Film Sites React to Contributor's Sex Crime Admission
Gabriel Toro was a regular contributor to The Playlist, Den of Geek and Cinema Blend.
It’s been an unusual and most unwelcome dilemma for The Playlist, Den of Geek, Cinema Blend and CHUD. How to react to the downfall of regular contributor Gabriel Toro, who earlier this month pled guilty in a New Jersey courtroom to one count of online enticement of a minor. Sentencing is scheduled for June 25.
Den of Geek quickly decided to remove all of Toro’s posts. Taking a more measured and delayed approach was The Playlist. From Rodrigo Perez’s March 30 item, “An Overdue Statement:”
After careful consideration we have elected not to remove his historical contributions from the site, however, as to do so would feel like an attempt to deny acknowledging that his work ever appeared here.
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