According to some random Brazilian weeaboo news site, 21-year-old Bowd was supposedly more specifically arrested for having a 2023 tactical role-playing game installed on his phone, which contains “almost [sexually] explicit” scenes with “[sexualized little girl] characters”. Now whether Bowd was actually arrested for having that specific game on his phone remains “unconfirmed”, but what I’m much more certain of is that Bowd is in all likelihood currently having a cringe-induced out-of-body experience, and his mom probably is, too.
That Brazilian weeaboo news site also claims without anything to back it up that “”““most people are outraged””“” at Bowd’s arrest, and shows five supposed comments from anonymous average netizens. Most of these comments are just thinly-veiled pedo talking points which are only really useful as jumping-off points for explaining why they’re wrong, but the first comment was, “How did they know? Did they see him playing?” — which I’m honestly kinda curious about myself. Because either the Gardaí did what I’d consider to really be a pretty severe violation of this guy’s privacy, or he just fuckin busted out the pedo anime sex game in the middle of getting inspected by Homeland Security at an international airport, As You Do™.
In any case, though:
womp womp :anime-cool:
Obviously we don’t know for sure, but it seems more likely it would be some sort of CP-coded game than a questionable PNG file on his phone. It’d be easier for the authorities to detect and the language used in the game would make it explicit what it was, whereas an image would require more sifting to find and would have greater plausible deniability.
Other Irish sources do say that the content was “animated” as opposed to static images.