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Johnny2X2X

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3. That would be awful

Reply to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Wed Jul 21, 2021, 03:08 PM

Jul 2021

A friend used to be a local prosecutor and he specialized in prosecuting crimes against children. He knew a guy in law enforcement whose job it was to watch and catalog the child porn they confiscated and try to ID the victims in it. That guy killed himself in his early 40s.

You can only see so much of the worst things and not be damaged.

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