Six years in prison.


Spoilers. Although if you haven't learned anything in the last (15 years?) of IMDB its, don't come to the forums if you haven't seen the movie yet.



The more I dwell on that fact the more frustrated I seem to get. That appears to me like an exceptional amount of time to serve in a prison for a non violent crime that essentially is glorified lying. Frame it any way, add any title you want to that crime, but it really seems like advanced lying. Is that prison worthy? Even if that act of lying emotionally traumatized someone, the act of traumatizing someone in a non physical way isn't prison worth by nature, correct? Maybe you can sue the thief at most.

Calling it "Stealing identity" seems to heighten the crime just by the name alone, "identity theft" Well I've always associated identity theft with actual harm. Such as stealing credit, although that's not a violent crime it indeed will have drastic effects on your life. Getting a mortgage, buying a car, getting a job. I know that he has impersonated people most of his early life and im sure it would have emotionally hurt the family members, but again I can't see going to jail for any of this. I think maybe Im missing a deeper crime here, maybe there was indeed money involved. I see a case where one could say he cost tax payers a lot of money with his charade, the money he cost in legal expensive, wasting government time and money while he was impersonating various children. Although I believe instead the professional agents should have been held accountable for letting him impersonate a 16 year old. Clearly they weren't doing the basics of their job.

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I dont know enough about the courts and legal system, but I do agree....it does seem like a hefty sentence to serve out. Though Im pretty sure he got that long due to being "wanted by interpol".....once you get on that list, you're basically a fugitive now, and they wont take it easy on you when you get caught.

Though you can get years in prison for possession of illegal drugs (which dont hurt anyone but yourself), so I guess the courts dont go by the philosophy "no harm, no foul"

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Considering all the identities he took, impersonating an authority figure, making false statements/claims to the FBI and God knows what other laws he ended up breaking in the process of taking the kids identity, I was surprised that all he got was 6 years. He was out by the time he was 29 and now that he has a wife and kids, he seemed to get the help he desperately needed within those six years.

Because sponges never have bad days.

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I don't think it was excessive. He broke many, many laws, and took advantage of some very vulnerable people. He was a menace to society, and probably still is in some way.

A day without a buzz is a day that never was.

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"don't come to the forums if you haven't seen the movie"
people, like myself, come to the boards for any number
of reasons, and for you to say that I am not allowed, or
shouldn't, because you are to *beep* lazy, or just a plain
*beep* to put "**spoiler**" in a subject line, and put your
spoil in the post!?!?

*beep* prick...


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Balances out with all the folks who get light sentences for worse crimes......

Assume nothing; Question everything

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I think though that this crime can do harm. Think about the fact he was impersonating someone's missing child. Surely the emotional roller coaster of that would be devastating for the family. I also think he probably should have been i a psych ward not in jail, but I do think what he did was serious.

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What's wrong with you,you borderline psychopath wannabe..?
He got the easiest "punishment".
Did you not see what he died while undergoing his punishment ?I'll not gonna spell it out for you.See for yourself .
You're the breed of people who write live letters to Charles Manson types in prison.

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