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You’re also making an assumption that it was on a platform - OnlyFans - and not perhaps sending money to an impressionable young person he met via a dating app. Again, I wouldn’t consider these actions equivalent morally.

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We do not know. Judgement without knowledge is ignorant. Are you happy to base your judgements on ignorance?

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This is what we know
Hue Edwards is on 430K per year
The Suns story said the person selling the photos was 17
This person now in their 20s says it is rubbish

Now we also know if this person could prove they were 17 the potential earner is absolutely massive. The story, possible court cases. Yet they say the age part is not true.

What does that tell us?

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Spare me. Your judgements are based on exactly the same (absence of) facts.

You are giving him the benefit of the doubt at every step.

I’m more than happy to acknowledge there’s a far seedier narrative out there than the one we will no doubt get spoon fed by the media trying to rehabilitate him onto our screens.

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So have they checked his computers and phones? Yes or No?
The mother reported she had been shown a picture and had been told of the requests. That was a specific allegation. How is that not evidence enough to do a search?

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What is your point? People are free to make moral judgement about what he was doing but it appears it was consensual and legal.

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That is my point.

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The person involved (the one in the pictures) said it did not happen how The Sun said so how would that get a warrant? there is no accuser other than keyboard warriors and a lynch mob

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The "victim" did say the story was "rubbish", but that has finally been revealed to be partly or completely untrue. Are you going to take the word of somebody who is said to be a crack cocaine addict?

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Starting at the end, it tells us the youngster hasn’t turned over any evidence to the police that would indicate a crime or made a complaint (in line with their statement). In the absence of either of those there’d be no lawful basis to seize any of HE’s devices. So the police are where they are.

If the 17 year old registered on onlyfans (or a dating app) pretending to be 18 at first contact I’m not sure how that’s potentially a great earner (in court or in the press) for them regardless of when messages became photos. They could prove that they were 17 and their first act was deception. At this point they are an unreliable witness.

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The accuser is the MOTHER. The "victim" wouldn't want an investigation and is likely to deny everything. Just as in the example I gave of the case where the victim of a mugging refused to cooperate.

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I see we’ve reached that inevitable point in the thread where you continue making the same baseless, circular arguments, except with increasing use of capitalisation and imbecilic rhetorical questions.

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You do know how much Tabloids pay for stories like this don't you? or does that not suit your poisonous agenda ?

Spit venom when you have a base to do so and I will join you if that time comes

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The Sun is saying they never said he did anything illegal.

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I wonder how much the MOTHER was PAID for the story hmmm

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We know the age was 17 - 19, so the transaction may not have been illegal.

But you bring up a great point. Only Fans, Web Cams and general porn sites are all readily available. And (although I don’t subscribe) I would expect them all to be much less expensive than £35K. So why this arrangement??