Grooming is grooming. Doesnt matter the gender. Doesnt matter if ur buddies say "thats cool bro". Kids should be protected from adults who take advantage of the fact that kids are still developing their minds so they dont know what's happening until it's too late.

of course they started “publicly” dating once he turned 18. they probably did shit before then. she’s disgusting

If roles were reversed this would have been everywhere

Dude this is coping because if he was 32 when they met and she was 16 you wouldn't even question it you would 100% call it what it is grooming. People need to stop allowing women to get away with this crap.

It doesn’t matter if the minor consented or they start dating openly after 18. It’s still grooming and akiko should’ve lost custody of the baby the second she gave birth. She groomed the father and the kid is having their child hood ruined as well.

And no mention that she would technically be a sex offender. I can't stand how in today's society when you get a younger man with an older woman he's patted on the back whereas when it's reversed not everybody gets to pitchforks out in the Torches lit we need to do better folks

Is it even possible for an adult to be in a relationship with someone in their mid to late teens without grooming them?

What’s wrong with people these days… who is with me..

"These are all rumors" and yet if the roles were reversed the dude would've been jailed no questions asked

This is gross tbh my middle son has just turned 17 and if he started dating a 32yr old I’d have a huge problem with it.

I hate how woman predators get away more often than male predators. PREDATORS ARE PREDATORS.

Edp445 but if it was a girl:

Society these days: Boy (minor) groomed by female (adult) : Nah it's okay. Girl (minor) groomed by male (adult) : Get him to prison.

Still weird af to hook up with someone 15ish years younger than you

yikes uh he was a kid and she was a full grown adult

This is the same thing as Paul Walker was 32 and his girlfriend was 16. Nasty stuff.

So basically akiko is like female version of Leonardo DiCaprio 😂

Poor Heaton, I feel bad for the guy. He always looks stressed even on the set of stranger things I never though this was going on with him ❤

If Santa is not here, then that’s not good 🤨

"met at 16 when she was 32"...."dated when he turned 18"..."no ill will from either party"....man, women can get away with ANYTHING

I've seen people respond to a 22 year old dating an 18 year old with "IS IT GROOMING!?!?!?"

People would care about it more if she was the 16 year old

Look at his eyes. He looks so defeated and sad. Poor Heaton.

Finally bro not keeping us edging on the 3rd slide

Wtf kind of 32 year old woman fs around with a 16 year old boy?!

This is messed up. Bring Equal justice back.

Remember, men can be victims too. All denying that fact does it help abusers get away with it.

I find it especially bizarre for women to find young boys attractive. For thousands of years women have been attracted to men who can protect and provide. To look at a child as a dating option is creepy.

Enough of this double standard seriously this *IF* it’s true is disgusting.

This is truly a "Hey Apple!" moment 💀

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As someone who meet their girlfriend when I was 17 and she was 35 I can say....the moment I turned 18 I was not an adult, and certainly not an adult with the life experience that would have counted up to her being 36. You can not tell me you, dear Sterling, go and look at an 18 year old and think, yeah that sure is an adult and I can apply the same standards I apply to myself. That sure is an absolut mature person. Now, if he was 28 and she was 45, the age gap would still be a big gap, but he would have had some adult years and experiences under his belt and would have had the chance to experience relationships with people more similiar to his age...they would be both adults with adult experiences. This here, him 18 and her being 34, this is icky. I myself did not see it that way when I was 18 and my GF was 36, I only realised years later how fricked up that was and how much damage it has done me

if the roles were reversed. There would be hell to pay. Men get the more prudent punishment. Always. 18 and 32 is crazy.

Bro looks more depressed than a guy who just got divorced and lost his wife and kids and this makes me feel bad

Seeing alot of support for PDFiles in this comment section. "They love each other just leave him alone" "if he consented its ok" gtfoh ya sickos.

Put that woman in jail

Even if its not grooming i dont think people more than 10 years apart should date at all, it kind of creeps me out like imagine someone saying "i was a teenager when my boyfriend was born" thats just weird

Oh if it was a man, we live in sad times where if men were SA they would have to man up.. n she’s not in jail? Disgusting

For some reason when he said 18, I thought he was gonna say they dated from 1810 to 1900 I’m like what

Why does that dude look like Leon Kennedy 💀

This is why i hate this society.

Literally Georgie and Mandy from Young Sheldon 😅

rumors? the evidence is clear dude. I bet you'd change your tone if he was the 32 year old and she was 16. don't be an idiot

It's amazing how much different people react when it's a guy vs a girl.

Thats a child and a fully grown adult. Need I say more?

regardless if he doesn't show "ill will" towards her, whenever someone 'starts' dating someone AS SOON AS they turn 18, they are a creep. i feel like Charlie either knows that it was wrong and keeps it quiet so his son can live a good life, or he is too brainwashed by her to even think its wrong

"Ill will from either party" yea that should make it okay....

Bro this is grooming..doesnt matter if the victim is male or female..

16?! That means Charlie was my age when they met.....

I’m sorry to distract from the main topic which I believe is disgusting as well but doesn’t he look like he could play a live action Leon from Resident Evil?🔥🔥

If she was 16 and he was 32 everyone get angry

She may not have forced him, but he does NOT look happy in that photo at all.

She should be arrested

All the ppl talking bout some "16 is the age of consent where im from" just because something is legal does not make it okay and if u have to base something like that off of laws rather than have basic decency to understand its wrong then youre the worst kind of person. Im 20 and i think it would be disgusting if someone even my age tried to be with a 16 year old, 17, or even 18. Have some fucking morals ppl pleaseee

As a woman, women should not be allowed to get away with any crime, Men are always guilty until proven innocent. women are always innocent untill proven guilty.

Yes hello. I'm the groomer hunter. Coordinates please.

If that was a 16 year old girl, people would be losing their minds over this ALOT more

16 and 32?🤮🤮

And here y’all thought Drake was weird…

They met when he was 16 and she was 32 and they had a child a little later naw that's foul💀

Idk why y'all are so overreacted. Maybe I grew it up in different places. But for me, even at 16, knowing some of Charlie's past, he did pretty well try to be grown up adult and become independent. He probably matured fast. I may not know 100% but I think Charlie knew what he was doing. I don't think it's against his will or he's traumatised or regretted. Even after that he played role in a successful series and show us at least from outside he is currently having a successful life and his life doesn't seems ruined by it. He still meet his son sometimes. So Akiko didn't do anything wrong to me. It's not even illegal in UK (age of consent is 16 in UK). Idc if they did it. Some people just matured fast. Even in my place, marriage under 18 is still acceptable but almost no one married even before 22 at least due to changed lifestyle and way of growing up.

Someone actually raised a really good point: I don’t know anything about this actor but holy shit WHERE WAS HIS PARENTS? Did they seriously have no problem with their son being groomed by a 32 year old? And don’t tell me he managed to hide it because I don’t believe that for a second, kids can barely hide anything from their parents let alone this guy being as famous as he is.

This should be a- 🎅 🎅 NO DONT DO IT!!

Remember: Don't watch this at night 🤷🏾‍♂️

Why did I think the 32 was 82💀💀💀😭😭😭😭

My dad is 10 years older than my mother

I thought that was “John Connor” 😅 from Terminator 2

My girlfriend...oh wait, i don't have one

Bro looks like harry Styles

The dude didn't even looked like he got a haircut💀

I thought the last slide that the baby was the dude on some Secret Life of Walter Mitty shit

I thought it said my girlfriend forced me to eat my dog

I’m glad people are calling out Sterling for being dismissive because if the roles were reversed there’s no way he would have done that.

Her defense : but 16* 2 = 32

Persona 5 moment

Here in Philippines there's an actor who married a Child star back in the day and their age gap was 40 years I think. That guy actor has many wives and they're alive. About a year I guess he divorced his 3rd wife and married another woman and that be the child star won in the 90's there's a picture of them back that he carries his future wife winning the pageant 😂

Reading the comments hurt me, even if im not black its like reading racist joke while im black

If there's no evil being done or none are harmed then what they did is perfectly fine regardless of what anyone thinks, this framing makes it seem like she destroyed/ruined him when there is no evidence leading to that, man some people are strange indeed, like why lie??

I always wondered why looked so Depressed as a Person in General. Tell me im not the only one who thought he looks Unwell 😮

This man is early to sterling's new post, he just doesn't know it yet 🎅🎅🦀

The officers in south park: "NICE"

Charlie looks like Harry Styles

The show stranger things scared the living shit outa me when I was 8

but that’s still grooming??.. age and gender doesn’t determine a victims trauma - SA of any sort (especially CSA) can literally cause the brain to stunt development and growth.

At her grown age? Absolutely disgusting going for a 16 year old. Behind bars is where she belongs. How did his parents let that happen???

Once you're 18 you're on your own and legal.

She pre-ordered

16 and 32? Shes 13 years older than him, the math aint mathing

I agree that 16 or even 18 is too young for a 32 year old. I just have a hard time believing his age.

"His son Archie" Me: HOLY SHIT ARCHIE SONIC?

You know they done some crap before if they dated right when they where 18

Music??

Look at his eyes. Dude looks dead inside.

32? She looks 50

Nothing is okay with this. Its like Bobby Brown and Drake. You might wanna think again about what you say. Of course your not gonna get the facts online or any public made evidence. Grooming is disgusting. What if it was your son or daughter?

32 year old man meeting up with 16 year old girl: EWW, GROSS, WTF?! GET THIS MAN ARRESTED ASAP! 32 year old woman meeting up with 16 year old boy: "I don't see nothing wrong~"

Bro I have a Classmate that stays silent all the time about her parents, she was forced to say it when our teacher told us to say our parent's story so her Father is in his early or late 50s and a Lawyer meanwhile her Mother which is a housewife is between her early or mid 30s and my Classmate is 14!

“There’s no ill will between both parties” Oh THANK GOD

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