Let me check quickly and see if I can find what I read earlier (last year, I think).
EDIT: I did a quick search, NY Post had a story in March 2019. Another story that got some coverage was a 12 year old that took years to recovered after Raniere “joyfully” raped her. There was a Mexican girl, unnamed, who was 15 at the time she had sex with this monster. Stories are easy to find, some news outlets look credible, I searched on “Raniere sex underaged girls”
Maybe, but that’s not what he’s been convicted of - it says “racketeering, sex trafficking, and possession of child porn”. It didn’t have any real detail about the charges. I still think he’s been mostly convicted (in the public mind at least, and probably the jury’s minds as well) of wrongdoing with respect to the women who got branded etc - and that shit was 100% consensual adults. I watched the whole series of The Vow, they never mentioned kids or girls once - they were all grown women.
I’m not saying he’s not a dirtbag, I’m sure he is. But I rather suspect that the sex he had was consensual at the time, they just changed their minds later. Kind of like Harvey Weinstein.
Let me check quickly and see if I can find what I read earlier (last year, I think).
EDIT: I did a quick search, NY Post had a story in March 2019. Another story that got some coverage was a 12 year old that took years to recovered after Raniere “joyfully” raped her. There was a Mexican girl, unnamed, who was 15 at the time she had sex with this monster. Stories are easy to find, some news outlets look credible, I searched on “Raniere sex underaged girls”
Maybe, but that’s not what he’s been convicted of - it says “racketeering, sex trafficking, and possession of child porn”. It didn’t have any real detail about the charges. I still think he’s been mostly convicted (in the public mind at least, and probably the jury’s minds as well) of wrongdoing with respect to the women who got branded etc - and that shit was 100% consensual adults. I watched the whole series of The Vow, they never mentioned kids or girls once - they were all grown women.
I’m not saying he’s not a dirtbag, I’m sure he is. But I rather suspect that the sex he had was consensual at the time, they just changed their minds later. Kind of like Harvey Weinstein.
You and I do not see this the same at all. And that’s OK.