More on the Alicia Navarro Case; The Foibles of "Age of Consent"

I like this channel, dreading.  They do good research.  And as they note in this episode, they're respectful.

What's painful is that this young lady I believe exploited the moment of Rudy Farias' reappearance, another teen who was missing/not missing, to deflect attention from her own situation.

Because I feel like a fool for having given her a pass for her disappearance when upon further reflection, it's obvious that she was groomed, and that she had to have been staying with someone all this time.  She didn't have the resources or life skills to be on her own from the time she left.  It was foolish of me to assume she had been with other people her own age.

Come to find out she's living with a 36 year old man, and has been for at least a year.  Details in between are sketchy at best.

The two of them seem very happy together.  Because Alicia is 18 now, she's not obligated to participate in any criminal investigation about her whereabouts when she was a minor.

But if you watch the linked video, it seems fairly obvious that she met someone online who assisted her in leaving her family at the age of 14.  She's a special-needs kid.  There's virtually no chance she hasn't been sexually active with them this whole time.

In terms of her boyfriend, I watch a lot of different YouTube channels that are based on Chris Hansen's classic "To Catch A Predator," where basically they pose as people like Alicia Navarro online, in hopes of snaring guys exactly like her boyfriend.   And they all look pretty much exactly like him, unless they're even older and scrubbier.

These channels convince guys like him that they're willing to meet up in real life.  And then when they show up they actually have printouts of the chat logs, and they call law enforcement.  But they all pretend to be girls exactly like Alicia Navarro, 14 years old and tiny, and okay with meeting up with a 36-year-old who's willing to be sexually inappropriate with them even though he got fired from Walmart.

So shame on me for accepting Alicia's version of events when she gave that obviously super-vague press conference apologizing to her mother and assuring everyone that she was fine.  No, there's plenty of evidence that actually she was groomed online and has been used by a fat, balding creeper who got fired from Walmart, some 36-year-old online predator, this whole time. 

But because they hid out until she was 18, now it's all fine, just like Rudy Farias' mom. 

Because let's be clear about this:  Alicia's confusion about it is understandable.  HER BOYFRIEND'S IS NOT.  He's a grown-ass man.  He can look at her, look in a mirror, and see that he has nothing to offer her and should step away from the special-needs child.

America sickens me.