The Verified Story of The Gulf Coast Stapletons

0:00 Hey, everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and I'm back with a kind of breaking news scandal, if you will, and it's in relation to a very trending couple of TikTokers. I guess you would describe this couple as influencers. I kind of hesitate to say. I don't know how much influence he and his wife actually have, but they have a hell of a following on TikTok. And apparently, and I'm not gonna say allegedly, because it's not allegedly anymore, but apparently he is pleaded guilty to some pretty horrific shit, the male side of this couple, and that's what we're going to talk about today. We're also going to talk about the backlash of that, and we're going to tell you who this guy is and what led to a seemingly fall off of a cliff for this guy, and really this email that we're going to bring up today as well. So the guy's name is Joshua David Stapleton.

1:06 He's thirty nine years old, and he's known as half of a couple on TikTok known as the Gulf Coast Stapletons. Now a lot of people on TikTok followed this couple and their exploits if you will, be a lavish lifestyle that they portrayed. Anyway on TikTok. They had amassed nearly one hundred thousand followers on the platform and they have more than a million likes on their videos and many many millions of views. Now, if you were to look up great looking couple in the dictionary, maybe even if you google it, this would be the couple that will pop up. Joshua or josh as he goes by, is a good looking guy. His wife Britney great looking as well.

1:57 I mean, these peeps are literally like Ken and Barbie. They have a large TikTok as I mentioned, and it's typical of what you see with some of these large tiktoks, people who show off all that is great in the world going on with them right there on TikTok. They have a lot of them where they're on a boat, they're hanging with friends, living it up, living like rock stars. Right, everything as it relates to their TikTok seems perfect. And they even had some Tiktoks, where primarily Britney Stapleton is talking and offering her thoughts on things, positive affirmations, that sort of thing. It's just every side of someone's life that you would want people to see. It's not fake, you're doing it, You're really living this life, but you never see the bad stuff. But as we all know, what you see in the public is not always what's going on behind the scenes, and who you perceive yourself to be in public is not always who you really are behind the scenes. And it appears that, at least in Joshua's side of things, this will be the case. Now, before we get into it, I think it's important that I say this. There are tons and tons of people on TikTok, not all of them, but some of them are very very good. So if you're one of those people, you know I'm not talking about you when I say this.

3:24 But the vast majority are want to be newspeople. They don't confirm sources, they don't get three sources for sure before they go with a story or start throwing accusations out there. They rely on other TikTokers in most occasions to basically repeat this inaccurate information a lot of the time, and in this particular case, because it involved a popular TikTok couple, it seemed like just about every TikTok news source or newsperson or whatever they call themselves was having to recant two or three times different statements that they made that were totally inaccurate. Because they're in a race to be first, right, they want as many views as possible, and the quicker they can get it out there, the less competition they have from someone else who might be using a hashtag such as the Gulf Coast stapletons. So because of that, they put the wrong information out there and they have to basically go back and correct that.

4:30 And to me, that's not okay if you throw shade on someone and you were wrong, just by going back and saying, oh, I was wrong, I screwed up. I had it wrong because I didn't confirm my sources, or I went off of another person who had it wrong and didn't know what they were talking about. But I'm recanting it now because it's all good. Well, that kind of depends. You may have seriously tarnished someone's reputation by putting something out there that was inaccurate. Whether it was intentional or not, is open to debate and legal consequences. If that person could prove that what you said about them cost them their reputation or even worse, cost them money, cost them to close their business, whatever, they may have some legal recourse. Now, a lot of times they have to be able to prove that you knew the information you put out was inaccurate. But with reporting on other people, it comes with some responsibility. We all make mistakes every now and then. But man, I'm telling you this TikTok revolution of newspeople, ninety percent of those folks don't confirm anything.

5:39 They go with whatever they saw on TikTok. It's bizarre. So one thing I can promise you is everything you're gonna hear right now is legit. It's fact checked. I have three sources for ninety nine point nine percent of that unless it's a legal document I'm referring to, and I won't have to recoint a word of it. Gonna get the real story. So I'm gonna take you back to April twenty third of twenty twenty. Now, let's think back at this moment in time, the world was absolutely crazy. COVID was a real thing. At that time, nobody knew what the hell it was. We all thought, oh shit, if we breathe on somebody, we're gonna kill them. Those sorts of things. It was just a wild time to live on planet Earth in April of twenty twenty. So as we go through time, it's one of the things I want you to keep in mind because if you're questioning, like I did, why it took so long to get to there to where we're at now, consider the fact that COVID was just starting to rear its ugly head during that point in time. But regardless of all that, in April of twenty twenty, April twenty third, an officer with the Cartersville Police Department, this is in Georgia, he gets a tip from what's known as IKA. That's an acronym.

6:57 It stands for Internet Crimes against Children. Now, most departments throughout the nation by now this time in history, twenty twenty five, they're familiar with IKAC. As a matter of fact, where I live in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, our Sheriff's department is actually a part of an i CAAC task force. Their primary job is to investigate and make arrest on people referred from IKAC. It's a very well run organization, very important organization, and it keeps our children safe. And it's not a single entity. It's actually made up of sixty one jurisdictions, if you will, and Livingston Parish is one of those jurisdictions. And I think of it as an organization that shares information. If someone here downloads on the dark web pictures of children that are compromising, and let's say those downloads were from a mainframe computer somewhere else and another jurisdiction where an i CAAC task Force was, they would share that information with us and say, here's an IP address and this person downloaded compromising pictures of kids, that sort of thing, and we would investigate it, meaning the Livingston Parish task Force. Similar to what's happened here.

8:15 So let's get back to it. The officer who has the last name Payne, perfect last name for an officer, right, he receives an EYECAC tip from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. That tip said that three hundred and twenty six sexually explicit photos of children had been uploaded from a particular IP address. And it's important to note these were uploaded, not downloaded, according to that report, So this person was not going to the Internet at least the way this is written in downloading stuff, which is no better. But it's important to note because there's a discrepancy there that I'm confused about. So the activity actually originally started. They found this out later in the investigation on January twenty fourth of twenty eighteen. So it doesn't mean that by the time IKAC alerted this particular police department that all this occurred in one day. These three hundred and twenty six images were over that time period, so it could have been one image of day for three hundred and twenty six days during that length of time January twenty fourth of twenty eighteen and April twenty third of twenty twenty.

9:24 It doesn't specify, but I just wanted you to keep that in mind. So the officer he gets this information, first thing he does he wants to find out who is the person that owns this IP so he's subpoenas Comcast. He says he needs the information for this IP address and the internet provider they send him who is the owner of that IP address and it's none other than a guy by the name of Joshua Stapleton with an address in Cartersville, Georgia. So for this officer, the investigation starts right there. He gets a copy of the person's driver's license. He contacts the law local assessor's office and he confirms the property address and the name matchup, which they did. And he then goes to social media Facebook and he punches in josh Stapleton, Joshua Stapleton, and he gets a hit in Cartersville, Georgia, and he compares the picture on the Facebook profile to the picture on the driver's license and they match. So he's confident at this point he's got this guy. And he also notices that this guy is a state farm agent owns a state farm agency in Cartersville, Georgia, which that's probably kind of surprising.

10:39 I mean, you wouldn't think your state farm agent would do things like this. Of course, now we know that these sick individuals they do everything from professional jobs to labor jobs, et cetera. But it's just not something that would occur to you right off the bat, or maybe that's just me. But at some point after that, the all officer he heads over to the house. He gets prior to going over there, a warrant from a judge that says that he can seize and search any electronic devices that he comes across. When he gets there, he sees Stapleton loading some things into his Z seventy one truck and he approaches him and he interviews him. The officer conducts that interview the same day, according to the report April twenty third of twenty twenty. He reads Josh's rights and he says, if you want to talk to me and find out what this is all about, we will.

11:34 Josh agrees to speak to the police without counsel present, and the first thing the officer asked is how many people live in the residence and why did he ask him that? Why does that matter? Well, he's trying to figure out who uploaded the pictures because they have an IP address. But an IP address just says a residence that it came from. The officer's probably thinking maybe this guy's got teenage kids or a roommate, and may not be Joshua Stapleton himself uploading these pictures. So the officer explains to Josh why they were there, and at that point, shockingly to the officers. I'm sure he just admits to viewing child pornography, but he claims that he didn't have any sort of sexual interest in these children. However, somewhere in that interview he also states that he masturbated to these images. So the officer says, well, how did you get access to these images? And he said he clicked on a series of links on the internet and the images came up. Now, during the interview, he did give police consent to search his phone that he had left in his truck, and the police they searched that phone and they stated in the report they didn't find any child pornography on that phone at the time. Stapleton then claimed all of the viewing was conducted on his laptop that was in an office area inside the residence. So he had a home office computer basically in a home

13:05 office in addition to his brick and mortar building. Now that brings me to another point. A ton of these so called TikTok newspeople they he was doing all this on a work computer at a state farm office. They were putting this out there and it was totally inaccurate. Now does it matter in the grand scheme of what he was doing. No, but facts matter. It makes the story inaccurate. Get it right, beeps. The officer then asked him what the youngest age of the children he looked at was, and Josh responded, and I'm paraphrasing here, but he basically said, I don't have kids, so I don't have anything to go by as far as judging ages.

13:45 The officer then asked, Josh, did viewing these images bother you in any way? And this statement right here, this written right here in the report, sums up how much of a piece of shit, disgusting human being this guy is. He responds, quote, people are people, and bodies or bodies, we are all the same. Unquote. That's a sick fuck in my opinion. Now, as the officer closes out the interview, you're not gonna believe what this jackass said, meaning Stapleton. His statement concluded with that he did not think it was against the law to you child born. I mean, if you buy that shit, I don't know what to tell you. Now. At this point, he gets arrested, and the officer notes in the report that he double handcuffed Stapleton, which I think is awesome because probably the main reason he did that is just because this guy's a sick individual, and why not. I love it and his charges as of this time April of twenty twenty, arding to Fox five Atlanta, wore fifteen counts of possession of child pornography. Now, I had some confusion initially when I researched this case, and the confusion was what Joshua Stapleton just said, which was I went on the internet, clicked on a bunch

15:18 of links, found these images. However, in the report, the officer wrote initially he said that Ikak told him josh Stapleton uploaded these images to the internet. It didn't say anything about him clicking on images and downloading them or finding them, and you know, maybe he didn't download them but just viewed them. It just said he uploaded them on the report. So I don't have any clarification there. I really can't tell you why there's a conflict there. Now, it's also important to note that these images were described as many depicting prepubescent children in abusive circumstances. Now, pre pubescent that means they were twelve years old or younger.

16:03 A lot of these images and the abusive circumstances part. I've heard some chatter as to what that entails, but I'm not going to repeat it. I'll leave it up to you to imagine what that is, because I was unable to confirm exactly what the images that he had depicted, and I don't want to give you inaccurate information, so I'm going to just go with these were images of kids, literal kids being abused in some way, shape or form. It's disgusting, right, And of course, just because he's in jail, the investigation it continues, and it's not just the Cartersville Police Department, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is involved as well as Homeland Security. Now, in twenty twenty one, due to what they are learning throughout this investigation, an expanded indictment is brought out as it relates to Josh Stapleton, and he is charged with now forty counts of sexual exploitation of children. And then there's a big gap of information.

17:13 Several years passes from twenty twenty one when they raised those charges to June of twenty twenty five when Stapleton pleads guilty in the case. Now he pleaded guilty to twenty counts, not forty in what was known as a non negotiated plea agreement. You may wonder what a non negotiated plea deal is. Well, essentially, that's when someone wants to admit guilt but they can't come to an agreement with the prosecutor insofar as the punishment that goes along with it, so they enter into what's known as a non negotiated plea deal, where a judge is the deciding factor on the punishment. So think of it like this.

17:57 The prosecutor offers you a plea deal. Well, you refuse that plea deal, but you basically tell the judge, look, I'm going to put up some sort of defense for you, and then I'm going to allow you to pass your own sentence. You're basically rolling the dice because the judge could give you more time than the prosecutors would have recommended, which the judge would have went with. Apparently they weren't making much of a deal, and so he went to the judge and said, you decide what I should get, So hopefully that makes sense to you. So in July of twenty twenty five, Josh gets sentenced and that's when all of this shit hit the fan online and TikTok went Crazy, as well as some other sites. But it's July of twenty twenty five. He gets sentenced, and shockingly, or maybe not so shockingly to me because I cover so many of these cases and it never surprises me anymore, the like sentences and the slaps on the rest that people get. But he only gets five years and in fifteen years probation. Now he gets five years, but he's not gonna serve five years in prison. If he keeps his nose clean, he might serve half that, maybe even less than half of that. But I skipped over some things intentionally. Then I'm gonna tell you about now, because the story I've just told you, sadly wouldn't be as big of a deal to so many millions of people that it is right now, were not for what occurred

19:30 between the time he was originally charged in twenty twenty with all his shit, and twenty twenty five, which made this such a big story. So many people who don't report on hundreds of thousands of times that this happens every day, they're invested in this well during that time frame. In fact, in twenty twenty three, he gets married to his wife Brittany, and together they create what I'm gonna call all a TikTok persona channel known as the Gulf Coast Stapletons, which I told you about in depth at the beginning of this episode. And from all appearances, life couldn't be better outside of this situation for this guy and his wife, Brittany. So let me tell you a little bit about Brittany. She's thirty one years old, and as I told you at the beginning, she's a gorgeous lady.

20:25 Seems to be a smart lady. As a matter of fact, according to my research, she is also a state farm agent. I don't know if maybe when they got married they just formed one agency or if they still had separate agencies. I'm not one hundred percent positive, to be honest. I know she has a website that I was able to get to and she's listed as a state farm agent in Alabaster, Alabama. And incidentally, while we're playing Get to Know the Stapletons, when I looked up Josh Stapleton's LinkedIn profile, just a little more information on him. He graduated from Auburn Universe, according to his LinkedIn and he's a member of the baseball alumni from two thousand and five to two thousand and eight. So I'm not going to say this as an absolute fact, but it appears, at least looking on his LinkedIn that he played baseball for Auburn.

21:14 And it also appears he's a licensed real estate agent or was at one point, and also a very active member of the community. This guy was president of what was known as the Bartlow Young Professionals, which was a Chamber of Commerce program. Just some extra information there for you. But back to Brittany because she's getting a lot of flack on this, and it's important to note in a lot of cases, not saying this case, but in a lot of cases, spouses, they're victims like everybody else. Most times they have no idea what is going on or what was going on, and a lot of times they were as shocked as everybody else. And honestly, I thought this was the case here because I can't imagine and someone would know this guy was doing all these things or accused of doing all these things, even maybe before they really knew him or got married to him. It's just hard to imagine that they would marry someone that they knew had these kind of charges and that they would overlook it if you will. So I was giving Brittany the benefit of the doubt. However, she did something that personally I would think was a mistake, was not a good idea for her to do, and that's basically that she came out publicly with her thoughts on this.

22:35 And I want you to listen to Brittany as she discusses and addresses some inaccurate information that was being put out there. Maybe gives her side of the story. But listen to this clip from TikTok, which last time I looked at over two million views. It was just a day before this recording, and here's what she has to say. I want to start off by saying that you were absolutely allowed to post anything that is public records such as mugshots, indictments, court documents, anything like that. And give your opinion. What you're not allowed to do is post anything that is a false statement that is damaging to someone's reputation. And I've seen a lot of it, so I'm going to set the record straight. But if I continue to see it naturally, I'm going to have to take legal action because it's absolutely illegal.

23:23 Now this brings me to the first question. I continuously keep seeing maybe she didn't know, or did she know? Do we think she knew? How did she not know? Absolutely? I knew Josh and I were friends way before we ever started dating. So when the charges occurred, we were friends. You better believe I hit him up because as soon as I saw it, I have a really good judge of character, and I knew something was up. I knew that was not Josh. We had already been on several trips together beforehand. I'd spent pretty close time with this guy, and I was like, m something's wrong here. Josh was absolutely upfront with me about everything in the charges. There were no secrets. So that leads me to the next point. I continuously see things that say he lied to her and told her that his ex wife set him up. Let's cover a couple of things. One, I'm Josh's first wife. He has never been married before. Two, Josh has never blamed any ex relationship for these charges. He has never spoken badly about an ex. Next thing is that people are saying that he lied to me and he told me that he purchased a laptop or a computer off a Facebook marketplace, and the images were already on there. Josh has never told me that, nor have I ever been around him telling anyone that. The next question I continuously see is do people with children or friends with children know about the charges? Absolutely? Ay, it's been all over the internet.

24:52 If you didn't know, you just didn't know. But b we have never in our lives been at someone's house around someone's children not let them know ahead of time, because we don't want anything to ever look sketchy. So we've always been absolutely upfront with everyone. And guess what, a lot of these people have our backs because they have personally witnessed Josh around their children and know that there's no issue. Next one, how was Josh allowed to leave the state of Georgia if he were out on bond? Okay, he was out on bond for five years. He followed all of his guidelines, He was not a flight risk, he did not lose his passport, he has not been in previous trouble to stop him from going anywhere.

25:32 So yeah, he was allowed to live wherever he wanted as long as he reported it to the Bell bondsman, and he did. He followed up every. Single time he was supposed to, so there was nothing illegal going on there about where we live, in our living situations. Next thing, I keep getting screenshots where people are saying Josh had child images on his work laptop. False. Josh could not possibly we have that on his work laptop, because if you have ever worked for a corporation or any big company or anything along those lines, you know how secure those computers are. So that is a false statement. This one.

26:14 It's up for grabs. You're welcome to talk about it all day. People keep saying we were living fake lives. There was nothing fake about it. It was our life. I mean, we're just living like we always do. Anyone who is around us or has been around us on a normal day knows that was just us. We are still happy. He and I have no issues. He has been fully transparent and honest with me. Therefore, I know everything. I have been to court, I know everything. I can assure you that nothing about us was fake. People continuously say their livish lifestyle was over. They thought they were such a power couple all these things. Josh and I would never consider our lives lavish by any stretch of the means.

26:59 If you know us, you know most of the time when we travel, we stay. At a holiday in our boat that everyone calls a yacht two thousand and five model. We are not living some crazy lavish lifestyle that we are funding from child images. That is very far fetched. Think before you speak. Family money got Josh out of this and that's why he's not having. To serve much time. Look up the charges, look up the amount of time that a person serves. That's false. What you're saying is a false statement. There is no family money getting us through anything. Another one, Brittany doesn't want children because she knows that Josh is a child predator. If you know me, or if you've ever known me at any period of my life, you will know that since age twelve, I have never wanted children, not interested in having children, never have been. She's deleting comments, She's deleting and blocking anyone who says things that aren't nice.

27:59 Duh, wouldn't you? Why would I sit there on my page and allow people to try to tear me apart? Think about that. No, I'm not going to do that. So yeah, if you're hateful to me on my page, absolutely you're blocked. If I see you commenting on someone else's page and you know me personally blocked, simple as that, my page, my rules, and last thing before I end on a positive note because that's just who I am. Let's talk about mental health. It is so so fun to get views off these videos. I've seen all the True crime girls their videos of seen it all. I've seen people posting multiple videos because they got excited because they got.

28:43 Most views they've ever had. Whatever. It is not the best thing in the world to profit off someone else's worst moment. I am one of the most mentally tough people you'll ever meet, been through hell, been through a lot in my life. I'm pretty mentally tough. Not everyone is. So I'm glad you guys chose me for this and to give me hell. Like I didn't just go through the worst week of my life, Like I did not just lose my best friend. But I would say think about that, think really hard, because it would be really difficult to sleep at night if you were the cause for someone not to be on this earth.

29:27 So say what you want to. Say, send me my death threats, and send me all these messages. You can't hurt my feelings, you can't cancel me, because this was never a job. It was only for fun for us. We just enjoyed posting our memories and travels. But think really, really deeply before you post the things you do and you profit off someone else's life just to get your ten thousand extra followers and hundreds of thousands of yews. Think about it, and most of all, maybe think about reaching out to that person to see if they are even legally allowed to speak on the case before you do so, because otherwise you're just allowed to say whatever you want and they may not necessarily.

30:13 Be able to respond. Just something to think about. And because our account has never been negative and we have always been a strictly positive account, I'm gonna bring you, guys, your favorite part of us, and it's our boy, Carlos, the one getting me through all this. And if anything has given me a good laugh, I would say it would be the people like, if you do anything with Carlos, I'll take him. Carlos ain't going nowhere. This is my child, this is my baby. Nothing is happening to Carlos. He's gonna be with me forever. So thank y'all for loving him even when you hate us. I appreciate it. And we might be back soon.

30:57 Might not. Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today? Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you what happened in New York. It cannot be as crazy as the case I told you about yesterday in Louisiana. You know what, we should do a podcast about it, and. With that we did. Crime War Weekly covers the crime news headlines that have dominated the week. We cover trending crimes from all over the country and even sprinkle in a few globally. Crime War Weekly is available now wherever you listen to your podcasts. Simply by searching Crime War Weekly or clicking the link in the description of this podcast. So first things first, my opinion, Brittany needs to brush up on libel law, and she's right. Everybody has a right to an opinion and the words allegedly and in my opinion, I use those statements a lot and there's reason why. And it's in my opinion that Brittany fucked up here in a ton of ways. I mean, let's talk about some of the things she said. She said she is a good judge of character. That just made me say, what the fuck?

32:19 I mean, she does realize that this guy's pleaded guilties of this, made statements to the police, admitted he jacked off to this shit. Yet she's painting this like it's some sort of setup. She comes off kind of narcissistic to me, and definitely in denial of her husband's circumstances and her just share involvement with him. That of course, that doesn't mean she had anything to do with anything, but your share involvement with him creates a judgment issue on your part in other people's eyes. She may not give a shit about that, but it does. But what blew my mind more than anything else about the statements that she made in this video was the fact that she said anybody they were around that had kids were told about Josh having charges for child porn. Maybe she's being honest, maybe she's telling the truth about that. But if that's true, and she's being honest and they did tell people that and they allowed their kids around that motherfucker after getting that knowledge, all I can say is, what the fuck is wrong with those people? Imagine that, y'all.

33:41 Imagine for a second, you meet someone, maybe you're going out to a bar, you click with them, whatever, Hey, let's go hang out more often? We all get along, let's go hang out on the boat. Well, before we do, I need to tell you, because you have kids, that my husband has charges against him fortune, child pornography. Yep, I'm out, peace out, playa. I ain't hanging out with you again. Ever, that's the most bizarre comment I think I've ever heard. Maybe she's being honest. Maybe they did tell people that, but I mean, what kind of people are you hanging out with? Holy smokes, these people still support you. It's also important that Brittany keeps in mind she's a public figure, and when you're a public figure, you open yourself up to criticism, justified or not. In this case, it just happens to be justified. Look, Brittany said it out of her own mouth. She knew about all of this ahead of time, So she went into this relationship knowing this guy. Matter of fact, she didn't only go into the relationship, she married the guy knowing he had these charges. According to her, So when you do that, you take the risk of what's going down right now. In twenty twenty five, a wise person told me once, don't lay in the bed with dogs, because you're liable to come out with fleas and right now,

35:15 Britney got fleas all over her, and you had to know that was coming at some point, especially when you become a public persona. So don't bitch about it now. You got to take the bad with the good. Brittany, you asked for scrutiny when you got into the relationship because you knew that scrutiney was coming at some point. You're not dumb if what you're saying is true. You knew all of these allegations which he pleaded guilty to in the story that she just told you. He was up front, they had no secrets. I'm sure he gave her an excuse for this, and I only say that I have no evidence of it, no direct college. But I just can't imagine Brittany, this attractive chick who could probably pull just about any guy that she wanted based off of looks. I just can't imagine her going into this knowing the truth of what he pleaded guilty to.

36:19 Regardless of that, maybe she would, but if that's the case, don't criticize people for questioning it. Fucking with kids is not cool, it's disgusting, it's sickening, and defending someone that does those sort of things that brings you into the situation that you're at right now. You know, most people would be mortified, mortified, and the last thing that they would do is get on any social media to respond. They would, I imagine, delete every single piece of social media they had because they were so mortified and embarrassed about the husband pleading guilty to this sick, disgusting shit that he did. But not Brittany, because in my opinion, she needs the attention. Apparently, you need to look in the mirror at yourself before you preach to other people on an open letter, if you will on TikTok and try to gaslight them into feeling sorry for you, who knew exactly what you were going into according to your own words, I don't feel sorry for you if you knew this going in which you said you did. That's my opinion. So I want to address something else as well, and this one just aggravates me. I've seen a lot of these creators, and they, like me, are disgusted at

37:53 the sentence that he got. And I can agree with Brittany on this. I'm sure money helps a lot little bit, but I don't know that it made a big difference in this case because y'all, I cover specifically teacher student relationships on here at least once a week, all these inappropriate relationships, this pandemic where these teachers are just praying on these students, and in almost all of these cases it's a ridiculous, stupid ass slap on the rest that they get. This is no different, no different than I've seen a million times. So I'm not going to say it's because of who they were, but a lot of people in this case, they brought up the judge and it's a lady named Rosemary Green. And first of all, content creators got it wrong, of course, and we're telling people that the judge was married to a guy by the name of Mark Matheson, and that Mark Matheson got in the trouble with multiple sex crimes. He was having inappropriate relationships with a student apparently, and they divorced over this.

38:59 And guess what, they were all wrong, every one of them. She was not married to this guy. This guy was her boyfriend. I'm not really sure how long they were in a relationship, but I don't think it was a super long time. He gets charged with this stuff and she does what anybody would do in that situation that has a right mind, and she kicked his ass to the curb. That's the real facts. But you know there's still videos up on people's pages that say they were married. I delete that if I were you. This lady's a judge, she knows the law pretty well, and that is misinformation. And you can't just put that video up, say something like that and then offer a recant to that and not delete the original video. But guess what, a lot of these creators aren't doing it because the original video got a ton of views and they don't want to lease the money. But if I were you, I delete it.

39:52 So a ton of these creators, they were trying to tie in the fact of what that judge went through where she kicked this guy to the curb and the light sentence that Josh God, and I'm gonna call bullshit on that number one. As I told you, she was in a relationship with this guy. She was not married to him. She kicked this guy out of the curb, as she should have when she found out about these charges that her boyfriend had. But the creators are like, why didn't she recuse herself? She should have recused herself. First of all, you need to understand the process of recusal. A judge does not have to recuse themselves even when there is a conflict of interest, which in this case there is not. But even when there is, all a judge has to do is honestly ask themselves, look themselves in the mirror, and say, can I judge this case regardless of whatever conflict of interest I may have. If the answer to that is yes, then they proceed with the case. She had no idea what was going on with this guy was nor was it ever accused that she did. Newsflash to those of you that don't do this all day, every day like I do, these sentences are normal. Yes they suck. Yes it's a major problem, but yes this is typical. No matter who the fuck you are, most people don't even do jail time. Would that surprise you. The problem is not the judge in this case. The problem is a system in this case. Now, I'm not picking on all TikTok people or whatever you

41:24 want to call them. Some of them are really good and do the right thing. They actually confirm the information. Some of them are really good. Now, lastly, I want to read you some comments, if you'll remember the TikTok that I played you. In regards to Britney Stapleton, she mentioned that she deletes comments that are hateful. But I'm going to read you some comments that I screenshotted from her video, and you can see how twisted some people's thought process is on this. How it's just not a deal, right, I'm going to read you some love you the most. You and Josh deserve nothing but the best. Now, this person likely has no idea who they are. They live vicariously through them on TikTok, but they love them the most.

42:14 And they and Josh, who is a sick, pedophile motherfucker, he deserves nothing but the best. Another one says, girls, stay strong. We all have mess in our lives. No, not all of us have that kind of mess in our lives. She goes on to say, if those people throwing stones that y'all have no right, lots more of us are for y'all. I mean, really moving on. Another comment and I'm not gonna call these people's name, but another comment prayers for both of y'all. That's okay, I'm praying for it too. Another one says, y'all didn't have time to explain, and you don't know anything to anyone, but you've done so with class and grace. Stay positive, and you're gonna get through this. How can you explain away?

42:57 I'm masturbated looking at of twelve year old girls. Another one. No matter what the situation is, you don't deserve anyone being ugly to you. Jesus Christ, I hope everything gets better. I mean, you can't make this shit up, y'all. So that's just some of those comments that turn my stomach. People need to wake up. If you want this to quit being such an issue, and I mean sexual assault of children, then we need to quit justifying it or acting like it's no big deal. I mean, you take what you can from those comments. But there you have it. The story of the Gulf Coast Stapletons, at least to this point. I'll keep you updated if anything major comes out from here. Thank you so much for listening. Check out the Patreon Patreon dot com slash exposed podcast files for commercial, free early releases, bonus episodes, quarterly guests for our top tier Patreon members.

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