Did not break into it, he was grooming her since she was 10-11 years old. He met her online, went to visit her to "meet his friend" when her mother wasn't home, gave the child alcohol to drink and then committed the crime. All 3 counts were from the same visit.
What the hell. This is literally the kind of thing your parents thought would happen if you told people who you were online back in the early 2000's. This is nightmare fuel.
Our parents thought that because it was happening. As a person who grew up on the internet, people were very polarized by me openly stating I was 12 with some people saying āoh sorry I have to stop talking to you now bc I donāt feel comfortable being friends with a 12 yoā and the ones who stuck around all wanted to ādateā me and see pictures of me naked.
Happened to me and it was a very sad moment. I had a close online friend and Iād been talking to them for years. One day I uploaded a dumb lolcat meme saying āI cameā and they asked if I knew what it meant. I didnāt. I thought it was just an absurd joke about a cat saying it had arrived somewhere. I donāt know how they caught on from that meme but they quizzed me on whether I knew what it meant and I said I had no idea but that it was a just a dumb joke. He said I must be really young based on that and I said no and that I was older. He was quite unfathomably angry at me and then he said he couldnāt talk to a ten year old then blocked me. I remember I was crying and eventually got very very angry as I always hated being judged for my age but now I realise he was right. This happened during the days of early Space Station 13 and he blocked me from his server. Unfortunately his server was the only one that wasnāt a SomethingAwful goon one and the goon ones sucked. Couldnāt play the game properly anymore. Those fucking goons ruined the gameā¦ pricks.
Something very similar happened to me. I met some random dude on a chat room, we shared our poetry back and forth. We were both extremely depressed. It went on this way for months, maybe longer, and somehow it finally came out that I was only 12 or 13. He was so mad. He was in his 20s. He felt like a creep and blocked me. At the time, I felt so guilty ā I still do, but Iām also glad he did that and wish him nothing but the best. I hope heās doing well now.
In 2005 I met a 33 year old man online (on YouTube lol) when I was 13. I live in California, he lived in London, weād talk daily, and he even called me long distance. I told him I was 15 and he gradually started sending me dirty messages. Eventually he found out that I was 13 and not 15 like I said and he got so mad. Like speaking to a 15 year old like that is any better š
Why don't you consider coming back as goonstation is no line THE servers that people play on, only one of the main ones. Plus, servers such as /tg/station and goonstation have distanced themselves a fair bit from the origins really only keeping the name.
Though I can't speak on how good any server is except Paradise as that's the only one I've played on. Paradise has also gotten rid of the old admin team that had gained them such a reputation and got rid of the metacliques. Overall, Paradise is a nice server.
The problem isnāt the goonstations themselves or their players but rather the changes they made to the base game. I played the classic SS13 when it just began and when all of the confidential stuff was only known by a select few players. It was very fun back then. There were two griefers known as HELLISH FLAMEZ and Animay3 who would join servers and immediately destroy everything. I once almost took one of them down and I would have been a hero but they managed to macro me as I tased them. I was stoked at the time. Honestly, within five minutes of these guys joining, the whole server was on fire.
Anyway, there were some other updates after that including a new map which had newer features but not too many to make the game unrecognisable. The goon maps were just like an entirely different game and it ruined it for me. My favourite server had a TARDIS on it which was cool and this was the one I was banned from.
I recently met a friend online who i later discovered was a minor.we were getting close,i shared some of my drawings.later she complaimed she was having math problems and wanted me to teach her it. Curiosity got me as i asked for her age to see what kind of material she needs.When she told me she was 17 I noped out,told her was too old for her to be even her friend,much less her assistant.Also that i would be giving a very bad example if i hanged out with her.
Since then i always in my messages tell my age,just as a precaution.
I don't think being friends with a 17yo is wrong as long as it's entirely platonic. I was in a house share until a couple of years ago and was living with an 18yo guy for a little while at the age of 29. We weren't the best of friends or anything but we still hung out sometimes as a group and shared jokes and whatever.
As a group sure but individually 1 on 1 It is wrong.Adults have different ways of talking and perspectives that teens simply don't have.They have jobs,philosophies that arent compatible with what teens consume.There is also the power imbalance,that anything that comes out of my mouth is legit just because of my age
It's perfectly normal for teenagers to hang out with adults, though? Obviously, there's some weird situations but there is nothing inherently wrong with a 17 year old hanging out with people older than them?
I mean, they said they were getting close, presumably they were having some feelings that would in fact be inappropriate. They did the right thing to shut it down for themselves if they were experiencing any kind of attraction/interest.
Tbf I'd still do that today.. I don't want to be posting something referencing an adult topic and be accused of grooming a minor. I have no interest in sharing anything online with anyone under 18 years old, I would prefer if everyone was over 21 but 18+ seems reasonable enough.
The MSN chat rooms were absolutely full of nonces. I used to think it was funny flirting with older men as a 14 year old, it was only later I realised... why were they flirting back?!
Nothing as creepy as yours. But in the early days of the internet, my Mum would take me and a friend into her office on the weekend while she worked and we played on the internet. We were chatting to one guy for a few weeks, we had been asking questions about schools in the US, and asking if it was like the movies. His latest reply mentioned that he was 36. We were disappointed we werenāt talking to another teen but it was time to go home, so we logged off.
The next time I went in to her office, he had messaged saying how rude we were for not replying and that it was just so bad of us to stop talking to him. He canāt believe we were like that, he thought we were better than that.
I remember feeling so guilty, I would think at night of what I could reply to make it better, I could say I was on holiday, I could say someone died? I really felt sick about it.
My mum stopped working weekends and I eventually got over it. But it wasnāt until years later that I realised he knew how young we were and he tried to guilt me. And it had worked! I wasnāt a super obedient child but it had worked and I wanted to make him happy and not mad at me.
Oh god, I havenāt even scratched the surface tbh. Honestly, maybe Iāll write it all out someday soon and make it into a video. Some of the comments they made still haunt me to this day.
But yeah, exactly! These people are incredibly manipulative and the only reason I never got into serious trouble (didnāt share pics or address) was because I was always the one in our social group that would hesitate and back out of things. There were two other 12 yo in that social group and we all got into it by meeting each other roleplaying on WoW; it was like bait tbh because I was excited to meet other 12 yoās. It was a guild full of pedo men and 15 yo boys who aspired to be pedos.
That happened to me too and honestly I hope some of those people are in prison now. I actually had some fucked up conversations with at least one admitted pedophile. I seriously thought about turning them in at the time but I didn't know how to go about that or how much trouble that would cause me so I just left it alone. I'm a guy btw so it wasn't just girls getting that.
I remember being in some very early kids chat room and literally posting fart jokes with another "child", then the "child" I was posting shit with dm'd me asking if I want to do "cybersex"
I freaked out closed the thing straight away and never went on it again. The terrifying innocence of the early internet man. "Kids chatroom" wtf were they thinking
It was happening. So many inappropriate chat rooms with adults knowingly hitting on preteens. And not just like 18-20 year olds, which is still bad. Iām talking like men in their 60s. And those are just the ones who were being honest about their age and not pretending to be a young person too.
Now that I have my own child, I wince at the memories of it and Iām just thankful that nothing more than gross messages happened. Makes me want to move to the moon with my daughter.
I mean it's true. Happened to me lol. Never turned into anything in person but yes if you were openly a preteen on the internet and in open social spaces you were getting pedos messaging you. Didn't take long before I started pretending to be an adult instead because I still wanted to be in those spaces without being creeped on, which I'm sure wasn't healthy either in the end.
Next time you feel like telling one of us old people "ok boomer" you might think about this and realise we're not as stupid and old as you might think.
I canāt help but notice that an awful lot of the boomers who said going on a date with a stranger you met on the internet would get you chopped up in a basement ended up basing their entire political identity around an anonymous 4chan shitposterās cryptic nonsense, though, so I wouldnāt get too high on that generational supply of internet savvy.
I'm not actually a boomer, I'm a GenX... I am the "tech savvy". And the boomer advice is still good and true. Also, wait until you find out the "4chan cryptic nonsense" is actually, probably true. What a day that will be.
The amount of pedos I met online on the 90-00 era of AOL chat rooms would boggle your mind. I never misrepresented my age, all I had to do was say 11f and older men would flock to me
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u/MadNhater 5d ago edited 4d ago
Broke into her home and raped her 3 times at that. This is fucked up.
Edit: he didnāt break in. She invited him