
MugiwaraCole
Member
Some of these popped up on my twitter feed maybe two years back, and my entire TL was trying to figure out what was so funny about them. And they were the relatively tame ones where they were yelling and cursing at their kids and making them cry.
Like, what the fuck? YT pipo be wildin
Like, what the fuck? YT pipo be wildin
Tmartin gets off Scott free after scamming kids out of money, PDP makes anti-Semitic and racist "jokes" and these fucks avoid jail time for blatant, chronic child abuse. It used to be you had to have an Oscar or a Heisman to get away with this shit, just a successful youtube channel now.
Jesus.... Are the kids taken away or are they allowed to keep em? They don't deserve to parent them unless they change their crazy behaviour alot.
Mammoth Jones
Member
Same world. Now fuckwits do it for the "likes".
Makes you wonder how these kids are gonna react and how Cody and Emma are gonna react when they're old enough to actually do something to their father. Hoping we don't hear anything on the news in 5-7 years.
CadetMahoney
Member
I hope this child neglect conviction means they can't get certain jobs and stuff at least.
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