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A large bust in North Carolina included the arrest of William Johnson Blankinship, credited by TLC as Bill Blankinship, who is listed as a writer, editor and on-line editor for Jon and Kate Plus 8 from 2007-2009 and an on-line editor for Kate Plus 8 from 2010-2011.
Blankinship also worked on 19 Kids and Counting, Sister Wives and Table for 12, three other TLC shows about children.
According to authorities, "Operation Spyglass" resulted in the arrest of 24 men over five months on felony charges ranging from the possession and distribution of child pornography to indecent liberties with a minor. Several of the men will be charged with felonies and could face prison time.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 312 of 312 Newer› Newest»Ah, for examples, take Jon and Kate's Bill Hayes the less deviant Bill who hopefully is not a child molester. His IMDB lists a wide variety of reality tv projects not just KIDDIE PORN/SHOWS.
He's worked on No Arms Needed, about a man with no arms. 627 pound woman, about a morbidly obese woman. Addicted to Food about obese people. Wallendas: Life on the Wire about a tight rope circus act. Knicker Knockers a short film about a woman's unplanned pregnancy.
In other words, clearly his interest is reality TV IN GENERAL and he's not just in it for the kiddies, I hope.
Has Jon made a statement yet? Or the Duggars or Hayes families?
Just bringing this up, but remember how some of the people on Jon and Kate Plus 8's crew have left the show for other shows??? And remember the insinuation was they knew something.
I wonder if this was it......I wonder, purely speculating, if these folks saw some people like Bill and something didn't feel right or he said something that made them uncomfortable, they tried to whistle blow on it and were transferred to another show or fired.
It's completely possible and really makes you wonder.
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Has Jon made a statement yet? Or the Duggars or Hayes families?
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I'm waiting for this as well. They need to address this, this is too big to stay quiet.
I am very curious if the other families will handle this better than Kate.
So Admin, should the public also be questioning the people who run daycares? Women can be pedophiles, too.
I'm simply saying that we should question EVERYONE who works with kids - including teachers, coaches, pediatric nurses and doctors, etc.
You've always said you don't believe in living in worry re: leaving kids in the car alone. (I could find a post you made but I'm too lazy) Respectfully, I always diagreed. When you have kids, you MUST question everything and everyone.
Better safe than sorry, right?
I've got some questions they can ask Kate since she loves doing the anwsering on her blog.
1 Kate how many days to you spend away from the kids??
2 Why won't you go away & stay away. I mean you do have 8 kids
Just Me, of course we should check day cares. Licensed day cares usually require background checks and child abuse checks. I fully support this.
I never said don't live in fear. But to not let fear rule your life. That does not mean that you are reckless. I have also said it's a fine balance between being protective and overportective. Requiring that your child go to a licensed day care is by no means overprotective, it's common sense. And it's also just plain common sense to know who is editing your child's hours of filming including bath time.
You do your due diligence with the day care--you visit it, know who is going on with your children, make sure it is licensed, read reviews, ask other mothers. This is what most good parents do. Kate never met Bill Blankinship like most good parents would insist you meet a daycare provider. Kate never made sure he had a background check. In fact, she openly advocated AGAINST Paul Petersen's proposals which included background checks. She never said, I'm against Paul Petersen's law except the background checks. Nope, she was against all of it. She didn't even come close to doing her due diligence. She resisted it.
i'm not sure where day care enters into the equation, but I don't know anyone who thinks you shouldn't check out day care providers. The difference would be if you have done a thorough investigation and the day care comes out clean as a whistle and you still worry every single day your child will be molested. That's when it goes beyond being protective. But kate didn't even BEGIN to do a thorough check of this guy to sit back and not worry anymore. She didn't even KNOW OF HIM!!!
In fact, I was thinking this is similar to day care. Kate should have checked out this guy like a reasonable mother would check out a day care. There is no reason to water board him, but a simple back ground check would be a good place to start for God sakes.
Is anyone curious if he DOES have a record??? Then TLC might really be in trouble.
I just hope this catastrophe doesn't translate into ratings for the View on Monday.
Khate never heard of him? Well well well...
I distinctly remember an episode when the six were about two and a half or three,in the hallway of their "old" house, one of the little boys running like crazy into the arms of this guy, and screeching "BILLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!" he was so happy to see him.
This Bill guy was part of Jen's crew, remember? They'd been gone on vacation or something and had just returned (the crew). I remember thinking how odd it was that the children never were THAT happy to see Jon or Khate when they returned from being gone; or maybe they just never dared screeching like that and running/jumping into their arms the way that little boy did to BILL that day.
Does anyone else remember this? I'm sure TLC is busy cutting it out of the episode by now; it's such blatant EVIDENCE that this Lowlifer was involved with Khate and the children.
Just Me, I know for a fact I have never said anything about not questioning PEOPLE around your kids. I just wouldn't say that since I've never believed that. There was one small reference to sleep overs and I talked about how you get to know the other parent and get a good sense of them and talk to other parents. You can't exactly ask another parent for a background check without that being terrible awkward, but I believe parents are a very good judge for what feels right and what doesn't. That's hardly not questioning who is around your kids.
The post you're speaking about was specifically about whether you could leave your kids in a car with you standing right there. Some folks disagreed, some didn't, this has nothing to do with the matter at hand and I don't want to drag that all up again.
I firmly believe that anyone, anyone who works with kids, around kids, on a show that invokes kids, spends time with kids outside the context of being another parent who happens to be the parent of your child's good friend, should be background checked. And for those you can't, if your child is going to spend a lot of time with them you as a parent have to do what you can to get to know them and find out about them and make sure they are okay. My experience is parents are usually pretty vocal about the "good" parents and the ones they don't like. Parents do tend to stick together and say hey FYI little Jimmy's dad is a drunk around his kid I wouldn't feel comfortable with that.
Background check people, background check them, background check them.
Just Me- When you choose to film your kids over your children's father's objections and concerns- You need to listen to his concerns about pedophiles and take heart. Pedophiles can view images, shares images, (Child Porn) and eventually through progression MAY have contact with minors. It is not a joke.
Bottom line, Kate Plus 8 is now off tv, but it is disturbing that she is promoting Mady as the next Disney star, and never seems happy with her kids unless they are performing for cameras. She is one truly disturbed person. These kids haven't had a chance to breathe yet, without a camera down their throats. Disgusting and there is something really wrong here.
I'm pretty sure where Barbara, Joy, Elisabeth and Whoopi will come out on this. It's Sherri who will be the question for me.
I wouldn't doubt for a minute Sherri has had 3 background checks on every single person who has ever laid eyes on her Jeffrey, including the check-out guy at the grocery store. But she defends Kate to the end, and I can almost hear her sighs, pleas and gasps of frustration while she proclaims that no mother can do everything, protect her children from everyone. That was TLC's job, not Kate's. "Kate's a great mom and she's doing her best." And once Sherri has made her proclamations, she does not back down. She will defend them, however ridiculously, until Whoopi or Barbara tells her to shut up. Nicely, of course. Joy, not so nicely sometimes.
It could have been Bill Hayes.
As a writer/editor he probably was less likely to actually be on set. I actually believe Kate on this that she never knew him. One is that of course Kate is not a real producer and is involved, of course Kate is clueless how an episode really gets from A to Z. She just wants the paycheck. And secondly I know several people who do editing full time or part time. They often work in their own editing bays at home, or in an editing bay at an office. The movie set I was on, the editors were in another state, back in L.A., and I brought them back some dailies for them a few days alter. They aren't on set because that doesn't make sense for them to be on set-- they need to be in front of their computers looking at all the footage they have so far, perhaps talking to the director and producer letting them know how it's looking what's piecing together. Editors don't always wait until all the footage is in. I've seen editors work on a project after only getting one day of film.
Although it would be quite earth shattering to find him on film somewhere. Or even with the other shows. There's just so much footage to ever find that. A prize for anyone who does.
And actually if Bill wasn't even around the kids it's not even about questioning who is around your kids. It's about questioning who is working with your kids' FOOTAGE.
At least if someone is around your kids you can be there and watch. But someone locked up in an editing bay in North Carolina with hundreds of hours of kiddie footage? You can bet I want to know exactly who they are and what their background is.
Does anyone else remember this? I'm sure TLC is busy cutting it out of the episode by now; it's such blatant EVIDENCE that this Lowlifer was involved with Khate and the children.
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"Bill" is not an uncommon name. Isn't there a Bill Hayes who worked on production?
Why did I think it was "SCCCCOOOOOOTTTTTTTTT"?
For that matter, writers are often banned from set. Sometimes on set you need to change things a little bit with the script and so on, or sometimes the writer's "vision" isn't what they were thinking when they see what you are doing, and they throw a fit and cause problems. (That trophy is so big that's not my idea of how it would look, the line should be said THIS way not that WAY--you get the idea) Often directors once they take the script essentially it's theirs now and they don't want to see the writer again until the credits. SOME sets allow writers on it but it's not common. They are considered troublemakers and time wasters and on a set, time is money.
Oh and I'm also wondering why the realist reality show had a writer.
And actually if Bill wasn't even around the kids it's not even about questioning who is around your kids. It's about questioning who is working with your kids' FOOTAGE.
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Exactly, admin. Amen to that. To think that these creeps are sitting around getting their jollies off, literally, watching MY CHILDREN would be enough to cause me to break into a cold sweat. Disgusting.
No mother who cares about the privacy of her children would ever do this. Then there's Kate.
I think I'm wrong. Scott was long gone by then. Sorry.
Well, whoever it was, the one I remember is in the 1st episode they filmed after their "hiatus". The doorbell rang and there was the crew ready to roll. The kids were glad to see them, it seemed.
She's still going on giddily about the View and dreaming about sitting in those chairs as her dream job.
She is obvious to this. Or just hoping it will go away.
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Why did I think it was "SCCCCOOOOOOTTTTTTTTT"?
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Probably because it WAS Scott that they were so glad to see! I don't remember any "Bill."
Fido - there was a time that there was a Scott and the kids were glad to see him. I don't remember what episode it was, but I do recall that they called this person by name.
Admin said-She's still going on giddily about the View and dreaming about sitting in those chairs as her dream job.
She is obvious to this. Or just hoping it will go away.
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Yep, it's all about Kate. Always was, always will be. Kids be damned.
And once Sherri has made her proclamations, she does not back down.\
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Is she still insisting that the world is flat and that Jesus predates everything? :-)
Masha's Law was signed by President Bush in 2009 and allows kids in those kiddie porn photos to sue for damages.
This is of course something Bush never gets credit for--though it could be enormously helpful to the Gosselin kids in this. By law child porn IS harmful to the victims and they are allowed damages. John Walsh also helped push it through. Yeah for Bush, Walsh and yea for Masha's Law!
There are numerous examples of successful suits by child porn victims and winning since then, here's just one example of a kid who was rewarded 5.4 million dollars:
http://childprotectionnews.com/judge-awards-11-year-old-girl-5-4-million-in-child-pornographysexual-abuse-case-using-masha%E2%80%99s-law/
It also talks about Masha's law, which allows courts to award damages of $150,000 PER IMAGE FOUND. So if there were 500 images of the Gosselin kids they could get 150,000 bucks a pop. I'm surprised Kate's not working the phones tonight to get this gold mine going.
So if there were 500 images of the Gosselin kids they could get 150,000 bucks a pop. I'm surprised Kate's not working the phones tonight to get this gold mine going.
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But wouldn't it have to be proven that these photos were kiddie porn? What constitutes kiddie porn? Certainly not photos of kids sitting around the kitchen table.
Yes they would have to prove it's child pornography, I believe. Federally it's defined as:
(8) “child pornography” means any visual depiction, including any photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, of sexually explicit conduct, where—
(A) the production of such visual depiction involves the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct;
(B) such visual depiction is a digital image, computer image, or computer-generated image that is, or is indistinguishable from, that of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; or
(C) such visual depiction has been created, adapted, or modified to appear that an identifiable minor is engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
If he did anything to modify any photos to make them sexualized, they could get him on subsection C.
Who even knows at this point, I am half curious to hear the details of what exactly this guy did, and half of me wants to throw up.
They DID arrest him for child porn so he must have had something more than just some images of kids sitting around the table.
The question really is, were any of those photos involving Gosselin children or other TLC children. Or were they photos traded independently of any TLC shows that he got from other deviants or internationally, unknown kids.
Either one is horrifying but I fear the former.
Question - in the case of Brownie and her friend who was seen in the photo on her page with the girls she mentors - If this guy was allowed to be around these girls, and he was arrested on 100 counts of child porn, and any one of those photos (of the girls at the workshop) was found in his possession, then the parents of the minors could sue Brownie for allowing him to be around the girls...even if she didn't know his penchant for young kids?
Who would be liable in a case like that?
They DID arrest him for child porn so he must have had something more than just some images of kids sitting around the table.
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Without a doubt. What I meant was that if none of those photos involved anything that is defined as kiddie porn involving the Gosselin kids, then what would be the basis of her lawsuit?
fidosmommy,
OH now I feel SO stupid...
Maybe it was SCOTT. I'm glad you caught this so I didn't start an ugly rumor; if there's one thing this blog is about, it's the truth, the WHOLE truth (someday), and nothing but the truth. I stand corrected and THANKS, fido.
Now I want to discuss why none of the family can share time with the kids (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins,etc) yet the film crew could come and go and spend many many hours with her kids for the show. Of course, it was all about the paycheck, but how twisted if this woman that it has ever come to this? The kids need a connection with their family and I hope Jon is letting his side of the family see the kids. And I kind of think he is is.
Kate made a brief mention of reconnecting with her family, as her kids were requesting this, but this may never happen, and WHY?? She is one selfish witch. All about her. I adored my connection with my aunts/uncles/cousins as a kid. Made me who I am today, as it was part of who I was, not a TV camera.
Her priorities are SO screwed up! She is probably afraid of what the kids will say to the family, otherwise, why keep them away? Seriously!
No basis under child porn. You could try even theft or copyright, where did he get all those images?
But I think you could take his behavior as to whatever child porn they found and try to get the court to draw the connection that this is all part and parcel of it and that even benign photos of kids are all part of the package.
This is what lawyers do try to make every case fit into some law somehow. Some you win some you lose.
I might actually respect her for a few seconds if she tweeted something like, I'm hugging the kids a little extra hard tonight.
It's okay to do that, I think we're all doing that. This is sick and horrifying and thank GOD her kids are okay but it could have been so much worse and we don't even know yet the extent of that. For all we know this could have all involved the Gosselin kids' images. I wouldn't sleep for weeks if this were my kids.
Heck even the Casey Anthony caused her to pause and tweet her sadness.
Oh right, she's in NYC this weekend living the life she always dreamed of off her children's money they made working for a pedophile's jollies.
In the Neighborhood, what case was thrown out of court? Why didn't they use Masha's Law which clearly says you ARE allowed damages?
"I mean, I put my kids out there to every pedophile on the planet, and they never got paid for it? It's disgusting."
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I meant to comment on this before, I don't think Jon was saying that if they got paid it would be better. I took it to mean that TLC had such little respect for the kids that not only did they throw them in front of every pedophile on the planet, but they didn't even bother to respect them enough to pay them while doing so.
I agree throwing the paying thing into it sounds bad, but I get what he's saying--TLC had no respect for his kids.
Going off for most of tonight with this final note....
I'm still in shock. I knew in the back of my mind something like this could very well happen but I suppose I never really thought it actually would, just that it very well COULD. We warned of this so many times it gets to the point where it just becomes something you don't even fully digest anymore.
It happened just like we said it would and worse. A pedophile worked on the children's show. A pedophile worked for YEARS on their show. He was there all along, as we were discussing this very issue. It's crazy, like some bad dream.
I'm in shock. Where is KAte tonight? THe Fig and Olive again? Enjoy.
A background check would probably have been useless in this instance:
If a person has a body of work that large involving children, chances are that he has absolutely no previous convictions or even arrests for anything to do with child pornography. Pedophiles are usually really adept at hiding their activities from detection, especially when their livelihood involves kids, and are not caught except by accident or by a child's disclosure.
A background check on this man would have likely come up clean.
This does not absolve Kate in any way from her responsibility to protect her children from exposing her children to pedophiles, by not knowing exactly who their contacts were , and by continuing to exploit them on a "reality" show,even over the protests of their father and other family members.She is a despicable human being.
There should be a comma after "to protect her children".
What constitutes kiddie porn? Certainly not photos of kids sitting around the kitchen table.
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According to Law & Ord SVU since I feel dirty looking up the exact def,
I believe any child posing in a sexual mannar or undressed or preforiming or engaging in sexual acts.
Oh and this creep above remind me of a one of the camera men maybe that's just me.
What about the camera, audio, and production people who were physically present with the Gosselin all those years? How many have had a background check? None l'll bet! Someone there knew something was 'off'. TLC has separated itself from Figure8 productions and Figure8 has distanced itself from Blankinship's Serious Robots company. Just like rats turning on each other. Then there's Khate, little miss innocence. Wide-eyed and legless, pretending she knew nothing! She didn't care enough to know anything! Too busy counting the $$$$ and having "me time" with HER bodyguard! Whos was 'guarding' the kids! No one.
I hope the Feds go all out on this. TLC has money for high flying lawyers to destroy Jon and anyone else who got in their way, but the Feds have more!
Do we all need to write to The View? If they won't ask her hard questions then l don't see the point of having her on. Maybe they'll cancel her. She needs to be treated with the disgust and contempt she deserves and all entertainment shows on and offline turn their backs on her. Literally. Including neighbors in Wernersville. If they see her coming, stop! and turn your back on her. If l had the franchise on the UPS store...don't let her in. Redirect her mail.
She is in NYC this weekend looking forward to her appearance on The View. If I was in her shoes in order to get any rest tonight, I would have to be heavily medicated.
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But someone locked up in an editing bay in North Carolina with hundreds of hours of kiddie footage? You can bet I want to know exactly who they are and what their background is.
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Well, sure. But you're not Kate Gosselin, and that's also why you would never have agreed to sell your kids down the river in the first place.
This guy is certainly not the only pedophile to work on these shows. His job is a pedophile's dream, and he's not the only one who knows that.
There's a reason those guys can stand to hold the cameras on naked babies on their potties, film them rolling around on floors, and having their diapers changed and then spend hours reviewing video tapes of other people's children.
Hint: It's not because they respect the rights of children to have private, protected childhoods.
So here she is back on Twitter, with nary a care in the world, not even a comment about a horrifying story that has most likely involved her children...the same woman who complains daily about her difficult, mediocre life; angsting endlessly about mundane issues such as laundy,dieting,being tired yet nary a word about the arrest of a pedophile who had unlimited access and editing control over footage of her children's lives.
"Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person." This is one of the defining characteristics of a sociopath. Kate has demonstrated this characteristic today by her non-reaction to an event which has shaken everyone else to the core. She clearly showed today that she does not have her children's best interests at heart.
I bet Kate has no idea that the ladies on the View were speaking negatively about her on one of their shows. She probably thinks they are all her BFFs. Wonder if she would still be so excited if she knew this.
I'm sorry but I'm not too informed on why Kate still even has the last name Gosselin. I mean once you get divorced is it the former spouses right to still have the surname? They were married only 10 years, I think?
Or is she just attached to the surname for its signifigance and notieriety?
If she is still talking about only being on The View it says a lot to me how she feels about who has access full or by video to her kids. That she does not care. If she did you think she would be even a little bit upset. And we all know when she's upset in the past she takes it out on Twitter to let everybody know she's been wronged before.
I don't think Kate would care that the ladies on the View were speaking badly of her. As long as she's sitting in one of the "chairs of her dreams" (read Twitter) she'll be happy. What an idiot she is. The stupid bitch truly believes that she'll one day have her own talk show. To tell you the truth, I wouldn't doubt it. Somehow or other that bitch continues to keep one foot in the arena.
I'd loved to see Kate ask then why the throw her under the bus Now that would be fun to watch since she loves them so munch why not ask??.
Why does this guy look so familiar - like someone we've seen on one of the episodes?
Doesn't it even cross her pea brain that even if she never met him, that he had full access to all photos and films taken of her children and there were a lot of those pics of her children in near undress. So she didn't know him, does she not consider that he had those photos and was probably passing them out to his porn buddies and they were all using those photos of HER children for their sick pleasures. I would be so angry I couldn't speak. Sometimes, especially in a case like this, ignorance is N.O.T. bliss and you need to take your head out of your ass and know what is going on in your kids lives.
LOL-Does thia aply to Kate
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My apologies if somebody has alredy mentioned this (lots of comments and I haven't read them all) but this certainly makes me look differently at Mady's anger issues and the behavior that lead to the two little ones being expelled from school. What have those poor children been living with??!?
My apologies if somebody has alredy mentioned this (lots of comments and I haven't read them all) but this certainly makes me look differently at Mady's anger issues and the behavior that lead to the two little ones being expelled from school. What have those poor children been living with??!?
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I don't understand your point. Mady's anger issues and the younger ones being expelled from school are attributed to what?
Why is everything just everything out of Kate's mouth, "My dreams." Geez, for a grown woman she sure dreams of herself and her wants an awful lot instead of her kids dreams. How selfish.
It's her bucket list again, huh? How long is it now? Does it stretch from her leather sofa all the way to her pool by now?
If her dream is to be a talk show host or co-host, Kate better learn a few more words besides "um, y'know, like." No talk show can exist on 3 words alone. And it be nice if it wasn't solely about, "I want, I did, I do, Me, Myself and I."
Unbelievable that she is aware she is that self centered. If she aware she obviously doesn't care. But I guess that happens if your mind never left the halls of high school.
Ghouls in the Night said... Why does this guy look so familiar - like someone we've seen on one of the episodes?
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He looks alot like that crew member Jim who worked on Jon & Kate (early years) but then went over to 19 Kids and Counting.
Kate really needs to think about this whole "I never met him!" defense.
So what, you SHOULD have met him!
It's like if you send a child over to a friend's house but never bother to meet the parents. They end up hurting your child. Would you honestly go around telling people innocently, hey I didn't meet them how was I to know??? People would be outraged they would think that's horrible parenting.
As is this.
If this writer/editor had inappropriate film of kids, how did he get it? Who was behind the camera? What charges might be leveled there?
I thought Kate said she had control over what filming went into or not into the show? Wouldn't that imply she was even close into an editing room? She said to protect her kids privacy or their attitudes or something like that.
Here's a laugh:
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@Kateplusmy8 @theview you should have ur own show! You are so good with words!
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I am just now reading through comments and want to clarify that the Just me that posted at 5:46pm is not me.
So annoying when people take our regular names. I always capitalize both the J and M in Just Me.
And the sheeple say... "Kate is an excellent mother!!!!! She would never allow anything like that near HER kids!!!!! See? She doesnt even know who he is, he was never near the kids!!!!! Kate is a wonderful mother!!!!!"
I love the list of episodes that was posted above that this wackadoodle was involved in. Thank you for that. I am waiting for a sheeple to note a mispelling or an incorrect date which of course will invalidate (in Katie-land) the entire concept that a pedophile was near footage of these little children.
I am surprised that they arent accusing US of creating and planting the whole thing just to be mean to their Katie-poo. Of course, they will change their dismissive tune once she sues; they will follow her lead.
And Kate, you ass: Paul Petersen doesnt want to hear himself talk, he wants YOU to hear him talk so you can learn to protect your own children. How dare you speak of this man in that manner, you over-inflated baboon.
Do any of you guys know anything about 'dry-socket'? Sob.
I remember this said... Khate never heard of him? Well well well...
I distinctly remember an episode when the six were about two and a half or three,in the hallway of their "old" house, one of the little boys running like crazy into the arms of this guy, and screeching "BILLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!" he was so happy to see him.
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I recall a "SCOTT!!!!!!!!!" that they were so happy to see. I dont know much about TV production, but an 'editor' spends a lot of time in a production studio editing the film; Does anyone know how much time an video editor would have spent on the set/home with the kids? Perhaps in his capacity as writer, he did spend more time with them?
I am eager to see if Paul Petersen makes a statement about this. Or Pa Rep Murt.
"Almost everyone working on a show will cite the enormous volume of footage that is captured during production and the challenge that comes with storing it and making it available to a team of editors searching for that “choice” dramatic moment."
and, "Sounds like this guy's JOB was to weed through hundreds of hours of footage and splice together cute 2 minute clips."
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What I would like to know is......if the kids were only being filmed for limited hours while they were just going about their normal lives (as Kate has always claimed).......why would there be hundreds of hours and enormous volumes of film that these editors had to spend hours searching through?
I mean, if they were only filming the kids just playing or going about their normal day, there would not have been volumes and volumes of tape to go through..........unless, that is, these kids spent hours and hours of grueling re-takes over and over and over again.....in addition to all the staged photos taken and re-taken of them for magazines, etc.
They may not have been acting.......but they sure as hell were working....for hours and hours and hours every day.
I remember, as a kid, having to sit for family photographs once a year.....and what a huge pain in the neck it was...especially for a kid. I dreaded it. Hated it. And it was only for a few hours once a year.
There are hundreds of staged photos of the Gosselin kids....in numerous magazines...for articles, advertisements, etc. Each one took hours to shoot. And that's just the staged photos....when they had to sit still and pose for the camera.....over and over again.
And that doesn't even include the reels and reels of film they shot that editors had to weed through just to find enough good footage for an hour-long show.
If they were only filming the kids as they played and went about their normal lives, there would only be a few hours of film to edit....after all, it only takes a few hours to film a bunch of kids playing and going about their normal day...right? Kinda like home movies, right Kate? No hardship or working for the kids...piece of cake...they didn't even really notice it. What were those lawmakers getting so upset about? :O
Donna said... I don't think Kate would care that the ladies on the View were speaking badly of her. As long as she's sitting in one of the "chairs of her dreams" (read Twitter) she'll be happy. What an idiot she is. The stupid bitch truly believes that she'll one day have her own talk show. To tell you the truth, I wouldn't doubt it. Somehow or other that bitch continues to keep one foot in the arena.
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Man, that woman has BALLS! Just unbelievable...what a presumptuous thing to say, even on Twitter. Remember when she grabbed the Mic from someone on ET and brazenly said, "Someday I'll own this." Kate is too stupid, in addition to being totally uninformed, to be a host on any talk show.
As an LCSW (licensed clinical social worker) in NYS, I would fully expect that CPS (child protective services) will be involved in interviewing the Gosselin children or any other children suspected of being victims if it seems from the Police Investigation that this pedophile had physical contact with any of these children. It is possible that he had physical contact with the children but it is also possible that his contact was solely through film which I pray to be the case.
I am also suspicious about timing here. The arrest was made several days ago , I think on the 24Th but I may be wrong. In any case, here we have Kate appearing Monday on the view. Is this why she is asked to appear? It will be nauseating if she uses this to gain more attention on herself as a "victim" that of a poor Mom whose children were unwittingly put in danger. I think that TLC will control how she responds to this to a large extent. They must be in damage control mode big time and I think Kate would do as advised by them. I would expect they are dangling future filming of specials in front of her if nothing else to gain her cooperation in all matters.
One last thing, much has been said about Kate looking like she is sick with an eating disorder, drug use etc as of late. I have no sympathy for her and I am ashamed to admit it. She has made life hell for those children and again it is they that are the victims.
I do hope to hear from Jon on this, I think he really needs to make a public statement on behalf of the children.
For those who justify that this guy's photos would have to be on a certain level of porn and abuse (not just naked kids and kids pooping) in order for him to have been charged with what they have charged him with..........only some of the photos would have to have risen to that level....not ALL of them.....and he would have been one of the only guys in this porn-sharing ring who had access to photos of the G. children and not just of random non-celebrity children. And I feel it's pretty likely that he shared a few of them with his buddies also.
And it is not likely that this guy was ever actually around the G. children...as in being in physical proximity......but that's not really the point.
Administrator made a great observation I'd not even thought of....that hmm....all but one of the shows this guy edited involved children. This is the classic MO of pedophiles....to purposely put themselves in activities involving children...be it on the job or being a Boy Scout leader.
In the pics of the film crew (boom mikes, etc.) filming the G. children....I rarely saw any women. I'm sure they were there, but the majority of the crew appeared to have been men. What would the chances be that one or more of them might have had more than just a professional interest in the kids? I would say that it's high enough to be more than concerned...possibly even worried....but not Kate. She is the only mom on any of the shows he edited who referred to the film crew as being"daddies"to her kids. "Daddies" can be trusted to be alone with their own children....and you don't have to worry about the children being with them. To me, that shows a general lack of concern/worry about the crew filming her kids for hours and hours...even alone with them.
As far as Kate remaining relevant...I feel quite certain that as time goes on, all sorts of revelations will come out....and they won't be good ones. This may keep Kate somewhat relevant...but not in a good way and certainly not in a way that producers would be offering her jobs in the entertainment industry.
Kate lives in a world she's created in her own head. She's a legend in her own mind.....and I suspect most of the fans also re-write history to suit them...just like Kate does. You have to have certain psych issues when you're able to look at black and call it white...and to look at white and call it black...to live in the fantasy world you've created in your head. Kate is a good mom? Seriously....it's pathetic.
She wants her own talk show. Really? I would like to have a million dollars too. The difference is that I know that the chances of me getting it are remote. Because I live in the real world...not the one I created in my own head.
Three things:
1) A background check probably wouldn't have caught this guy, though it is a good idea if you plan to have people you don't know spend a lot of time around your kids.
2) Women can be pedophiles, too. Increasing numbers are being convicted now. (It turns out that a lot of people are missing those maternal feelings that KG so lacks.) Having women on the crew might not make a bit of difference.
3) Advocating for your kids, and NOT inviting strangers into your home -like a film crew, for example-goes a long way toward giving your children a safe and happy childhood.
Sport said "Sorry for being judgmental, but that dude doesnt even pass the eyeball test. He looks like he spends his days driving an ice cream truck, looking for his lost puppy."
That picture probably wasn't taken on his best day ever, but he sure doesn't.
The only eyeball test Kate Gosselin used was the one that saw mountains of greenbacks. She was not at all interested in what might happen to her children in the process.
Nor is she now.
Kate Twittered (10/28)
@MiloandJack lol oh good. Our tails wagged here too lol
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They sure did. Or your kids' did.
And that was just what your viewers wanted. All those pedophiles you said didn't exist.
Nice work, Mom of the Year. Good to know that all those trips away from the kids, including the ones upstairs in the house, were worth it.
fade2black said...
Virginia Pen Mom, little Robert's story aired in MN, so it's a happy day here, too. :o)
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Thanks, I'm glad to hear that, Fade! The newscasters here were crying and saying, "God does answer prayer." The sheriff said the same. When you read about selfish jerks like this guy above, the opposite news of 6,000 kind strangers and a miracle really helps restore faith in humanity.
Kate is one selfish woman. She will not share her kids with her own family, but has put the kids in this awful situation of being filmed in every state of undress for years! What a piece of work she is. There are not words bad enough to describe this mess. And, yes, she is off enjoying herself in NYC like she doesn't have a care in the world. Delusional wannabe person.
It's hit the British tabloids:
Daily Mail
Here's one that just slipped though and totally forgotten.
How many more sickos out there have "cashed in" on the Gosselin 8 ?
She must be so damn proud of herself.
(Sorry, I don't know how to make it clickable)
Creep! Kate Gosselin Twitter Stalked By Pedophile !
http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/831295/creep-kate-gosselin-twitter-stalked-by-pedophile
If this has been said, I'm sorry. It's sick, & I'm sorry.
How do we know Blankenship didn't have something going with one of the film crew? The film crew, the daddy? One of them could have been a pedophile for all anyone knows & he could have filmed something...sick, without Kate knowing, since she left the kids alone with them all the damn time. There are so many wrong wrong wrong things with this scenario. (speculation)
Kate can plead ignorance all she wants. She damaged those kids. When they are old enough to realize that they have possibly been exposed to a pedophile, & all of those times have been right there, on tape, they won't take it well.
They won't take ANY of it well. Their whole lives have been for Kate's benefit. She didn't protect them. End of story.
~HC~
Were aren't the only ones that thinks Kate is a crazy witch.
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/good_day_philadelphia/mike-jerrick-admits-kate-gosselin-crush-091411
Totally off topic,but is Kate's hose in the snowstorm area? I've forgotten exactly where she lives. It's snowing in NY also. Or it will be soon. Maybe not exactly where Kate is ,but in NY. Maybe the View was taped and Kate is home already. Anyone know? If it hasn't been taped,she will miss Halloween with her kids. She said that she would NEVER miss a holiday with her kids.
One of the biggest questions I have right now for Kate, TLC and everyone involved in this whole mess is....WHERE IS ALL THE UNUSED FOOTAGE?
Who has access to this footage? If Blankinship was just contracted, sounds like they have very little control over who came into contact with this footage. Can anyone who passes through the doors of Figure 8 or Robots access the archived footage? Is it on numerous computers and in numerous editing bays? It's not common practice to destroy footage like this, not right away anyway. So where iso t?
My fear is that potentially, hundreds of people could get their hands on all that footage.
TLC/Kate? You have some explaining to do.
NT said
She said that she would NEVER miss a holiday with her kids.
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So what? Nearly everything this woman says is a lie. Why should this time be any different?
I think after Kate's initial statement she doesn't know the guy, TLC called her and said she is not to comment further until they figure out what to do.
Explains her silence for a long time, followed by a few incredibly chipper posts about wishing she too could host the View.
The shit hit the fan and Kate knows it and she's trying to just tap dance her way through it with a big phony smile on her face.
Administrator said...
One of the biggest questions I have right now for Kate, TLC and everyone involved in this whole mess is....WHERE IS ALL THE UNUSED FOOTAGE?
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You know, it doesn't really matter. Online pedophiles are sophisticated enough to remove the "blurring" that TLC used when broadcasting the naked children. Actually, you could do it yourself with any one of a number of popular photo-editing software packages.
When Kate took the money, she willingly gave up control. End of story. She sold her kids down the river.
There's NO getting the tapes back. If this guy is guilty, and he was file-sharing, they're everywhere. Copying and distributing video is very, very easy, and no pedophile was going to waste those out-takes.
I would still want the original footage back in my possession. He may have copied and distributed every hour of it, but there is something so unsettling about hundreds of hours of your child's footage sitting at some production company in North Carolina. I would want it back in my hands.
I would demand every second of it be turned over. This is a PR nightmare for Figure 8/TLC/Robots, they would hand it over in a heartbeat.
Hippie Chick, I said the exact same thing. The crime he was charged with (10 counts) states the material has to have children engaged in sexual behavior. He could have easily had a pedo buddy or two on the crew and they had easy, nearly unlimited access to the kids.
Remember the note one of them wrote about staying out of their bedroom?
And Kate said they were their family and the kids loved and missed them. And she gave them access to the kids when she wasn't even there.
Good luck with that lawsuit, Kate. Since you Twittered on as if you didn't have a care in the world, it's pretty clear that YOU don't think any damage was done.
Someone asked if Kate lives in the snow storm area and yes, I live in Berks and it has been snowing here since about 8:30. Coming down pretty good right now, a wet, heavy snow.
I am pretty much speechless over the arrest of an editor from the show. This is what many of you had predicted all along. Makes me sick.
Administrator said
He may have copied and distributed every hour of it, but there is something so unsettling about hundreds of hours of your child's footage sitting at some production company in North Carolina. I would want it back in my hands.
I would demand every second of it be turned over
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The point is that the footage CAN'T be turned over. No one knows where it went, and therefore IT CAN'T BE RECOVERED.
Even if you got what's still in the TLC archives, you have NO assurance that you have all the tapes. In fact, you can be darn sure that you don't.
There isn't any recovery from this. It doesn't work that way.
My point is that Figure 8/TLC needs to be accountable for what is left of the footage.
It's obvious that this cannot be undone. But what CAN be done is for these production companies to take responsibility for where they keep unused footage of their kiddies, who has access to it, and what is done with it. They need to take responsibility.
I just realized the statement from TLC calling this shocking was not from TLC at all but from Figure 8 Films, the production company that was involved in making Jon and Kate.
WHAT THE F TLC??? CAN'T EVEN RESPOND TO THIS??? COWARDS.
And, what's scary is that TLC contracted Figure 8 to make this show, which then apparently contracted Blankinship to edit.
If things are being outsourced this much how as a parent can you possibly know what is going on with your footage???? Point is you DON'T which is another huge reason not to do a reality show!
Here's something extremely disturbing: All those times the little kids would come down stairs to be dressed in front of cameras, all those filmed bath times, all those filmed diper changes they were longer than showed on the show.The children WERE FILMED NAKED and that was later edited by this sick pedophille he may have been the one blurring for TLC.SO yeah, this guy has more than footage of the kids sitting around the table, he has footage of most(if not all, M&C were about 5 when they started filming) of the G kids naked, with their private parts exposed, which, to a pedophille is the best thing ever.Why oh why did these two parents had to dress or bathe the kids in front of cameras?
The sheeple are still delusional, they actually see not that much wrong with this guy working with the footage since, heck he wasn't actually near the kids.Frankly, I am starting to wonder how fit parents the sheeple are? Should we be worried about their kids as well? I mean they keep applauding KG actions..
Apparently, the sheeple disagree with FEDERAL LAW, which says that child pornography IS child abuse, even if you never laid eyes on the child in person. Even if the child NEVER KNEW.
$150,000 in damages PER PHOTO, SHEEPLE.
I don't know how anyone can say child pornography is okay because no children were harmed.
The unedited naked footage scares me the most. There could be hours of it. And an editor absolutely would be charged with blurring it out.
I almost don't want to know what he had in his possession. I am almost certain it includes that, that is a gold mine for someone like him.
Just think of the cutting room floor episode admin. And the never before seen episode.Those were all trips or events, hours of filming that never made it into and episode.Proof that those kids were filmed more than it's on the episodes. So yeah, imagine how much of inapropriate footage, that may have been cut just because it is inapropriate, this guy may possess.
Who did everyone think was producing this show? Mother Theresa?
shoulda been asked a long time ago said...
Who did everyone think was producing this show? Mother Theresa?
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Nope. We did ask this a long time ago. We've been asking this for years. We have said the word pedophile and suggested that this would be a magnet for pedophiles. Over and over and over.
The sheeple called us sick and disturbed for even thinking such a thing.
Who's sick and disturbed now?
Dry socket? OMG Dwindle! It helped when the dentist packed it with clove oil _ you can buy this. If you can get a prescription, ULTRAM (generic name tramadol) can work wonders on dental pain. If yo have any hard liquor (whisky is good) hold it in you mouths for a few minutes then spit it out. I am SO sorry.
Who's sick and disturbed now?
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Apparently still us, for blaming poor, poor, innocent Kate who couldn't have stopped this..Wait a minute!What if she had never signed a contract with TLC, especially after Jon expressed his feelings regarding pedophiles? huh, there's an interesting angle.
Sorry for the OT comment but dry socket is an emergency situation, as anyone who has ever experienced it knows.
After sampling a few of the sheeple comments I found myself beyond disgusted at the lack of concern about the children who have been victimized by this guy and his cohorts.
If any of them were mine, I would be beyond bullshit. Even though none of them are, I am byeond angry at TLC, Kate (for reasons that others have outlined nicely) and concerned for the children. ALL of the children.
New post up continuing the discussing.
At least Figure 8 said something.....where is everyone else??? TLC, Robots, the other families????
Where is everyone????????????
Dulcina, I now firmly believe that the sheeple are the type of people where if their daughter comes to them and says step dad molested them, they say oh now honey I'm sure that's not what happened, I'm sure you must have it all wrong. He loves you and would never do that. Now let's go do your homework.
Instead of freaking out, confronting him, taking her to the doctor and calling the cops.
They are disturbed enablers who will defend who they love to the death. It is DISTURBING that anyone, anyone would downplay how serious child pornography is and how it VICTIMIZES the children involved. ALL CHILDREN.
It's not okay and I will not let anyone try to tell me it is, period.
Dwindle said...
Do any of you guys know anything about 'dry-socket'? Sob.
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I had one years ago. My dentist packed it with a clove like medication iirc, every day for about 3-4 days and the pain went away - thankfully. Before he did that I was in misery. Get yourself back to the dentist so they can relieve the pain.
How do we know Blankenship didn't have something going with one of the film crew? The film crew, the daddy? One of them could have been a pedophile for all anyone knows & he could have filmed something...sick, without Kate knowing, since she left the kids alone with them all the damn time. There are so many wrong wrong wrong things with this scenario. (speculation)
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That's one of the first things I thought about, Hippie. I just didn't want to say anything because it's just too disgusting to imagine. Wasn't there a time when one of the crew went to the basement and filmed one of the twins who was just waking up? I also remember when they moved to the new house, Kate was cleaning the refrigerator, Jon was outside, and one of the crew members was alone with one of the boy tups in the upstairs bathroom.
Does anyone remember this?
I know the Duggar's buddy system leaves some of you cold, but there is the fact that most of the little kids would not be so alone with a cameraman. An older brother or sister would be close by, and at least partially responsible for the younger sibling. Heck, there would be a lot of older brothers and sisters around. Their system might turn out to be a good thing now.
Of course, no reality TV would have been the better choice.
I remember when one of the boys was not cooperating with Kate about going potty. It was time for him to urinate even if his little bladder was not full yet! By golly, Kate would have her way. So, she left him on the potty, turned out the light and closed the door. Who was filming this? Someone was in the bathroom with that little boy. The light could have been flipped on, and a camera person be in the light with the little boy for however long he/she wanted.
We have to remember we don't know if any Gosselin footage was involved in this. We may be just assuming that, even though it is a pretty fair assumption. Either way, the whole thought of any child being victimized this way
brings out the Mama Bear in me, and I'm nobody's
Mama. Truth be told, I have no maternal instincts at all. But even I know this filming of children is a slippery slope and needs to be very closely supervised.
We have to remember we don't know if any Gosselin footage was involved in this. We may be just assuming that, even though it is a pretty fair assumption. Either way, the whole thought of any child being victimized this way
brings out the Mama Bear in me, and I'm nobody's
Mama.
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Fido - I am Mama to several children, and I remember that particular scene with disgust and disbelief. I recall at the time my first thought was how could any mother leave her child alone on the potty, in the dark with the lights off. I watched with my mouth hanging open. Then I thought...wait, he's not alone. Someone is filming this. WHO is filming this, and my Mama Bear instincts kicked in. I also remember in one scene, and I'm not sure if it was the same episode, one of the little boy tups was caught on camera, naked from the waist down. Yes, you saw his bare rear end. I e-mailed TLC and filed a complaint with FCC at the time. I didn't know what the guidelines were for having a child filmed naked, with the footage shown on television. I never heard from them.
Kids Are People, Too said... My apologies if somebody has alredy mentioned this (lots of comments and I haven't read them all) but this certainly makes me look differently at Mady's anger issues and the behavior that lead to the two little ones being expelled from school. What have those poor children been living with??!?
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I don't understand your point. Mady's anger issues and the younger ones being expelled from school are attributed to what?
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I admit, I made that comment before reading that TLC denies that he ever had contact with the children; although, I'm not sure if that is true. So my comment was made with the scenario in mind that this man may have indeed had contact with the kids and made them feel uncomfortable in some way. Abuse, fear of a person, uncertainty about one's life sitatuion...all will lead to a child having anger issues and acting up at school. We all know most of their issues are because of Kate, but, in my opinion, this opens up other possibilities about what might have been going on.
Anyway, my apologies (again) for making a comment without reading what was already on the board.
I remember when one of the boys was not cooperating with Kate about going potty. It was time for him to urinate even if his little bladder was not full yet! By golly, Kate would have her way. So, she left him on the potty, turned out the light and closed the door. Who was filming this? Someone was in the bathroom with that little boy. The light could have been flipped on, and a camera person be in the light with the little boy for however long he/she wanted.
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One of the reasons I resolved to never watch this show was because of the way I felt the children were being exploited. Kate had made the local paper many times, much of it because of her demanding a full-time nurse from the state even after the insurance ran out, and her ungrateful attitude toward all the people who volunteered their help after the children were born. She was a celebrity here before she appeared on TV but not in a good way!
By reading the above account of her leaving a little boy alone on a potty in the dark intensifies my dislike for this woman. The fact that she did it with a camera person in the room makes it even worse. I work in the field of education, and many of the children I work with are not potty trained. It is so important to treat children with dignity and respect - and filming them on a potty seat in the dark is just plain disrespectful.
It is snowing here today and I am not going anywhere. Therefore I am glued to this site and this discussion. I disliked Kate Gosselin a lot before today. The fact that she is more interested in her Twitter Prison than this current crisis, says it all.
Dwindle...
A dentist can irrigate (?) it in 5 seconds. My brother had it once & he said it was so painful. He smoked a cigarette after getting a tooth pulled against dentist orders. He went to the dentist & he was all better in no time.
Feel better!!
~HC~
"not me. there is a kimmie that posts at rwa maybe that is who she banned? i also am not the kimmie you banned, well i am but you banned me and it wasn't me who had tried to post."
What did she say? She is not the Kimmie, but well, she is?
Kimmie, these kids were photographed naked. I saw it. I reported it to the FCC, along with the dates the episodes were shown. Jodi testified under oath that the kids were filmed naked. I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.
Sounds like Kimmie is still drinking the Kool-Aid. I wonder if she changed flavors.
It's one thing for a sheeple to say well this is not that bad because of a, b., or c.
Quite another to refuse to believe these children were filmed naked. THEY WERE. I SAW IT TOO.
"Every holiday, we clean out toys – broken is thrown away and salvageable toys are donated." - Kate
I call TOTAL BS that the kids are involved. We've already watched her clean the twins' room, tossing everything down the stairs and finishing up with 6 bags of supposed "trash", and also the yard sale episode when there were lots of toys donated that the tups still used.
She does it while they're at school or at Jon's so she can get rid of whatever and however much she wants, not giving a sh*t that the kids might still use or play with it, or if it had special meaning to them, and if they got upset about something being thrown away she'd send them to the corner for it.
I've stopped believing in much that is put out by these internet sites and some blogs as the truth. So much of it is unverified. I just read a comment on a blog in which a Kate fan was "outed" as having a criminal record. Upon looking up the actual story in a newspaper about the arrest, it was not that person at all, but someone with the same last name in another state.
Does there come a point when these people (both haters and sheeple) say "enough" and have the resources to sue for defamation? Does it ever end?
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