Colombia's Medellín declares war on sex tourism after US citizen found with two little girls at a hotel
Colombia's Medellín declares war on sex tourism after US citizen found with two little girls at a hotel
The city’s mayor Federico Gutiérrez announces the six-month suspension of sex work in the neighborhood El Poblado and limits operating hours of the bars and clubs in the area, in which he says sex trafficking is taking place
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The man, who has been identified as [full name], was discovered thanks to an individual who alerted the police that he was with the two girls at the Gotham Hotel, which is located nearby Lleras Park. Although he was arrested and detained for 12 hours, authorities eventually released him because he had not been caught in the act of sexually abusing the girls. He was released on Friday, and boarded a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. An image of his passport, including his data and photo, has been posted to social media after details of his case came to light.
Maybe giving out his full name without him being caught doing anything illegal nor contacting him to get his version of the story is a little fucked up, El pais
You don't do that if you're not 100% sure
I always find not travelling to regions known for sex tourism then being caught in a hotel room with 11 & 12 year old children really helps to maintain my reputation of not being a paedophile.
But you do you.
But that sort of thing should be dealt with by the law, not by internet vigilantism.
Yes. Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law is a fundamental principle for good reason. For example, we don't actually know if anything of what we've read about him is actually true.
How was this guy dealt with by internet vigilantes?
He was arrested by the local authorities then bolted from the country once released on bail.
It is not uncustomary for authorities to release names of those arrested.
Do you want everywhere to change their processes so that your paedophile friends can remain in the shadows?
Then what would you call this:
An image of his passport, including his data and photo, has been posted to social media after details of his case came to light.
And yes, obviously everybody who thinks people have a right to due process must be a pedophile.
There is no due process because he fled the country.
Some countries have laws against committing crimes abroad so they can still be charged at home for this reason, I'm not sure about the US though.
Which is especially indicative of their personal qualities in the light of the fact that if he really is a pedophile, proving it won't be hard.
Sweet lord the Brazilian tourists are out in force on this thread.
They found him in a hotel known for sex workers, in a district known for sex work, with an 11 and 12 year old girl.
What was he doing, tutoring them?
He fled the country to escape consequences and I think we're all safer knowing his name and face.
I think you're replying to the wrong person!
The fact the guy was caught prior to abusing these kids, arrested and now has "his card marked" is great
No I meant the psychos downvoting you.
My hopes are low, let's put it like that
But they were also pretty low for Robert Murat, so, I don't like media vigilantism anymore.
Not really comparable between the media feeding frenzy surrounding the McCann disappearance and a US sex tourist being caught in a hotel with 2 children.
I just picked the first one when you google "media ruined life"
It's a matter of principle
There's hundreds of examples, pick your favorite
Again, not really comparable.
He is not someone like the guy framed by all the Reddit imbecilic sluths after the Boston marathon bombings, nor is he like Christopher Jefferies, accused by the media of murdering one of his tenants, just because he's a bit eccentric.
The guy was caught in a hotel room with children in an area known for sex tourism & he chose to bolt the country after his arrest.
It's not like it's an farcical comedy where a series of events transpired and his trousers fell down just as the police entered the room.
If you don't want your name released after being arrested in a hotel with local children entirely unrelated to you, then maybe don't invite local children up to your hotel and be getting arrested.
Like I said previously, I find it incredibly fucking easy not to be a child raping paedophile. It's so easy that very little thought goes into it so I don't have to deal with the consequences of even it being inferred despite no evidence of any crime having taken place.
So much so that I have zero fucking empathy for anyone that is.
Not comparable
It's a matter of principle, pick any of hundreds of examples if you want a comparison
Again, not comparable
Some people
I'm not the one defending paedophiles.
You are attacking civilized people who are trying to tell you that a lynching crowd is not the society.
So where's the lynching crowd aside from in all your imaginations?
Where apes are claiming due process is not necessary where it'll either yield the same result or they are wrong.
You are literally fighting mechanism which will help only innocent.
Y'know, it's fucking crazy how an innocent Black man'll get slabbed out by pigs and scores of hordes upon hordes of redditor crackers will all in unison "well, he must've done something to deserve it", "he was no angel", "he had a drug charge 15 years ago so that makes him free game to outright murder in the street" but as soon as it's a cracker pedophile so much as getting their name publicized, y'all out here "pwease no lynch mob guise 😢😢😢😢".
You peckerwoods sicken me.
You're an idiot. Why don't you go back to reddit instead of trying to make this place feel like it?
If I had to pick which person is exhibiting
behavior in a discussion where one side is playing devil's advocate for a dude who had 2 small children in his hotel room in an area known for kidnapping and child sex abuse, and another is saying the obvious despite not technically having strong evidence beyond the previously stated, my finger's on the guy that doesn't understand burden of proof.Why don't you fuck off back to where all the jailbait subs disappeared to and stop trying to turn this place into a paedo meet up, you fucking nonce
This comment gives me hope. I hate all the reddit kneejerk reactionaries. Sure, he may be a scumbag, but perhaps we should make sure beyond a reasonable doubt first.
Travelling overseas to an area rife with sex trafficking and getting caught in a hotel with 2 children he has absolutely no relation to is to you not beyond a reasonable doubt?
As I've said elsewhere, consider that you've said nothing of any concern for those children, about the poverty they very likely live in, nor for the sex workers who are being the brunt of the fallout from this.
Your concern is all on the paedo sex tourist caught in a hotel with 2 children.
Do you realize how certain one has to be to accuse a person of such a crime?
Would you want to live in a world where 1 of 100 considered guilty is innocent?
Would you feel the same way if you'd be that?
Do you realize how probabilities work?
If something has a 1 in a 1000 probability, then from time to time it happens.
And then the final question - do you consider it too much of a bother to go through investigative process with civilized legal proceedings to confirm what is true and reduce the probability of a mistake?
"Blah blah blah I'm defending paedophiles"
That's what your wall of text is saying.
My wall of text is saying that you want innocent people to be condemned, fighting against failsafe for that.
Thus you are a criminal and should hang.
A 3% probability of this being innocent would be too big to discard.
People seem too comfortable with huge margins of error when judging others.
The man, who has been identified as [full name]
Do you mean known pedophile Timothy Alan Livingston of Fort Lauderdale, FL? The one depicted in this photo of a passport? Is that the guy we're talking about here?
Just clarifying.
Further clarification: while he fled from Columbia to Fort Lauderdale, FL, the known pedophile Timothy Alan Livingston actually lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
He took two 12- and 13-year-old girls into his hotel room located in an area known for sex tourism so he could talk with them about how dangerous it is to go into hotel rooms with strangers, he totally wasn't going to do anything else, he swears.
Or perhaps he was framed? Or extorted by the guy who reported it? Or, he's just a pedophile. Probably the latter
That's why we rely on courts and allow people to defend their side of a story
https://colombiaone.com/2024/04/06/timothy-alan-livingston-colombia/
The events began on the night of March 27th at around nine o’clock, when Livingston attempted to enter his room at the Gotham City Hotel in Medellin with what appeared to be two underage girls. A hotel staff member prevented their entry, so Livingston and the girls left the hotel located in the famous ‘El Poblado’ district.
Hours later, around four o’clock in the morning on March 28th, with no security checks at the establishment’s entrance, the American managed to enter his room with two different underage girls aged 12 and 13, as evidenced by security camera footage.
Following an anonymous call to the national police, the authorities arrived at the hotel and inspected the premises but found no evidence of the accused touching the minors, and both girls denied being touched. The 36-year-old suspect was detained for 12 hours at a Protection Transfer Center (CTP) but was released hours later, allowing him to return to his country on Monday, March 29th. The girls were seen by security cameras leaving the hotel calmly, seemingly counting several Colombian 50,000-peso bills.
Did someone frame him into twice bringing underaged girls to his hotel room in an area known for sex trafficking, including putting used condoms in his wastebasket? Or do you think it's the far simpler explanation that he is a pedophile who was caught in the act?
You do not, in fact, need to run defense for pedophiles.
Not in my Gotham City
He was always probably a pedophile, we've read the same article
You still can't let mobs do the justice
we've read the same article
I don't think we have, because if you did, you would have read that Columbia has issued an arrest warrant for this man. So no, it is not mob justice when people spread the name of the pedophile Timothy Alan Livingston of Cleveland, Ohio, who has a Colombian arrest warrant issued for him because he, over the course of one night, attempted to bring at least four different underage girls into his hotel room in an attempt to have sex with them.
You keep defending this pedophile and it's creepy as fuck. Reconsider the decisions you've made that have brought you to this point in your life.
The arrest warrant and the 2 additional children were not in the original article
Honestly if there's an arrest warrant and the dude fled it gets harder to defend a burden of proof that's hanging on a system that he manages to evade, though we've seen people genuinely just going back home and getting a warrant after but let's put that aside.
On one hand i appreciate the deterrent that publishing his name is to other sex tourists, but on the other if he gets beaten to death because of it, or worse, some guy with the same name - I'm not fond of that either.
All that while honestly there's already systems in place for fleeting criminals, not sure there's much benefits feeding his real name to the mob in a very well referenced newspaper.
I'm glad someone is finally brave enough to say it, the persecution of pedophiles has gone too far
@iusearchlinux.fyi
lmao average Arch Linux user
I've never used archlinux
People who use arch don't come here they roll their own instance
Iusearch.fyi is speedy and blocks no other instance except the pedo ones so it's the best if you want a self-defined experience on the fediverse without rolling your own lemmy docker
I love how you went on a little nerd tangent about containers instead of addressing the fact you're defending a pedo
There's not much more to say, I just don't believe in mob justice. If they're not convinced back there 10 posts ago they won't be now
"Don't do justice yourself" was never a popular proposition
I've also said that slightly below, so.
Are we supposed to make assumptions about you for being on hexbear?
Of course, it's an instance filled with far left communists who regularly discuss communism and mods ban people who comment liberal and reactionary views
This is like the second terrible take I've seen from the iusearchlinux.fyi instance in a span of minutes holy shit.
What about the pedophiles story? where he had two young girls who were not his wards in a hotel room for some innocent reason
Maybe giving out his full name without him being caught doing anything illegal nor contacting him to get his version of the story is a little fucked up
No, he was caught in a hotel room with a 12 year old and 13 year old girl. I hope that, whatever you're imagining might happen to him as a result of this, something twice as bad happens to him every day for the rest of his (hopefully short) life
The only punishment he should get is a few years behind bars, and his fellow inmates knowing why he's in there.
They'll take care of the rest.
Their stated goal is to stop sex tourists. Releasing the names of the ones they find seems an efficient way to do so.
We all know what he was doing, the comment is saying let the law charge him before the public just brands him.
Oh I think they were sure, just interrupted him 20 minutes early.
This is the shit pedophiles say... he was in a hotel room with two little girls. What the fuck you think he was gonna do? Play fucking tea?
Defending pedophiles is some cringe shit my dude and It says a lot about you.
nope, that's called due process under the rule of law. Innocent until proven guilty. His guilt doesn't seem to have been established beyond reasonable doubt, if I understand correctly.
Now, if the police had turned up damning evidence, he would not have been sent home, but sentenced. And hopefully been put in jail for a very long time.
Where are his passport details on social media? Might as well know about Floridapedo here.
Fuck it, they should have took the girls out and gassed his hotel room with him still inside.
I knew I was gonna find someone defending this guy in the comments.
I'm sure he was just helping pay their tuition before feeding some homeless people.
No matter what he did, releasing his full name is wrong. Even if he was found in the act the name should never be released
Caught it the act? Yeah post his shit, hell string him up. That's just like a normal way to treat pedophiles. Not caught in the act, yeah thats where it becomes questionable, even if someone is like 90% sure thats what happened, what about the small chance hes innocent. Due process for sure. But definitely dont let him go. The fact they let him off seems questionable, did they really know? Or does someone want to come down hard on sex workers and used some random dude for this.
Nah. Expose chomos.
And the people who defend them anonymously online.
Yeah I want the name of every single techbro peckerwood in this comment section trying to defend this pedo
I never said "no matter what he did"
If convicted I don't care
