Blaming videogames for your sins is all the rage, and it's such a hip movement that even dirty pedophiles are doing it! 38-year-old Ontario man Michael Cherry loves him some kiddy porn, but in pleading guilty to possessing the grisly stuff, he offered a most "compelling" explanation.
Cherry has implicated videogames and comic books as contributors to his diseased state of mind, claiming that he lived in a "closed box" and that his "friendless fantasy" was fueled by interactive entertainment. The truck driver also did what many pedophiles do and tried to play the "bad childhood" card, bemoaning a life in foster care and bringing up his apparent clinical depression.
"I'd work, come home . . . lock myself in my apartment..." he laments.
Of course, there's no excuse for downloading child pornography, no matter your background or social standing. It's just sad that excuses are being made, and it's thanks to those out there who have made games easy scapegoats for criminals who wish to shed themselves of any sense of accountability.
The likes of Leland Yee and David Grossman have encouraged scumbags to hide behind videogames, leading to cases such as this. Still, at least Cherry is going where he belongs, and will probably get his own cherry well and truly popped.
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3:00 AM on 07.13.2009
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I'm gonna go play OoT and fap to young Malon.
Also, I really wish there was a better term than 'Child Predator', that just sounds kind of badass. Like they have a scout troupe where kids go off to get their 'Impaled a xenomorph on a pike' badges.
I wonder what game he's going to list. I bet he's going to try the Rapeplay and Chris Handley comic angle.
Kick this guy out of court, he's full of it.
Oh wait, nevermind.
of course it was a crack at mj. How else would his stuff get hits? he has to be current otherwise....
@Sohnvonben - Like he'd get past the title screen!
Goddam paedophiles and their crap excuses at being sick and demented. I pray the Daily Mail doesnt get wind of this.
Also, "friendless fantasy"?? Surely he would fantasize over having friends instead of none at all?
I agree, video games aren't often directly linked to causing paedophilia, but do you know anything about this psychological disorder at all? It's actually not unlikely that people end up paedophile through comics, film and video games. Do you know anything about, say, Japan?
I don't expect good journalism from this place anymore – I come here for the lulz – but sometimes, it just gets annoying...
I'm in awe of your ablity to google.
I wonder if MJ ever played video games? Perhaps that's his excuse for the whole wantingtolooklikeapixietouchingchildrenprescriptionmedsaddiction thing?
Rapelay anyone?
In the American criminal justice system, legal guilt and factual guilt are two very different things.
The country that has the lowest rape stats of most countries? Yeah, I know a little.
I'm sorry Japan, I love you but I've got to differ with you strongly on this one. The whales too. Stop the pedophilia and the whales and I love you long time.
You should see their underage whale porn. Blow holes indeed.
Well played.
I'm not saying that rape stats are high in Japan... just saying that there really are no reliable historical stats.
In regards to blaming games for pedophilia... the predisposition has to be there... though some games may feed the predisposition - but even a subscription to National Geographic magazine could do that.
Hahaha... You're kiding right? Right? TELL ME YOUR KIDDING!!!! D=
@Elsa
I don't know, Japan is such a strange place, but i think Jim knows something about it. Afterall, after japanese, british are the most sexually repressed people in the world.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20090524.gif
also im surprised he didnt blame the media and MTV and all those rock band musicans