u/-catharina

Information on the daughter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essie_Mae_Washington-Williams

There's an entire Wiki article on this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_McDonough_(cardiologist)

At least he took himself out. Thank goodness for small miracles.

Kevin Hedgpeth, the 48-year-old Hanahan City Councilmember and Mayor Pro Tem, was charged with possession and production of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) for allegedly communicating with and paying children to send him CSAM videos and images.

The politician’s Cash App and PayPal accounts paid approximately 47 accounts that were associated with minors or suspected of selling CSAM, WCIV reported. The investigation showed that he allegedly stored the images on an iCloud account registered to his personal e-mail address and then accessed them with his home WiFi and personal phone networks.

Also, that's a rough 24.

The alleged incidents occurred between 2005 and 2010 while Essert served as a teacher in Sharonville and an instructor at the Young Marines, a national youth program for children ages 8 through high school.

(Mothership, season 3, episode 20)

I had this episode come on at the hotel I'm staying at and hoooo my god this episode was a mess. Early Mothership episodes seemed to be really hit or miss in terms of either quality, acting/characters, or the plot but this episode missed the mark on all 3. I don't know if it's because this episode is from 1993, but the way it's almost hurryingly paced and how they didn't bother to redo/double check things is just... rough.

• First thing I noticed - the victims are stated in the very beginning of the episode as being immigrants from Hungary, but throughout the rest of the episode they're all from Romania??? Yes, I'm aware of the historical relations between Romania and Hungary but... pick one lol. Especially since they all have Romanian last names. So score 1 for having a major plot hole.
• That female judge throwing the entire case against the main perpetrator out, because of some dubiously-obtained evidence that she then proceeded to throw out...? Letting a murderer walk back out on the streets instead of just telling the cops to find new evidence???
• This is a minor nitpick but the way the actress for the widow/the aunt keeps pronouncing the second perp (the nephew/son)'s name just irritates me so bad. His name is Leon. It's said like LEE-on. Everyone else in the episode addresses him as LEE-on. She keeps going back and forth between saying LEE-on and LAY-on and she's the ONLY one that keeps calling him LAY-on.
• The terrible Romanian accents by American actors. Leon's is especially noticeable and it's hard for me to take him seriously. He keeps pausing between words to make sure he doesn't slip into his real American accent.
• The aunt literally saying on the stand "I don't wanna talk about Leon, I don't want to be here!" in response to a direct question she was asked and neither the judge nor Stone tell her off or treat her as a hostile witness??
• The defense attorney's wacko defense being that Leon was not guilty by reason of "cultural insanity" (and the weird portrayal of Romanians/Romanian immigrants at large as violent throughout this, tbqh) instead of the true reason (which would've been just as compelling of an argument, just as much grounds for a "mental defect" defense, and would've made the jury WAY more sympathetic to Leon) was that Leon was being emotionally abused by his father and that's why he killed him???
• Stone and Robinette just randomly believing what the fraudster Tommy Zanescu has to say about Leon??? Not even considering that he'd lie just to get a reduced sentence, especially after he was directly promised that seconds earlier by Stone??
• Said story being what causes Leon to dramatically break down and confirm everything at their meeting when they had legitimately no proof but Tommy Zanescu's word??? In the very beginning of the scene Leon literally says Zanescu is lying. Like...???
• Leon: "He put his hand on my shoulder and talked to me like a son, and said he was proud of me" Leon 5 seconds later: "He laughed at me, he called me a snitch and just turned away from me and treated me like I was nothing, then I just kept stabbing him until he didn't move anymore"
• Stone agrees to a first-degree manslaughter charge on the basis of Extreme Emotional Disturbance proposed by Leon's defense attorney, due to the emotional abuse he suffered, but Leon was looking at a first-degree/premeditated murder charge and a heftier sentence with the cultural insanity defense?? If I was Leon or his aunt I would've fired that attorney for incompetence because wth. But Stone even agreeing to that charge is bonkers because according to his own confession, Leon did indeed have malice aforethought when he picked up the knife to kill his dad. His dad WATCHED Leon pick the knife up and laughed at him, Leon had ample opportunity to put the knife down but he didn't, and chose to stab his father, which makes it premeditated murder. Or second-degree murder at the very least, since Leon was provoked by his dad laughing at him, I suppose. And also: it's pretty clearly spelled out that Leon knew his dad would murder his uncle—that's why Leon told his dad about his uncle turning him into the cops in the first place. Because he wanted his dad's approval for facilitating the murder of his uncle. So why Leon wasn't charged IN ANY WAY with his uncle's murder is beyond me. Also: Leon lied to them about witnessing his dad torturing people at the prison (the basis for his "culturally insane" defense), so why would Stone even agree to a deal with someone who's already lied and could as well be lying now??
• This episode honestly just seemed EXTREMELY rushed. Hence all the inconsistencies, the lack of resolution for the plot, the bad acting that doesn't appear as though anybody tried their hardest, etc.

I will say this though: the guy who plays Leon is extremely hot. But he hangs his mouth open in every scene and it's like, CLOSE YOUR MOUTH, DUDE. BEFORE YOU CATCH FLIES.

If you read this whole thing, I appreciate you lol

Because lord knows this show has a lot of them 🤪