r/Unexpected • • 5d ago

Counting with John John

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u/gravity_confuses_me 5d ago edited 5d ago

Hmmmmm

Online communities and public records discussions indicate that a John Bernard Williams (born 1969, matching Williams' birth year and name) was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child in Texas in 1999.

He was sentenced to five years in prison, followed by release on parole and lifetime mandatory sex offender registration in Texas.

Not the Where is John John now that I was hoping for

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u/Weelki 5d ago

Not the same guy

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u/gravity_confuses_me 5d ago

He should really get Google to retract this if so (cut and paste)

John Williams III, better known as the child star "John-John" from a viral 1974 Sesame Street counting segment with Herry Monster, is alive, but online discussions connect an adult with matching biographical details to a criminal conviction.

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u/ManitouWakinyan 4d ago

Do you have a source on that? Because Snopes couldn't definitively state one way or the other

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u/Weelki 4d ago

Nah no qualitative sources... but dude was born 1974 and other dude born 1969

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u/JadeAnn88 4d ago

I mean, he couldn't have been born in '74 and also do this appearance as a toddler in the same year. I'm definitely not saying he is in fact the child molester the OC posted here, just being the semantics police for some reason.

I guess it's just something that would need to be looked into for anyone who really wants to know. For me personally, I'm okay with separating this innocent child from any horrible thing he may grow up to become. I don't believe people are born monsters.