Kid Accused of Being “Grand Theft Auto Sex Beast” Convicted and Sentenced
by Dylan Duarte on November 6, 2008 at 9:45 pm
When I saw the headline “Grand Theft Auto Sex Beast is Caged,” I knew I had to report it. I mean, not only is it more sensationalist anti-video game bullshit, but there was a sex beast on the loose! Thank God he was caged!
Ryan Chinnery of Kent, England, was arrested in September for sexually assaulting four women. Yesterday, he was convicted for two of the attacks and sentenced to at least four years in youth custody.
So here’s the deal: this kid went out cruising for ladies of the night and, in a two month span, attacked four women in a sexual manner (that weren’t hookers at all). In the worst case, he grabbed a 42-year-old woman by the throat and they toppled down an embankment into a river, and she broke her arm in the process.
The kid was finally caught when police matched DNA found on one of the women to him. At first he claimed to be at home playing on his computer when the attacks happened, but he eventually broke down in tears and admitted.
The kid claimed to have played a lot of Grand Theft Auto, but nowhere in the article does he allude to mimicking the game or the game influencing his actions in any way. Still, the prosecutor was quoted as saying that GTA “may go some way to explaining his attitude towards women.”
Admittedly, you can do some pretty nasty things in the Grand Theft Auto games, including beating and killing hookers. This is obviously the connection that the prosecution is trying to draw, but I have another theory.
While it is true that you can abuse hookers in Grand Theft Auto, it’s a very small portion of the game. Now, the article doesn’t say which Grand Theft Auto Chinnery was a fan of, so I can’t say whether or not the feature was entirely optional. I can’t remember what – if any – mandatory missions included interactions with prostitutes. Still, from a gamer’s standpoint, hookers are far from the main draw of the Grand Theft Auto games. So why would Chinnery choose to emulate this aspect of the game?
Grand Theft Auto didn’t invent the concept of paying women for sex. In fact, prostitution has been called “the world’s oldest profession.” Nor did the video game series invent the concept of molestation. Molestation is a very real problem that happens on a daily basis.
What if Chinnery was a sexual predator before he even fired up a Grand Theft Auto game for the first time? If we’re to believe that his actions were indeed caused by GTA, wouldn’t he be shooting people and running over pedestrians with his car, two acts which are much more prevalent in the game than beating hookers? Or perhaps he was drawn to that aspect due to a pre-existing problem?
The Grand Theft Auto games are rated Mature for a reason. Immature, impressionable idiots like Ryan Chinnery shouldn’t have access to the games, especially if they aren’t mentally stable to begin with. I’m not claiming that Grand Theft Auto played no part in Chinnery’s decision – I’m saying that if it did, that part was simply pushing him over the edge, the same way a violent movie or maybe a porn flick would have. Yet you don’t see the film industry or the adult industry causing the same ruckus that the videogame industry has. In the end, this kid’s actions are a result of his sick and twisted mind and I am truly glad that he got what was coming to him.
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11 Comments » |
on November 6, 2008 9:55 pm
Dan and I were just talking, and we decided that we both love his vanilla Oreo ring. Hotness!!!
on November 6, 2008 9:55 pm
Second place goes to the mystical hat rotation.
on November 6, 2008 9:56 pm
Also, is that a Band-aid under his ring? Fingers not manly enough to support its Oreo goodness? Pathetic.
on November 6, 2008 9:57 pm
Too bad his “pimp hand” won’t be the part of his body getting put to work in jail. Now he’ll know what it feels like to be on the other end.
on November 6, 2008 11:52 pm
Will the real Slim Shady please stand up. What a noob some geeks just need some TLC from they’re parents. Thats Brittian for you
on November 7, 2008 12:12 am
That kid is going to learn what a real hooker has to go through in prison. Are video games to blame? I think this kid was plenty fucking stupid before the game. I blame Aurthur C. Clarke, how ’bout that media?
on November 7, 2008 1:29 am
He’ll be someone’s Oreo in jail.
on November 7, 2008 3:16 am
Classic Epic Fail picture right there.
on November 7, 2008 5:21 am
So, what would he be doing if he’d been playing Sim City? :)
on November 7, 2008 10:21 am
The only mission I remember from GTA IV with a hooker in it is where you pick up the girl in the park who offers you sex in exchange for drug money and you help her out and buy her a train ticket back to her family. Or did I get the nice version whilst everyone else was out murdering hookers?
on November 7, 2008 2:00 pm
That kid looks like a douche. I hope he gets his teeth knocked out. GTA Is not to blame Its the parents and Him. That’s Britain for you??? Wesley its not just Britain you get Idiots like that. Sick son of a bitch.