Colombia's Medellín declares war on sex tourism after US citizen found with two little girls at a hotel

https://lemmy.ml/post/14274341

Colombia's Medellín declares war on sex tourism after US citizen found with two little girls at a hotel - Lemmy

The man, who has been identified as [full name], was discovered thanks to an individual who alerted the police that he was with the two girls at the Gotham Hotel, which is located nearby Lleras Park. Although he was arrested and detained for 12 hours, authorities eventually released him because he had not been caught in the act of sexually abusing the girls. He was released on Friday, and boarded a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. An image of his passport, including his data and photo, has been posted to social media after details of his case came to light.

Maybe giving out his full name without him being caught doing anything illegal nor contacting him to get his version if the story is a little fucked up, El pais

You don’t do that if you’re not 100% sure

I always find not travelling to regions known for sex tourism then being caught in a hotel room with 11 & 12 year old children really helps to maintain my reputation of not being a paedophile.

But you do you.

Chances are pretty high
Not really comparable between the media feeding frenzy surrounding the McCann disappearance and a US sex tourist being caught in a hotel with 2 children.

I just picked the first one when you google “media ruined life”

There’s plenty of examples, pick your favorite

Again, not really comparable.

He is not someone like the guy framed by all the Reddit imbecilic sluths water the Boston marathon bombings, nor is he like Christopher Jefferies, accused by the media of murdering one of his tenants, just because he’s a bit eccentric.

The guy was caught in a hotel room with children in an area known for sex tourism & he chose to bolt the country after his arrest.

Not exactly the “smoke without fire” examples that you could scour the internet all day long for.

If you don’t want your name released after being arrested in a hotel with local children entirely unrelated to you, then maybe don’t invite local children up to your hotel and be getting arrested.

Not comparable

It’s a matter of principle, pick any of hundreds of examples if you want a comparison

Again, not comparable

Some people

I’m not the one defending paedophiles.
You’re an idiot
This comment gives me hope. I hate all the reddit kneejerk reactionaries. Sure, he may be a scumbag, but perhaps we should make sure beyond a reasonable doubt first.

Travelling overseas to an area rife with sex trafficking and getting caught in a hotel with 2 children he has absolutely no relation to is to you not beyond a reasonable doubt?

As I’ve said elsewhere, consider that you’ve said nothing of any concern for those children, about the poverty they very likely live in, nor for the sex workers who are being the brunt of the fallout from this.

Your concern is all on the paedo sex tourist caught in a hotel with 2 children.

If I had to pick which person is exhibiting behavior in a discussion where one side is playing devil’s advocate for a dude who had 2 small children in his hotel room in an area known for kidnapping and child sex abuse, and another is saying the obvious despite not technically having strong evidence beyond the previously stated, my finger’s on the guy that doesn’t understand burden of proof.
Ill let you simmer that burden of proof comment real quick

The proof is the article, the burden of proof to provide a comparable case of someone who happened to be doing the most suspicious thing possible and was crucified by the media, yet turned out to be innocent, is on you.

There’s confusion. I’ve maintained that to me, the goalpost is conviction. I cited an article that’s less damning for sure but I still motivate my goalpost by principles, not examples. It’s simpler to rely on an already established baseline, which is the justice system’s convictions, and I’m okay if that means that sometimes, a very plausibly guilty man benefits from undeserved anonimity

But you know, every time I say that homeowners should indeed face jailtime for shooting a fleeting burglar in the back I face the same people with the same arguments

Homeowners who murder people should be thrown in jail.

Pedophiles should be thrown in jail.

Very easy and simple to say.

I don’t understand how you gotta keep running defense for pedophiles.

We all know exactly why this user feels the need to defend pedophiles. We’re just too polite to say it.

I understand the burden of proof but the guy isn’t in a court.

He travelled to an area known for sex trafficking and was caught in a hotel room with 2 children he had no earthly connection to and was arrested by police. He decided to bolt the country knowing what he had done was wrong.

It amazing how you keep jumping to different arguments defending the guy when you realise just how fucking tenuous your point is.

Why don’t you fuck off back to where all the jailbait subs disappeared to and strip trying to turn this place into a paedo meet up, you fucking nonce
You are attacking civilized people who are trying to tell you that a lynching crowd is not the society.
So where’s the lynching crowd aside from in all your imaginations?

Where apes are claiming due process is not necessary where it’ll either yield the same result or they are wrong.

You are literally fighting mechanism which will help only innocent.

Y’know, it’s fucking crazy how an innocent Black man’ll get slabbed out by pigs and hordes of redditor crackers will all in unison “well, he must’ve done something to deserve it”, “he was no angel”, “he had a drug charge 15 years ago so that makes him free game to outright murder in the street” but as soon as it’s a cracker pedophile y’all out here “pwease no lynch mob guise 😢😢😢😢”

You peckerwoods sicken me.

Do you realize how certain one has to be to accuse a person of such a crime?

Would you want to live in a world where 1 of 100 considered guilty is innocent?

Would you feel the same way if you’d be that?

Do you realize how probabilities work?

If something has a 1 in a 1000 probability, then from time to time it happens.

And then the final question - do you consider it too much of a bother to go through investigative process with civilized legal proceedings to confirm what is true and reduce the probability of a mistake?

“Blah blah blah I’m defending paedophiles”

That’s what your wall of text is saying.

My wall of text is saying that you want innocent people to be condemned, fighting against failsafe for that.

Thus you are a criminal and should hang.