Daniel Mattson in the News

[kainosktisis]

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/...cused-of-past-relationship-with-a-minor-26706

"On Monday, a man whom CNA has identified as Jonathan Wright alleged on Twitter that he and Mattson began in the early 2000s an online relationship that eventually included sexual interaction via webcam and phone. No physical contact is alleged to have taken place.

Wright said Mattson provided him with prepaid telephone callings in order to keep the phone sex a secret from his parents. The two spoke almost daily for three or four years, Wright alleged.

He said that the relationship began when he was 13 and Mattson was around 30.

“He knew I was only 13,” Wright tweeted Jan. 28."

I’d first heard about him watching “The Desire of the Everlasting Hills.” This news is disheartening.

 

[Beryllos]

It is unfortunate that allegations by Twitter are sufficient to ruin someone’s reputation. The CNA article claims not to know if a complaint has been brought to the police or other competent authorities. Why then did they publish it? Accusation by Twitter alone is tantamount to gossip. This process, including the CNA article, is a shame to us all.

 

[Beryllos]

The CNA article claims not to know if a complaint has been brought to the police or other competent authorities.

More to this point:

In their article, CNA spreads all the juicy details first.

Not until paragraph 12 do we read “Mattson was not available for comment.”

Not until paragraph 14 do we read “It is not yet clear whether Mattson will face charges in connection to the man’s allegation.”

That wording is what I call weasel words. “It is not clear” means “So far we have not fact-checked this… but we want to be the first to publish it.”

As I said before, CNA’s process is a shame.