PlayStation Executive Fired After Pedophile Allegation - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 February 2022 / 3,207 Views
The PlayStation Network Senior Vice President George Cacioppo has been fired from the company after being caught in a amateur pedophilia sting video posted on the YouTube channel People v. Preds.
Sony has released a statement to Cnet confirming Cacioppo has been fired.
"We are aware of the situation and the employee in question has been terminated from employment," Sony said in a statement.
in the video Cacioppo spoke with a person who said they were 15 years old on Grindr, the social network app for gay, bi and trans people. The executive is alleged to have exchanged pictures and provided the decoy with his address in order to have sex.
Cacioppo had told the decoy his name was "Jeff." The decoy met Cacioppo outside his house, who is seen wearing a PlayStation 5 t-shirt.
It isn't known yet if law enforcement has been alerted to the incident. Cnet said the San Diego Police didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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You disgusting, filthy, piece of trash.
He lived in his world and played in Sony's. Now he's fired and going to prison.
Why is it that they all seem to have that "look" about them...
That's what I was thinking too
I truly never could understand why vile people like this guy would prey on children. If you're going to do your dirt....leave innocent children out of it. Good on Sony for firing this scumbag! They may toss this creep in gen pop and leak his charges to the public in prison.
Can the video games industry stop doing disgusting shit FOR FIVE MINUTES?
Really? Where? Which thread?
There was a thread about a Smash player Zero admitting that he asked for nude pics of a girl who was 14 when he was 19. Some people thought this was a case of "boys will be boys" and was really no biggie. Oddly, they were some of the people who clearly bang the QAnon drum. But then, maybe if you secretly want to do those things, its easy to imagine others secretly do too.
As a side note, Zero now denies the allegation (although using the sketchy phrasing that he never "received" nude pictures from a minor), but the people were not arguing about that, they were arguing that it wasn't a big deal either way, with some even portraying Zero as the victim who is being unfairly maligned for his "sexual orientation".
There needs to be a castration law for pedo's
64 years old. He should just retire.
Edit: forget this part, it was dumb.
So glad this scumbag is fired. Now to meet the justice system next.
Waiting for the comments "this happens at all companies" while excluding Blizzard from that rule.
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