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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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Just looking at it in the recents is cringe worthy. Oh well.

not to mention if parents stumble across this gbatemp would get a good lashing from wherever the servers are located (then again we semi promote illegal activity (piracy) anyways I mean as in freeShop/CIAangel (even though we don't supply the keys to it we still supply the how to do it)
 
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not to mention if parents stumble across this gbatemp would get a good lashing from wherever the servers are located (then again we semi promote illegal activity (piracy) anyways I mean as in freeShop/CIAangel (even though we don't supply the keys to it we still supply the how to do it)
Gbatemp doesn't semi promote piracy or provide a way to do it. It provides forums to talk about programs that can be a way to pirate. Gbatemp actively removes threads asking for pirated data and removes even the mention of warez sites names.
 
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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.
He didn't want all of this to happen (no one does). The news does a fantastic job deceiving. My family strongly believe that it was just unorganized and not right on how they conducted this case. I don't want to talk much on this subject. We wish him the best, we love him, and hope that in the future a new trial is in action. He never harmed anyone (and never intends to) and never hosted cp. He wants to move on with his life.
Again, his site was spammed. They used the only images that were spammed in his case (including the "how-to" image, which is spam), making him look horrible. I agree on your advice and completely understand. Thank you.
That is the same case. I believe that was the arrest year when the cp was spammed. That's how long the system took to process his case. 2013-2017
You know, your claims are complete BS and I won't let them sit there and gather Likes from people who won't take the time to actually think about these claims.
First, you keep saying his site was spammed. But you know what? I am one of the Admin over at Filetrip and do you know what we have? A site log, which is just logs all of the activity on the site. In fact, every single site I've ever been an admin of has a site log. As well logs are also stored locally on the server itself. This means that if an external person(s) spammed the site with CP, that would have been logged and obviously the police would have checked those logs the second they started their investigation. If the site wasn't active at the time of the spam, these images would have been easily found in the log and being that it was well over 100 images, they would have taken up a good chunk of the log. This is how servers work, nothing is added to them that isn't logged by the server itself.
As well his servers would have been taken, but that's very clearly not the case. If he was only running 1 site and it's that site, then that site should be down. Yet the site is still running, meaning the servers were left in their place. They also would have taken his domain and it would directed to a page with a police warning saying the site was taken by the police. This only means that the servers and site used in the courts was not that site. Which only means that was indeed running a separate site with a different server(s.)
You keep bringing up the spam argument, but that argument is complete bullshit. Why? Because according to the actual court record it wasn't just found on his servers, but also on his own personal computer. So if it was spam, they sure did an amazing job spamming every computer he owned.
Unorganized, yet took 4 years? That's more than enough time for them to have searched his entire site, all of the logs, his emails. etc. In other words, your argument of "it's spam" doesn't hold up to the time frame spent for the investigation. Not to mention it only took me less than one night to poke holes through both sides of the argument. His lawyer had 4 years to poke these holes. If he truly was innocent, 4 years would have easily been enough time to have proven his innocence. Hell, one minute of skimming the site's log would have proven him innocent. But again, you still need to account for the CP found on his personal computer.

What I am getting at, is that your statements don't add up. They show a gross misunderstanding of the legal system, they show a complete ignorance of an actually well documented case, they show a complete ignorance of site admining, and so much more. Every statement is full of holes that honestly even makes your relationship to him completely debatable. There is no way anyone could sit through the courts for 4 years and lack so much knowledge of the case on hand. Unless you just sat there and intentionally ignored everything going on. Either way, your statements are complete bunk.
 
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What the fuck? I sound like those accusing gbatemp of a cover up? I am not accusing anything. I threw that out there like a possibility playing devils advocate and then even defended YOU in the same sentence. And i have expressed criticism over how this all was handled, and i have been calm and rational this whole time.

Now, i didnt mention this in my other post as to not get off topic, but after the way you handled the situation of the site being hacked and blew me off when I informed you of it, yes i certainly question your judgment and intent. But i still dont think you have a reason to openly lie to thousands of people, so i do not believe that you have.
alright thanks for clarifying :)
I may have blown you off in the past but that's because you can come across as quite aggressive (or defensive). I like it better when you express yourself calmly and rationally like you just did
 

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You know, your claims are complete BS and I won't let them sit there and gather Likes from people who won't take the time to actually think about these claims.
First, you keep saying his site was spammed. But you know what? I am one of the Admin over at Filetrip and do you know what we have? A site log, which is just logs all of the activity on the site. In fact, every single site I've ever been an admin of has a site log. As well logs are also stored locally on the server itself. This means that if an external person(s) spammed the site with CP, that would have been logged and obviously the police would have checked those logs the second they started their investigation. If the site wasn't active at the time of the spam, these images would have been easily found in the log and being that it was well over 100 images, they would have taken up a good chunk of the log. This is how servers work, nothing is added to them that isn't logged by the server itself.
As well his servers would have been taken, but that's very clearly not the case. If he was only running 1 site and it's that site, then that site should be down. Yet the site is still running, meaning the servers were left in their place. They also would have taken his domain and it would directed to a page with a police warning saying the site was taken by the police. This only means that the servers and site used in the courts was not that site. Which only means that was indeed running a separate site with a different server(s.)
You keep bringing up the spam argument, but that argument is complete bullshit. Why? Because according to the actual court record it wasn't just found on his servers, but also on his own personal computer. So if it was spam, they sure did an amazing job spamming every computer he owned.
Unorganized, yet took 4 years? That's more than enough time for them to have searched his entire site, all of the logs, his emails. etc. In other words, your argument of "it's spam" doesn't hold up to the time frame spent for the investigation. Not to mention it only took me less than one night to poke holes through both sides of the argument. His lawyer had 4 years to poke these holes. If he truly was innocent, 4 years would have easily been enough time to have proven his innocence. Hell, one minute of skimming the site's log would have proven him innocent. But again, you still need to account for the CP found on his personal computer.

What I am getting at, is that your statements don't add up. They show a gross misunderstanding of the legal system, they show a complete ignorance of an actually well documented case, they show a complete ignorance of site admining, and so much more. Every statement is full of holes that honestly even makes your relationship to him completely debatable. There is no way anyone could sit through the courts for 4 years and lack so much knowledge of the case on hand. Unless you just sat there and intentionally ignored everything going on. Either way, your statements are complete bunk.

Accused of child porn on your computer...good luck proving your case. They confiscate your computer and they have an endless supply of money. They dictate what is revealed on your computer. 9 photos is what the case was about, there was not website. To hire a computer forensic is 10s of thousands of dollars, of course you are an admin and have all of this knowledge. Child porn is the new Salem witch hunt, 1 photo on your computer is 5 years in jail. You will get less time molesting the child.
 
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This tread reminds me to the shit-tread about Trump making Mexicans pay for the wall.
The topic deviated from: Mexico will pay because Muslims, Chinese and South American people belongs to Mexico (According to some Proud Citizens ;) ), to Abortion and World War facts.

I can't believe how many people is defending his actions.
This topic is very heavy. It has a double moral.
I literally can't say anything else here, except that the topic is getting real weird, specially with the defenders.
 

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Accused of child porn on your computer...good luck proving your case. They confiscate your computer and they have an endless supply of money. They dictate what is revealed on your computer. 9 photos is what the case was about, there was not website. To hire a computer forensic is 10s of thousands of dollars, of course you are an admin and have all of this knowledge. Child porn is the new Salem witch hunt, 1 photo on your computer is 5 years in jail. You will get less time molesting the child.
I can backup my claims with the actual legal document.
Also I like how it just sounds like you are claiming the courts just made up a dude being there, all for the sake of fucking up one random guy.
 
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I can't believe how many people is defending his actions.
This topic is very heavy. It has a double moral.
Once more please point me at them. So far we have an apparent relation saying they didn't do nothing (fair enough really) and possibly a troll on the last few pages. There are some seriously misguided people here, and people for whom the law is either woefully inadequate (see also the "line them up against the wall" types and the brain scan thing is a touch too far for me) and some people with some fundamental misunderstandings of the terms involved, I expect as such as the modern world has it as a seriously emotionally loaded topic but again I am not seeing "defenders" as you term them.
 
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Once more please point me at them. So far we have an apparent relation saying they didn't do nothing (fair enough really) and possibly a troll on the last few pages. There are some seriously misguided people here, and people for whom the law is either woefully inadequate (see also the "line them up against the wall" types and the brain scan thing is a touch too far for me) and some people with some fundamental misunderstandings of the terms involved, I expect as such as the modern world has it as a seriously emotionally loaded topic but again I am not seeing "defenders" as you term them.

Oh, sorry, I think I misunderstood things like:
- The guy did nothing wrong.
- Pedos shouldn't be judged for their actions.
- When a 50 year old fucks a 15 years old, that should be left in the bedroom.


Sowwy :bow:
 
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Oh, sorry, I think I misunderstood things like:
- The guy did nothing wrong.
- Pedos shouldn't be judged for their actions.
- When a 50 year old fucks a 15 years old, that should be left in the bedroom.


Sowwy :bow:

This thread was a wild ride from start to finish with people saying things like that.
 

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I can't believe how many people is defending his actions.

He is claiming that he is innocent, therefore I can believe that a family member would defend him. They are dealing with a very traumatic situation & they need to get through it however they can.

I don't understand anyone claiming that it's actually ok to do what he has been accused of. It's not a good sign, either the person thinks it's ok or they think it's ok to troll people by saying that it is ok.

Looking at an image on a screen is morally and treated legally the same as being in the room watching approving of the actions, distributing an image shows a greater involvement and approval of the crime, producing the images is pretty much the same as carrying out the abuse yourself. It's not a joke, if you trivialise it then it will change you into a worse person. Not are you then complicit in their abuse, but you are also abusing yourself.

If he is actually guilty at all, even if doesn't accept all of the prosecutions case, then I hope that he can find a way to accept what he did and let his family grieve and stop fighting.
 
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