Post by iwatchthenews on Oct 2, 2024 13:17:50 GMT -5
I also love how the detective says “a 12 year old” the entire time… probably fishing for the “no she was 14!” Response which Jeff gave him a couple times lol. Jeff confirms he knew the 14 age with the response
Yeah, a simple neat little trick that totally got him. Not only does he show he knew the purported age, he demonstrates that, despite other things he says, he *does* understand that boinking kids is wrong- otherwise, why would he emphasise the fact that she was 14 not 12, and react with a kind of revulsion to the age of 12?
(Incidentally, this got me thinking about something. We've seen various preds on the show say that people lie on the Internet all the time, about things like age. That is true, to be fair. I wonder if the best defence available to them, assuming they haven't said anything else to contradict it, is to genuinely try and persuade the court/cops that they didn't believe the person was underage. It's like, travelling to meet someone they believed to be a minor is a crime - but what if they say they never believed that? They thought they were travelling to meet an adult? Again, the likelihood of them having said other things that'd make clear what they really thought- it's high. Also, I guess that's why organisations like PJ made sure to have decoys repeatedly emphasise the age and ascertain, to an extent, whether their chat buddy understood and accepted it...excuse my rambling!)
“I pretended to be interested to meet Chris Hansen, I knew it was a decoy” is another defense . I remember they said tcap ended partially because so many people were actually pretending to be interested just to meet Chris.
But I agree with you the one defense “I thought it was an adult that was lying” is an interesting argument . It could be true but you have to win over a jury which is going to be very very hard
