Here’s a NYT story on the subject from a couple of months ago. It’s definitely an article you have to stop and take breaks from. Soldiers claim that abuse was happening on base and that they were told to ignore it.

There’s a similar situation with American allies in Afghanistan, unfortunately. In one case an officer literally kept a boy chained to his bed to use as a sex slave. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/…

^ exactly. you can be a victim and a piece of shit all at one time, people tend to forget.

Exactly. Just listen to him speak. He’s a fuckin kid. He needs to know what he did was wrong, but the adults he was in care of? jesus christ. The girls aren’t the only ones being exploited here, that’s for sure.

At 15, if he was luring underage girls to perform sex acts on himself and adults, he is also a victim of sexual exploitation by those adults. No matter how much he enjoyed himself or how eager he was to take part.

I mean, yeah he is an asshole and deserves to be punished, but it’s kind of hard to look past the fact that he is 15 while the co-conspirators are 22 and 27 years old. Are we really supposed to believe that he is the “prime mover”?

I am not sure I can look entirely past his age here. It’s fully possible that he’s been groomed and used by two adults to act as a lure on their behalf, whether he realizes that or not.

Somebody please tell Azealia Banks she is not nearly famous enough or talented enough to pull off this unhinged rap diva routine.

He’s always been whiny. But The Hateful Eight is getting crazy good reviews. So as long as his movies continue to be good I can just ignore him and watch his movies.

I know nothing about these people and always have a 3 second reset when I have to tell myself it’s not David Foster Wallace gossip...

Dude stole from older, richer, whiter guys. It’s like the only thing a guy in his position could do that will land him in serious shit. Allegedly.

everybody has answered your question about the logistics of how they ended up in monaco with him... but my opinion while reading this is that most of what daniel has done was to be able to see his kids. most of what kelly has done was to spite daniel.

god my allegiance has swung back and forth between kelly and daniel so many times over the course of all of this. but this seems to be the right move by the judge

um the best part is Amanda Bynes’ response.

I dunno, I think that when you spend over a decade very publicly throwing your career down the drain, getting arrested for multiple DUIs and drug possession, refusing to complete your very lenient community service sentences despite getting multiple extensions, get multiple jail sentences(without serving any real time…

Meh I found it funny, she was always claiming exhaustion kept her from work or hospitalized her when it was actually drus so it stands to reason that someone would make a joke even if it’s kinda old news.

Yeah I’m not dismissing predatory behavior that does happen to intoxicated women which is obviously rape... but sometimes drunk sex is just that. Drunk sex.

Yeah, let’s play the game of racializing music (and yes I know it’s a “real” construct, but I’m doubling down on your fuck off to Bronson). I’m pretty sure TV on the Radio, that “white people music” band, might object as well...

Yes. Which is actually even more significant.

So I guess that also makes her Roald Dahl’s granddaughter?