For this week's Memory Monday, let's have a look at some more of the messages that Creepy sent to 19 year old Bella. He sent her these after meeting her with his family for a quick photograph. At the time of him writing them (May/June 2018) the ingham Family were at the very height of their success. Fans had been queuing for 7 hours to meet them at the Kent meet and greet; they were about to hit 1 million subscribers and they were getting around 130,000 daily views. Also, Creepy and Lazy were trying to conceive Jace. And yet, he was prepared to risk his marriage, his success and his children's happiness for the chance to "teach Bella a thing or two
" (ew ew ew
).
This is why I don't understand how they and anyone who still supports them just dismisses what he did as a bit of cheating and nothing illegal. Because most of them do accept that he did something, just that it wasn't a big deal. Sarah only mentioned in a message the embarrassment of her husband cheating, Leah (I think) let slip that it was ok because Jess was 16, the only denial from Chris in his no hell no video was that he isn't interested in children. Ifam have commented that it wasn't illegal, and just shrug it off. They obviously have problems in their own mindset to think that all that would be ok anyway, legal or not, but that's why he finds it easy to start with someone else from their fanbase.
He clearly lied and used his position to make promises to much younger and vulnerable people. He used flattery to people that he knew were insecure about their body, he pretended to be more important than he was and tried to bribe people into meeting up with him with the promise of social media fame, which he never had any power to make happen anyway.
Despite everyone that we know of being over 16 and in his opinion that makes it ok, it should be no different than if a teacher or doctor was saying these things to someone who was looking up to them. Just because the law hasn't caught up to social media yet, I don't understand why his wife, his family, and the few remaining ifam would ever try to defend him or in Sarah's case, carry on like nothing happened and have more children with him.