{"id":7308,"date":"2019-02-09T04:10:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T04:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/youtube-u-turn-over-child-abuse-singer\/"},"modified":"2019-02-09T04:10:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T04:10:49","slug":"youtube-u-turn-over-child-abuse-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/youtube-u-turn-over-child-abuse-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube U-turn over child abuse singer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Austin Jones\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/23B0\/production\/_105563190_63186.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Austin Jones<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">YouTube has decided to delete singer Austin Jones&#8217;s channel, after he admitted exchanging sexually explicit images and videos with underage girls.<\/p>\n<p>The video-sharing site was criticised after it left the singer&#8217;s videos online, despite him pleading guilty to charges in court. <\/p>\n<p>Other social networks were quick to remove his content but YouTube had decided not to act.<\/p>\n<p>It has now deleted the 26-year-old musician&#8217;s channel.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Custody call<\/h2>\n<p>Jones was arrested in 2017 and charged with possession of indecent images of children.<\/p>\n<p>He had gained more than half a million subscribers on YouTube uploading cover versions of hit songs.<\/p>\n<p>But he was accused of exchanging sexually explicit images and videos with underage girls between 2010 and 2017. Court documents said he had conversations with six different 14 and 15-year-old girls.<\/p>\n<p>In one conversation, he is said to have told one of the teenagers that she needed to prove that she was &#8220;his biggest fan&#8221; by sending him videos of herself.<\/p>\n<p>He also asked young fans to record videos of themselves dancing sexually. Videos of Jones demonstrating how to &#8220;twerk&#8221; were exposed online.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty to the charges on 1 February and will be sentenced in May.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors asked for him to be taken immediately into custody, but the judge allowed him to remain free on bail so he can go for psychiatric counselling.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube said it took claims of sexual misconduct seriously. It also said it did remove content when a person was convicted of a crime &#8220;in some cases&#8221;, particularly if the videos were related to the crime committed.<\/p>\n<p>The video-sharing site stopped Jones earning advertising revenue from his videos in 2017, when he was arrested.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-47170759\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Austin Jones YouTube has decided to delete singer Austin Jones&#8217;s channel, after he admitted exchanging sexually explicit images and videos with underage girls. The video-sharing site was criticised after it left the singer&#8217;s videos online, despite him pleading guilty to charges in court. 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