{"id":8657,"date":"2017-06-16T10:10:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T14:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=8657"},"modified":"2017-06-16T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T00:21:09","slug":"youtube-star-accused-of-child-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/youtube-star-accused-of-child-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube star accused of child porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By NEYDJA PETITHOMME<\/p>\n<p>Alternative pop vocalist from Chicago and youtube star with 543,600 subscribers was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>According to CNN, Austin Jones, 24, had been arrested for child pornography on Friday. Jones is a famous for his acapella cover video. Jones \u00a0was accused of encouraging two minors to send him sexually explicit video. As told, Jones asked two 14-year-old girls to film themselves dancing while exposing themselves in a sexual manner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just trying to help you!&#8221; Jones wrote in a message. &#8220;I know you&#8217;re trying your hardest to prove you&#8217;re my biggest fan. And I don&#8217;t want to have to find someone else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities found dozens of pornographic videos in Jones\u2019 phone when he was arrested and taken into custody at the Chicago O\u2019Hare International Airport. Jones said he was deeply distraught about his mistake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not something that I am proud of,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, this was not Jones\u2019 first rodeo.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, he posted an apology video to his YouTube fans account after being allegedly accused of asking fans to send him videos of themselves twerking in a sexual manner.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this situation is that authorities needed to nip in the bun since 2015. Due two the fact that authorities needed to wait until another little girl is harmed to take action is absurd. This situation needed to be solved since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Force him to take down his YouTube channel or fine him a penalty that will cause him to never do it again, but to accept that the fact that he say it is the cause of depression that forced him to to take action in such a way, is illogical.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was charged with two felony counts of production of child pornography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By NEYDJA PETITHOMME Alternative pop vocalist from Chicago and youtube star with 543,600 subscribers was arrested. According to CNN, Austin Jones, 24, had been arrested for child pornography on Friday. Jones is a famous for his acapella cover video. Jones &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/youtube-star-accused-of-child-pornography\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[593],"tags":[24,6,29],"class_list":["post-8657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neydja-petithomme","tag-crime-news","tag-entertainment-news","tag-television-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8661,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions\/8661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}