In this day and age, people are always trying to come up with any excuse possible to escape from having to take responsibility for their own actions. One such example of this is the case of a London Ontario man who has attempted to blame his possession of child pornography on alternative forms of media such as comic books and both PC and video games.
The London Free Press describes this sick bastards comments as follows:
Admitting he possessed child pornography, a London man said yesterday he lived “in a closed box” of friendless fantasy fuelled by video games, his computer and comic books.
“I’d work, come home . . . lock myself in my apartment…”
After a difficult childhood in foster care, separated from his siblings, his client became a truck driver who lived by himself in squalor and clinical depression, Squire said. “He was in a black hole . . . a strange sort of world his computer created.” — via GamePolitics
Situations like this make me wonder if the defendant concocted a story like this on his own, or if it was fed to him by a lawyer. Regardless, there has never been a concrete link shown between video games and pornographic material of the underage variety. I hope they throw the book at this guy, just to make an example of him.
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