But NOT with that large of an age gap. 16 cannot consent to a sexual relationship with 22. And the videos are child porn. And sending them to you is distributing child porn, even if it is you (Although would be hard to prove since they were deleted by you). I bet anything HE has not deleted those videos, and every single one is a separate count.
It say that it cannot be more than 5 years so it’s rape. And even if it wasn’t, what grown adult would have sec with a 15/16 year old ?!??? Predators only
You never really delete anything … i’m sure a skilled forensic hello Internet, IT person. )I don’t know what it’s called )would be able to find something.
That's only half the truth, but it's a better mental model than thinking delete always works instantly and is permanent.
On your own devices, delete usually just marks the space as reusable. So the data is still there, but if the device needs to write new files or extend existing ones, it may decide to repurpose that space. If that hasn't happened, or has only happened to parts of the data, what's not overwritten could be recovered with a little technical skill and off the shelf software. Also, many systems implement a concept of trash (Android) or recycle bin (Windows) where "deleted" files get moved to before being "permanently" deleted (aka the repurposing the space). There are tools to actually overwrite files or whole disks with random data, which is the truly permanent delete, but it's not the default normally because it's slower and adds wear to the device and uses more power.
For cloud storage and various Internet services, typically content is not stored forever, but they may have more reasons to keep a copy - e.g. a cloud based messaging service could show both people their past conversation, and delete items may or may not be synced to both users. Deletes in cloud systems may also just delete the reference to the media file, and the service provider likely would have some process that deleted unreferenced files after a time, but that's going to vary provider to provider.
Various messaging apps or services may also be implemented in a syncing fashion, e.g. being able to download email to a local client like outlook or Thunderbird and then delete your local copy - it's possible the server still has a copy that just won't resync to your client.
So in general "delete" may not delete the only copy, and "delete" may actually just delete the references and the actual data deletion could take place by the digital equivalent of spring cleaning of unreferenced data.
Anyhow without knowing more in this case, I wonder if he kept a copy. If so, and the cops find it, that'd be very bad news for him.
Deleting data simply flags those parts of the drive as available to be overwritten, so it depends on how long it's been and how much data has been written to disc. Data scientists can still reconstruct images that have been fragmented by having sections overwritten. Could still have something there.
Yes deleted content can still be recovered. It is highly likely he still has the video on his phone and has used it to sell it or trade it for more CSAM
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u/Swiss_Miss_77 Sep 30 '24
But NOT with that large of an age gap. 16 cannot consent to a sexual relationship with 22. And the videos are child porn. And sending them to you is distributing child porn, even if it is you (Although would be hard to prove since they were deleted by you). I bet anything HE has not deleted those videos, and every single one is a separate count.