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Former GBAtemp member and suspected pedophile gets 20 year sentence

A former member of the community, not extremely active on GBAtemp but known for contributions to several projects on the 3DS hacking scene, Thomas Edvalson aka 'Cruel', has recently received a 20 year jail sentence for supposedly hosting a child porn site (although he firmly denied it).
gwinnettdailypost.com said:
Thomas Scot Edvalson, 28, appeared to be providing a website where other users could download images of child porn, according to a press release form the District Attorney’s Office. The site came complete with an online guide detailing how to use the dark web to set up a website for trading pictures of child sexual abuse.
Source: Gwinnett Daily Post
A thread was started on GBAtemp to discuss the issue a couple of months ago, before the final judgement was rendered. At the time our decision was to lock the thread up as it began to heavily derail. Some members and visitors took this as a 'cover up' and wondered why we didn't ban this guy's user account on GBAtemp.

We had long discussions in the staff forum and decided to wait for the final verdict (the appeal that is) before doing anything, thereby letting justice do its work. We banned this person from our forums immediately after we heard the final judgement and by the looks of it he won't be around again for a while. Since then, there hasn't been any new threads about the story but if there had been one, we would have allowed it for sure.

At this point we are wondering why anyone would think we are 'covering' this up? Why would we even need to? It's not like people don't know what happened already. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in this thread.

Furthermore, there is an ongoing story concerning another person, it's been posted on a Reddit thread (edit: now removed, but you can see screenshots here) and, again, we certainly won't prevent you from discussing it wherever you want just as long as you stay civil.

We at GBAtemp value freedom of speech above all, but within the boundaries of the law. If you think someone is guilty of a crime it is your duty to report it to the relevant authorities (not the GBAtemp admins, I mean the police). But otherwise let justice do its job. We do not believe that witch hunts have their place on GBAtemp.

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Damn, sure wish Cruel didn't send a picture of his penis to his friend. If he hadn't, Nintendo wouldn't have taken away Swapnote =/ Oh well, at least there's a new Swap note out and a new Pictochat in the works! And freeshop still works great from its new repository home!
 
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@Costello do you have clear evidence that this person that developed the famous freeshop, is the same one that is in sentenced to 20 years?
i ask this, because you can create an identity online.. you can come up with a fake name and register into a website with your own choices of names..
even in real life sometimes people get mixed up because they have the same name or Doppelgänger etc..

Bro alot of computer nerds are pedophiles. This website is full of kids its the perfect place,why do you act so surprised that someone that spends all day online is a pedo? Pedos are all over the place but especially online.
 

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@Costello do you have clear evidence that this person that developed the famous freeshop, is the same one that is in sentenced to 20 years?
i ask this, because you can create an identity online.. you can come up with a fake name and register into a website with your own choices of names..
even in real life sometimes people get mixed up because they have the same name or Doppelgänger etc..
Seeing as the cruel vanished from all his online places at the same time this guy went to prison i'd say its pretty much without a doubt the same person.
 

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Now if only the same would happen to the owner of FF Shrine. That person is such an obvious pedophile in all chatrooms towards their niece it's ...well, franky i'm surprised someone hasn't called the police yet.
 

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Seeing as the cruel vanished from all his online places at the same time this guy went to prison i'd say its pretty much without a doubt the same person.
There is clear evidence that they're one and the same. Some google-fu is all that's needed to dig out all the connections.
 
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to anticipate any questions:
- Cruel did not post any child porn on the forums
- he did not exchange any child porn via PM nor make any appropriate attempts to contact anyone
- no evidence was found that he did anything illegal in relation with GBAtemp
- we were not asked by the police or by any authority to provide any kind of information
- he has not used his account since March 3rd which is 2 weeks before the trial

Anything else you wanna know just ask. We have absolutely nothing to hide or to cover. I decided to post this thread as soon as I heard someone was accusing us to 'cover' the story, that is downright ridiculous.
If that's the case, why did you ban him then? Was his doing against the forum rules? Shouldn't be all private activities just be ignored unless they get involved with the forum? Even if it's child pornography?
 
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If that's the case, why did you ban him then? Was his doing against the forum rules? Shouldn't be all private activies just be ignored unless they get involved with the forum? Even if it's child pornography?

Oh look, another one.

Why is this even a problem?
 

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If that's the case, why did you ban him then? Was his doing against the forum rules? Shouldn't be all private activies just be ignored unless they get involved with the forum? Even if it's child pornography?
Or not. Private forum their rules. If they don't want pedophiles on it then that's their call. Why are all these people defending fking pedophiles?
 

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Or not. Private forum their rules. If they don't want pedophiles on it then that's their call. Why are all these people defending fking pedophiles?
Because they're pedophile themselves, they want freedom to stalk the little dudes and dudettes on this site. Nerds can't get girls so they go for the weaker, younger, innocent ones.
Hey kids, do you want some Free games?

I have them here :creep:
Hey kids you like Pokemon go? Wanna see my Pokeflute. xD
 
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Or not. Private forum their rules. If they don't want pedophiles on it then that's their call. Why are all these people defending fking pedophiles?
That's what I was asking. Cruel was never a pedophile within Gbatemp boundaries, only outside of it where forum rules usually do not intervene. You are aware that pedophilia can be a mental sickness that not all people are capable to escape from that easily? And I wasn't really defending it in my post above, where does this come from? I rather defend a human being, a relative to some, a friend to some, an acquaintance to some and a contributor to some. It's only natural to defend a person whatever he has done because one cannot break a personality down to one act or lifestyle alone. That would be inhuman instead
 
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Or not. Private forum their rules. If they don't want pedophiles on it then that's their call. Why are all these people defending fking pedophiles?
It is not defending a pedophile. It is that people have rights whether they have done something wrong or not, well in the real world. Yes, this is a semi private site and the owner can do as he chooses. Quite frankly though, I think that the owners have brought even more attention by making this thread. I had no of who this guy was before this thread.
 
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Watch the documentary "an open secret" about pedophiles in hollywood. Not only do the top names never get arrested, the ones who have been convicted child molestor serve 6 months and they're back working in hollywood. I don't know if he was set up but they definitely made an example of him probably due to his hacking.
 

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You are aware that pedophilia can be a mental sickness that not all people are capable to escape from that easily?
Sure i'm aware of it. But what he did wasn't just illegal it was immoral. Like i said earlier if he was jerking it to hentai loli porn nobody'd give a shit. Instead he ran a child porn website with guides on how to find it on the dark web. Even if he'd just have a library of CP stuff on his own personal PC it'd be immoral. But he went far far beyond that.

And I wasn't really defending it in my post above,

Sure you weren't. Then what was the point of your post exactly? Because they can ban anyone for whatever reason basically. Of all the times to complain about it this isn't one of them. Also your whole "i'd rather defend a human being bla bla" crap just sounds like even more pedo defending. I agree with it in principle but it just has no basis here. He's been tried and convicted. He's guilty. Saying you can't judge someone on what they've done is about the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard.

You have people in this thread literally going
The guy did what he done and got in trouble for it. Not a big deal to me.
If he ever comes back to this site, don't be a jerk to him because he's into that stuff. I'm pretty sure he's a nice guy.
This guy wasn't some harmless pervert jerking in his room to loli porn. He encouraged the victimization of real actual children. if you think he was a "nice guy" or a victim himself then you're either nuts, deluded as fuck, or a closeted pedo yourself.


I think that the owners have brought even more attention by making this thread. I had no of who this guy was before this thread.
I agree, and i think it's a mistake to do so. Community didn't need to even know this, simply wasn't relevant. Discussion about it is completely and utterly pointless because it's obvious he's completely in the wrong. This topic doesn't serve any purpose other than to show how depraved or out of touch some users are.
 
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He NEVER hosted a child porn site. His site was made just for programming information and that's all it was supposed to be used for, programming. His site was spammed with cp when he was out of state for a couple of years.
Well well well. This article here states "A search warrant from Edvalson’s home later revealed multiple computers 'rife with images of child sexual abuse.'"
So. He didn't have a site with child porn. Someone else claims that he left state for a few years and someone else put the images on the site. But who the hell can argue about multiple computers having child porn on them that were in his possession? What, did someone load on a bunch of child porn while the dude wasn't looking and he just never noticed? Let me guess, this is all an elaborate scheme to frame this dude, right?
 
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Sure i'm aware of it. But what he did wasn't just illegal it was immoral. Like i said earlier if he was jerking it to hentai loli porn nobody'd give a shit. Instead he ran a child porn website with guides on how to find it on the dark web. Even if he'd just have a library of CP stuff on his own personal PC it'd be immoral. But he went far far beyond that.

Sure you weren't. Then what was the point of your post exactly? Because they can ban anyone for whatever reason basically. Of all the times to complain about it this isn't one of them. Also your whole "i'd rather defend a human being bla bla" crap just sounds like even more pedo defending. I agree with it in principle but it just has no basis here. He's been tried and convicted. He's guilty. Saying you can't judge someone on what they've done is about the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard.

You have people in this thread literally going

This guy wasn't some harmless pervert jerking in his room to loli porn. He encouraged the victimization of real actual children. if you think he was a "nice guy" or a victim himself then you're either nuts, deluded as fuck, or a closeted pedo yourself.

I tell you what you are doing. You are minimizing a person to one act alone, stifling every right and every facet of his personality off him. That's what you are doing and that's short-minded, it's naive, hypocritical and cruel. No one's deserving this kind of treatment but the very person who is acting so. I know people from my personal environment who murdered others, yet they were one of the nicest people I had the pleasure talking to. And that's not a macguffin go get my argument going. I was questioning the circumstances. But you equalize his possible pedophilic actions with the rest of his character like you are equalizing my words to fit yours. It's not steadfast clear that he was doing that, at least not to the extent a lof of us are imagining it right now since our only source is the media. We don't even know his motives, we didn't here a word from him. I'm not saying you can't judge someone on what they have done. But there is a high chance that you are prejudging which can easily lead to biased misinformation and slandering someone's multifarious life to that of a mayfly
 

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I'm really grossed at this community right now and really thinking in retiring for all. Are you really defending pedophiles?, you're comparing them with schizofrenic patients? a schizophrenic individual its disconnected from it's reality in a certain degree depending of the serverity of the disease, they're INCAPACITATED PEOPLE, unlike pedophiles, yes, it is a mental disorder but unlike bipolar, obsesive-compulsive, neurotic or agoraphobic people, pedophile have victims and most of the pedophiles have total control of their actions. Will you defend psychopath killers also, sociopath bullies? are you really more empathethic with child rapists than abused kids? This is really sad.
 
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