Quote:It's hard to imagine why some people do what they do.  I'm going to use a qualifier and I hope that people won't take this the wrong way.  At least this involved minors that were close to the age of being adults.  I'm not saying that it makes it right, but when I see the charge of "child p" I often think of very young children.  I'm not saying that one is worse than the other (exploiting children is despicable in my mind), but in all fairness, his victims had a pretty good idea of what they were doing and played a role in it.  At least that's how I see it in the news reports.

 

Again, I'm not defending him in any way, but I'm willing to bet that a 16 or 17 year old girl has a pretty good idea of what they are doing for money.

 

I see your point, but it's wrong on a different level. Instead of exploiting innocents and betraying their trust in adults, he took advantage of children with a messed up notion of sexuality. It can be easy to say they knew what they were up to, but what kind of history must a young girl have to lead her into situations like this.

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