"What Happened with the 14 year-old that got me 5 Years of Prison" - Amos Yee

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So when I was in the United States living in the State of Illinois, I met a 14-year-old girl online. Her name is Brie. Brie was living in Texas.

I would not trust any self-purported female "minors" on the Internet. They are likely law enforcement puppets.

Several times, every day, we would take naked pictures of ourselves and share them with each other. She absolutely loved it. She was always sending me sexual pictures without me asking. Many times she’d beg me to continue sending sexual pictures and messages to her.

While the pictures themselves couldn't cause intrinsic harm (these are normal human body parts - where is the big deal?), sending those pictures is a bad idea based on the extreme legal risks alone.

And even if it was legal, these pictures could still be used for extortion/blackmailing. ("If you don't ..., I will share those pictures with ...") - Although the pictures would have been difficult to link to him if his face wasn't visible.

But one could not possibly be blamed for receiving such pictures.

Now I definitely wasn’t a good boyfriend. I was actually verbally abusive. I’d get incredibly jealous and snap at her when she complimented one of her guy friends for being handsome. [...] So I’d say insecure and verbally abusive things plenty of times throughout our 3-month relationship. Until finally, very wisely, she broke up with me.

Yeah, that's not good, but at least he is honest and remorseful.

About 1 year after my relationship with her ended, I got arrested by the American police. They got me for 17 counts of either child pornography or child grooming charges. And all of those charges came from just the nude pictures we exchanged with each other. To this day, I still have no idea exactly what lead to Brie reporting me to the police.

"She" was likely a law enforcement puppet, though I would expect it to lead to an arrest sooner than a whole year.

Some people might think the 14-year-old faked being my girlfriend and wanted to bait me to do something illegal all along. That’s very likely not true.

I beg to differ. Chris Hansen also used adult theatre students to pose as the 12- to 13-year-olds, which is a covert admission that some "adults" pass off as a "minor", hence the reverse is true too.

I think most likely what happened was we had a genuine relationship for 3 months, broke up.

From what I understand, they never met each other in person, only through text and pictures.

A genuine romantic relationship involves physical touch. Without that, it is just an empty void of unfulfilled desires. No text or picture is a substitute for physical interaction.

This is why I find the ideas of "telephone sex" and "AI girlfriends" incredibly stupid.

Related video by Coach Red Pill (Gonzalo Lira): Why long-distance relationships never work (This is a re-upload. Gonzalo Lira deleted his own uploads in late 2021, on both his "Coach Red Pill" and "Gonzalo Lira" channels.)

And maybe she still held resentment from how badly the relationship ended, some parents or friends found out and then pressured her, and so she eventually reported it to the police.

That could also be. US culture is uniquely hostile to adult-"minor" romance. It's especially bad in California, but also not much better in the rest of the USA:

California - NewgonWiki § Social and legal mine field

I definitely was verbally abusive, unnecessarily insulting and a bad boyfriend. But does that deserve 5 years in prison? Of course not.

Agreed. This is wildly disproportionate, especially if Amos Yee was remorseful.

Both of us exchanging nude pictures and sexting was obviously consensual. Matter of fact the sexting might be the best part of our relationship, that both of us always enjoyed, and yet that was the act I got arrested for.

Indeed, no more intrinsic harm than if two adults did it with each other.

And most of them unlike me, has a child who becomes devastated once their adult pedophile lover is arrested.

If the younger part of the couple was a physically developed teenager, it's by definition not pedophilia.

Unfortunately, the US legal system only distinguishes between "adults" (18+) and "minors" (0-18), disregarding differences in physical maturity. This is also codified in law, see: California - NewgonWiki § Social and legal mine field (I am assuming other states are similar.)

That child will then go through years of therapy, and might even become suicidal. Not because any adult sexually abused them, but because their adult lover they care deeply about is suddenly imprisoned and taken away from them.

And because the legal and mental health system around her does the best to convince her that something horrible was done to her.

See also: Chances are, they'll grow up to hate you. by Kaila Breece from Free Speech Tube.