1) You'd think a defense would start with rebutting how RC admitted possessing CP to the police in January 2016. There are defenses (coercion for one) but we're supposed to overlook that AND entertain an uncredited/3rd party source claiming that he'd been taken unaware by network hacking, if regrets were honest?
2) The court docket showed CP charges for 2015... and 2017. Network hacking went on unaware over years while police were investigating?
3) Extreme reactions are common in these cases, people guilty of CP charges frequently kill themselves to avoid the consequences. There's also a denial strategy so common it's named DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim And Offender), stuff like "the kid came on to me." Of course RC's charges had indirect victims so it would depend on blaming a "mystery hacker". We'd have to trust a coincidence that he mistakenly admitted to it, AND the exculpatory evidence conveniently isn't credited and only his lawyer knows it but couldn't show it, AND a person with legit denials killed himself not to avoid prison but because of lacking money to defend. (We're talking about a network engineer who afforded a fursuiting hobby, and it's not hard to get $25,000 on credit, mortgaging etc with a solid case.)
4) I talked to a source for thousands of RC's private messages and looked at some, and chatted some other people who were contacted because they had high profiles, and had other sources close to RC too. I looked for evidence of cyberbullying affecting him and found none (his profiles were closed before this was well known.) A few answers people reported getting from the DA's office and court clerks (and a couple of lawyers) about those charges were dubious because the DA isn't likely to give unofficial info and the lawyers (cold called) likely barely looked at documents. Some of their info about charges was contradicted by Boozy Badger who was familiar with this.
That's why I dismissed doubts that were being shared as irresponsible conspiracy theories that shouldn't be published, but that's just an opinion for a comment now. I suspect the regret in the headline was about facing the inevitable.
1) You'd think a defense would start with rebutting how RC admitted possessing CP to the police in January 2016. There are defenses (coercion for one) but we're supposed to overlook that AND entertain an uncredited/3rd party source claiming that he'd been taken unaware by network hacking, if regrets were honest?
2) The court docket showed CP charges for 2015... and 2017. Network hacking went on unaware over years while police were investigating?
3) Extreme reactions are common in these cases, people guilty of CP charges frequently kill themselves to avoid the consequences. There's also a denial strategy so common it's named DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim And Offender), stuff like "the kid came on to me." Of course RC's charges had indirect victims so it would depend on blaming a "mystery hacker". We'd have to trust a coincidence that he mistakenly admitted to it, AND the exculpatory evidence conveniently isn't credited and only his lawyer knows it but couldn't show it, AND a person with legit denials killed himself not to avoid prison but because of lacking money to defend. (We're talking about a network engineer who afforded a fursuiting hobby, and it's not hard to get $25,000 on credit, mortgaging etc with a solid case.)
4) I talked to a source for thousands of RC's private messages and looked at some, and chatted some other people who were contacted because they had high profiles, and had other sources close to RC too. I looked for evidence of cyberbullying affecting him and found none (his profiles were closed before this was well known.) A few answers people reported getting from the DA's office and court clerks (and a couple of lawyers) about those charges were dubious because the DA isn't likely to give unofficial info and the lawyers (cold called) likely barely looked at documents. Some of their info about charges was contradicted by Boozy Badger who was familiar with this.
That's why I dismissed doubts that were being shared as irresponsible conspiracy theories that shouldn't be published, but that's just an opinion for a comment now. I suspect the regret in the headline was about facing the inevitable.