Anya Cain (6:24)
Yes. They were like, wait, we don't, we don't know. I was like, wow, they're not really paying attention to the old cases. No, they're in Georgia, Anya. So, whoops. Anyways, this is Marion county, but in Florida. And I imagine they're all named after Francis Mary in the Revolutionary War. General. But anyways, let's, let's get, let's focus, let's not get historical. This is a very disturbing case, but I think it's important to cover things like this because I've said it before to words to this effect. We've had experts say it on the show in the past. If a predator, if a pedophile, if a child predator, pedophile wanted to access a child, they would have to do some sort of forcible abduction or insinuate themselves into the life of a child through religion, through sports, through school, through family friends, through relations. You know, family relations. Nowadays they don't have to do any of that. They can just get on their phone and they can get on websites and the website that. I don't, I don't know what this is, honestly. Like, I, I, I, I. It seems to be some sort of, like, gaming site called Roblox. And that's kind of the site of where this latest thing happened. And what's especially disturbing to me is in this case, the alleged perpetrator is also very young himself. The accused perpetrator in this Florida case is Christian Scribbon, who is only 17 years old. That may sound. We are often shocked when young people do crimes, right, because there's this perception that younger people are more innocent. But the reality in life, the kind of cold reality, is that young men perpetrate most violent and sexual crimes. And that's the kind of time period where someone's going to make a choice to really Hurt other people and mess their lives. That doesn't mean all perpetrators are young men. It certainly. Women can perpetrate horrible crimes, women can perpetrate sexual crimes, Older men can do things, whatever. But I'm just saying young men, that's again, when people are usually gonna be acting out violently and sexually. So we have to sort of let go of this narrative that like, that's somehow shocking. It shouldn't shock you. If you read about crimes, it really shouldn't shock you. And some of the most brutal and disturbing crimes are going to be perpetrated by younger people. Maybe there's an answer to that in developing brains and they're not quite, they don't really have all their reasoning powers yet. But in my opinion, there's the certain things that maybe can be excused by that. And then there are other things that are so calculated that they're not. So this kid Christian, well, he's not a kid. This, this alleged perpetrator in Marion County, Florida is now charged with quote, directing a sexual performance by a child, utilizing a computer to solicit a child while misrepresenting age and unlawful use of a two way communications device. So what happened was on February 28th of this year, MCSO got a tip from the national center for Missing and Exploited Children, ncmec. And NCMEC said, hey, it looks like a user in Marion County, Florida is telling kids, telling little children on Roblox, the video game site, I guess or app or something to this is really disturbing. But to basically go and molest their younger siblings and produce child sexual abuse materials. So this is also part of the modus operandi of the, the modern day child predator. It's not necessarily about taking a child and forcing them to directly participate in child sexual abuse materials. It's because these kids have phones. It's directing them to film it themselves. It's like they're, they're outsourcing it to their own victims, which also is so messed up because then that causes guilt from these victims. And they're like, oh, I did this. You know, it's like they're just being manipulated by these people. So obviously really disturbing and serious. Marion County's major crimes detective Heinrich Henrik Osted, he investigated and found that the messages were coming from this guy Scribbon and they've served a warrant on his home. And that occurred on April 16, 2025. Not really sure what the reason for the delay was. I imagine there was some, some level of trying to figure out who was doing this, you know, and there May that may have accounted for that. So Detective Ossed then interviewed Scribbon after the SWAT team kind of raided the home. And Scribbon kind of gave over his user information and confirmed that he was the owner of that account that was referenced in the tip. And he quote. Throughout the interview, Scribbon admitted to proactively searching for children on Robovox daily whom he would instruct to engage in sexual activity with their siblings and create csam. After establishing a connection on Roblox, he would move the conversation to either discord or text messaging. Scribbon advised that most of the CCM he demanded was used for sexual gratification. However, in one specific instance, he just wanted proof that the sexual abuse was actually occurring as he directed. Scribbin went on to admit that he would misrepresent his age to appear more acceptable to young children and that he has done this for four to five children a day for the past year. Further investigation to identify the victims in this case is ongoing. End quote. A couple other things we learned from the Kagan Klein case. Identifying victims in cases like this can be very difficult. People delete their account, they move on. That's, you know, it can be complicated to have people come forward and also classic, classic meet, Meet a victim somewhere and then try to get them onto a server that's more private. Kagan Klein would meet people on Instagram, move them over onto Snapchat. This guy was going on Roblox, getting them onto text or discord. It's all about, you know, further isolating the child, further kind of getting them into a place where that it works for the predator and not for them. And it's really, really disturbing to me. Like, the idea of, like, a predator directing kids to assault their own siblings. Like, the amount of, like, victimization there is just unfathomable. And the sheer amount he was doing, sheer amount of times that this happened is sick. So if anyone has any information on this, contact Detective Osthead at 535-2351-4710. I would also say, like, talk to your kids about everything with. With this stuff. I mean, like, I don't think we're doing children any favors by not telling them about stuff like this. You don't necessarily have to go into graphic, disturbing detail, but, like, I don't know, having open relationships with your kids where they can tell you anything or tell you about a creepy. When this happens to kids, they get embarrassed. Even if they're not, even if they don't fall prey to this, they they might interact with someone like this, and they may just be, like, creeped out, and it makes them feel like they did something wrong. Letting them know like it's not them. And even if they did something, even if they sent something to a person like this, like, they can talk about it with. With you, and they can be trust. Like, there can be that trust there, and that it's not the end of the world, and you can get through it. I think that's all really important. And I also think some of these websites, like Roblox, I mean, what. What the. What, like these. These companies are making money off of children and then putting them in harm's way. I guess. Like, there's. I mean, that's kind of what's going on. And I think there needs to be a level of accountability and a level of action that I don't know if we've really seen it.
