• thantik@lemmy.world
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    According to the article, his lawyer states he was just essentially the landlord where a custodial dispute happened. So it sounds like something adjacent to the crime, such as lying to one of the parents about having seen the kid or something. Honestly, my parents got in custodial disputes, and I’ve even had one myself - I was so distraught over it that my emotions almost landed me in a similar situation. Luckily everything resolved itself (my wife thought I was having an affair due to her “friend” trying to convince her of such), but custodial disputes are not anywhere near ‘child sex trafficking’ levels of evil here…

    It’s also not surprising at all that none of the comments thus far have shown any level of critical thought about the article either…

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      You really stretched that one line into an entire hypothetical defense for a guy, while there’s literally zero evidence of any of that presented in the article.

      Bad troll.

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        Did you miss this line?

        “Mr. Marta had nothing to do with custodial kidnapping,” Scott Rosenblum told the outlet. “He was essentially a landlord.”

        With only that to go on…there’s some level of guessing at what that even means. You can only try and figure it out on hypothetical application.

        These places are DYING to put the words “Qanon”, “sex trafficking”, “sound of freedom” into an article for SEO purposes. You should start being critical of your sources rather than just taking things for face value.

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          He’s a lawyer. It’s his entire job to lie and get his client off the charges. Do you actually believe a word that comes out of a defense lawyers mouth?

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            My wife got arrested for DUI when she was having a brain bleed and needed to be taken to a hospital, not a jail…but pigs are gonna be pigs, and a defense lawyer is the one who got it taken care of, so yes. Immediately jumping to “there’s a defense lawyer, you can’t believe him!”…is…kind of stupid. You know people get arrested, sued, etc for all sorts of things that aren’t true right?

            Her defense lawyer ended up being a piece of shit in the end, sure – but we have a justice system for a reason ya know.

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      It makes me sad yo see this down voted with so little actual engagement with the content. Come on, Lemmy, you’re better than that!

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        I’ve learned that they really aren’t. I have seen this everywhere all week. All of the extremists of reddit seem to be the ones who hopped over, and they’re just as bad as qtards. Everyone is a troll, everyone is a bad faith actor to them, etc. Pretty much decided at this point that it’s just not worth attempting to engage with people online at all any more.

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      This! Read the article, guys! I hate QAnon as much as the rest but this guy was a “essentially a landlord” in a custody battle and, unless new facts come to light, it appears his part isn’t nearly as heinous as this clickbait title wants you to believe!

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      Sir, I am from reddit - It’s bold of you to assume i read the article

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        I wasn’t gonna read the article either tbh; but I embarrassed myself by spouting untrue information based off of the title of an article and being corrected publicly a few months ago so I’m trying to be better about making sure the information I “know” is correct.