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Good grief, TR. The respondents to your post would have been right at home in Salem, MA or Edenton, NC.

This is great. Let's lynch the kid first, then find out what really happened. I find the mob mentality no less sick than the purveyors of child porn filth.

You people don't know anything about this incident other than the fact that the kid's roommate turned him in to the cops after borrowing his computer. Let's see. Out of the multiple hundreds of alternate scenarios, here are two that come to mind:

The so-called friend got a wild hair up his butt and set the kid up and turned him in. Maybe he and the accused got into some stupid, juvenile tiff.

Here's another, maybe the kid ended up with this stuff on his computer without knowing it. Maybe someone sent it to him in e-mail or he was surfing somewhere he shouldn't and had no intention of downloading anything illegal.

Making the leap from this story to convicting the guy of child molestation doesn't make any of you smart or righteous, it just makes you mindless thugs in the lynch mob. Grow up!

All of the possibilities of the truth behind the pornography would be revealed if the roommates were communicating directly (with witnesses if need be), rather than ratting each other out.

Hmmm, I just thought we were discussing the problems behind Child Porn, barring the posts directed at this kid whom we don't know willingly and knowingly DL'd these pics. That won't come out until the investigation is complete and even then his name and face are already all over the place. Basically even making acusations like this will ruin his life, regardless if they are true or not.

I know a little about computers and it takes no genius to figure out that...

1) files of any type have creation dates.
2) files also have creation times.
3) it is not easy to get rid of either.

This said, if the room mate had created the files himself the SBI would have been able to tell.