Vungle CEO Arrested For Child Rape and Attempted Murder (axios.com)

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Vungle CEO Arrested For Child Rape and Attempted Murder (axios.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Friday October 20, 2017 @12:07PM from the disgusting-behavior dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes: Axios is working to get details about a revelation on a government website that Vungle CEO Zain Jaffer is facing charges at the Maple Street Correctional Center in Redwood City, California of attempted murder, a lewd act on a child, oral copulation of a person under 14, child abuse, assault with a deadly weapon and battery upon an officer and emergency personnel. Vungle is self-described on its website as "the leading in-app video advertising platform for performance marketers," and was founded by Jaffer in 2011. Vungle has since issued a statement: "While we do not have any information that is not in the public record at this point, these are extremely serious allegations, and we are shocked beyond words. While these are only preliminary charges, they are obviously so serious that it led to the immediate removal of Mr. Jaffer from any operational responsibility at the company. The company stressed that this matter has nothing to do with Mr. Jaffer's former role at the company." Axios notes that "the San Francisco-based company has raised over $25 million in VC funding from firms like Google Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, Crosslink Capital, SoftTech VC and 500 Startups."

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This is almost as bad by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-20 12:15 · Score: 1

as video ads.
the worst by lucm · 2017-10-20 12:27 · Score: 3, Funny

The list of felony charges includes assault with a deadly weapon, child abuse, lewd act upon a child and oral copulation of a person under 10.
This gonna look good on his linkedin

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1. Re:the worst by mmdurrant · 2017-10-20 13:46 · Score: 1
  
  Out of curiosity, what are you quoting in your comment? This text didn't appear in TFA or the summary.
  
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2. Re:the worst by lucm · 2017-10-20 14:12 · Score: 1
  
  Out of curiosity, what are you quoting in your comment? This text didn't appear in TFA or the summary.
  Techcrunch
  https://techcrunch.com/2017/10...
  
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Trampling Civil Rights by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-20 12:28 · Score: 1, Insightful

So much for innocent until proven guilty.
1. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-20 12:34 · Score: 1, Insightful
  
  He has been substantially deprived of significant material value without ever having set foot in a court.
2. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-20 12:37 · Score: 1
  
  It doesn't matter if he's exonerated. The bad PR is enough to ruin his career.
  captcha: immune
3. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Ol+Olsoc · 2017-10-20 12:41 · Score: 2
  
  How so? Did he get convicted with no trial?
  True, innocent until proven guilty and all that, but that doesn't mean we can't comment on it. Perhaps this would soothe your angst:
  The alleged list of alleged felony charges includes alleged assault with a alleged deadly weapon, alleged child abuse, alleged lewd act upon a alleged child and alleged oral copulation of a alleged person under 10.
  allegedly
  howbow da?
  
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4. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Darinbob · 2017-10-20 13:09 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  How do you ensure that the general public treats him as a normal citizen, do you forbid the press from reporting on any crime? Also criminal law has a higher standard of proof than the general public will accept. If the person is found not guilty over a technicality, you can't expect the company keep him on as a CEO, or even a janitor. "Innocent until proven guilty" is a legal principle, it is not a law that can be enforced on the general public.
5. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by rmdingler · 2017-10-20 13:11 · Score: 1
  
  Is it just me, or does it seem like allegedly should have another d in it?
  Clearly, if your offense is of the type inclusive of the term child abuse you will be judged more harshly.
  Fair? Maybe not, but we have to believe in something.
  
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6. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by HiThere · 2017-10-20 13:12 · Score: 2
  
  While your assertion is fair, it's worth noting that if he weren't a (presumably) wealthy executive it wouldn't be newsworthy, but would still be public.
  Try to come up with a proposal for a better approach. Do you want to allow secret trials?
  Part of what's going on is that everyone so hates his profession that they're immediately willing to believe the worst of him without seeing the evidence. My first thought of a comment was:
  "So he decided to make his profession more directly physical."
  and to deride the company claim that it had no relation to the acts he was accused of.
  That said, I don't feel much obligation to suspend judgment in this case because my reactions won't have any effect on the result. And I'm not sympathetic to the damage to his career because I consider his career in itself immoral.
  
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7. Re: Trampling Civil Rights by Zero__Kelvin · 2017-10-20 13:17 · Score: 1
  
  Rimdingler likes the d !
  
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8. Re: Trampling Civil Rights by rmdingler · 2017-10-20 13:29 · Score: 1
  
  I like what you did there, but in all fairness, what are we without the D? oughnut, and ebian... what are we, Savages?
  
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9. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by CaptainDork · 2017-10-20 13:31 · Score: 1
  
  Companies have standards of employment that essentially say, "You fuck with our revenue stream, we're gonna shitcan you."
  
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10. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Ol+Olsoc · 2017-10-20 13:34 · Score: 1
  
  Is it just me, or does it seem like allegedly should have another d in it?
  Got me! With my talent of making spelling mistakes, I looked it up because I thought I might have had it wrong
  
  Clearly, if your offense is of the type inclusive of the term child abuse you will be judged more harshly.
  Fair? Maybe not, but we have to believe in something.
  We'll see how it works out. I'm willing to say innocent until proven guilty, but the kid under 10 allegation does tend to naturally repulse me, as likely most people. Anyhow, this guy had other charges as well, although the attempted murder charge was dropped.
  
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11. Re: Trampling Civil Rights by Zero__Kelvin · 2017-10-20 13:38 · Score: 1
  
  I on't know. Gla you took it in the spirit it was intene! Ood night.
  
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12. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-20 13:49 · Score: 1
  
  Thought experiment: what if there was never any public announcement of charges laid upon suspects? Answer: that would be like having a system of government in which it is forbidden to question the thoughts of four-star generals. Such a government is called a junta, and we do not want that.
13. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Applehu+Akbar · 2017-10-20 14:32 · Score: 1
  
  And as we all know, alleged is the media term for 'guilty'.
14. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by R3d+M3rcury · 2017-10-20 14:35 · Score: 2
  
  How do you ensure that the general public treats him as a normal citizen, do you forbid the press from reporting on any crime?
  It is an interesting argument. Does the reporting of his crime in any way help the public?
15. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Darinbob · 2017-10-20 14:41 · Score: 1
  
  It could. Maybe it informs parents of the dangers of letting their children spend alone time with CEOs.
16. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-20 14:58 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  How is reporting on public court documents "trampling civil rights"?
17. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by I'm+New+Around+Here · 2017-10-20 15:04 · Score: 1
  
  CEOs are the worst.
  
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18. Re: Trampling Civil Rights by BronsCon · 2017-10-20 15:07 · Score: 1
  
  I on't know. Gla you took it in the spirit it was intene! Goo night.
  There, fixe that for you.
  
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19. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-20 15:49 · Score: 1
  
  If the person is found not guilty over a technicality, you can't expect the company keep him on as a CEO, or even a janitor
  So it's best to shoot him now rather than let him slowly starve to death on the streets. After all, sometimes kids play in the streets...
  Innocent until proven guilt is the law, it's not just a principle.
20. Re: Trampling Civil Rights by LynnwoodRooster · 2017-10-20 17:40 · Score: 1
  
  Well, Systemd is improved if you lose the D...
  
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21. Re: Trampling Civil Rights by Zero__Kelvin · 2017-10-20 20:37 · Score: 1
  
  Good call. I should have used se
  
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22. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Calydor · 2017-10-20 20:45 · Score: 1
  
  Would you do that BEFORE or AFTER a court of law has found out if he ACTUALLY did the crime?
  
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23. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Opportunist · 2017-10-20 22:05 · Score: 1
  
  He's an advertisers. He is guilty. At the very least of stealing people's time.
  
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24. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Megol · 2017-10-20 22:22 · Score: 1
  
  Yes. ...
  Wait, did you imply that would be a bad thing?
25. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by hai_Priesty · 2017-10-21 02:47 · Score: 1
  
  It is an interesting argument. Does the reporting of his crime in any way help the public?
  Are you willing to honestly vouch that if you have children, you will be impartial enough to say that you won't judge him "just because this person has been arrested and charged for sexual assault against minority and attempted murder" and allow your young children to be around this person alone? If this sexual predator with pedo tendencies is your neighbour do you WANT to know?
  If yes, you may want to revalue your merit as a (potential) parent. If no, you have answered your own question.
  My previous point may not sit well with you - but you may also consider that it is not the reporting that is in the wrong. I think people should have some right to know, and if you really think that they should not be judged, then it's the people the judge that is wrong, not the reporting. Although I acknowledge that it's a problem in the society that many people just OMG at news-of-the-day and never bother to verify after the fact that someone's charges has been dropped or found not guilty.
26. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Antique+Geekmeister · 2017-10-21 03:29 · Score: 1
  
  > Try to come up with a proposal for a better approach. Do you want to allow secret trials?
  This already exists for children: proceedings are sealed from the press, and after they become adults many records are supposed to be expunged. There are many cases where plaintiffs, defendants, and prosecutors are forbidden to publish anything about it. Jurors are also normally forbidden from speaking to the press. There is also the entire Guantanamo Bay legal fiasco, where secret prisoners are kept without habeas corpus, without trial, tortured, and in some cases beaten to death.
27. Re: Trampling Civil Rights by BronsCon · 2017-10-21 04:21 · Score: 1
  
  There's a joke in there somewhere about your username and freezing your d off... but this is politically-correct-dot so I won't make it.
  
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28. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Antique+Geekmeister · 2017-10-21 04:32 · Score: 1
  
  > It is an interesting argument. Does the reporting of his crime in any way help the public?
  Yes. It informs potential investors, or clients, that this CEO is going to be distracted by criminal proceedings and is going to have large personal expenses.
29. Re: Trampling Civil Rights by Zero__Kelvin · 2017-10-21 04:52 · Score: 1
  
  In 2017 Slashdot *is* the joke.
  
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30. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by HiThere · 2017-10-21 04:58 · Score: 1
  
  That only works because very few people with power have any animus against children. Even so, you can't show that it's always better.
  And the Guantanamo Bay example is an example of what happens when the open trial is denied. It's clearly unconstitutional abuse of power, and it was engaged in by both the Repubs and the Dems. The weasel-worded justification of "but it's not happening in the US" ignores that it's being done by the US govt. on territory controlled by the US.
  
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31. Re: Trampling Civil Rights by BronsCon · 2017-10-21 05:16 · Score: 1
  
  Isn't that what I just said ;)
  
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32. Re: Trampling Civil Rights by BronsCon · 2017-10-21 05:18 · Score: 1
  
  There's an entire movement based on the idea of improving the world by removing the D
  
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33. Re: Trampling Civil Rights by Zero__Kelvin · 2017-10-21 05:22 · Score: 1
  
  Yes. It was more of a confirmation than an elaboration.
  
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34. Re: Trampling Civil Rights by BronsCon · 2017-10-21 05:32 · Score: 1
  
  Confirmation of an elaborate scheme to dumb down the population, starting with Slashdot, by making everything politically correct and claiming that anyone with a D is evil?
  
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35. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by GrumpySteen · 2017-10-21 10:34 · Score: 2
  
  The police were called to the house by Jaffer's father, Wagstaffe said. When officers arrived at the house, they found Jaffer engaged in the illegal contact with the minors
  Dude's father turned his ass in and the police walked in and saw him molesting his kids. This is an incredibly bad choice of examples to use in arguing for presumption of innocence.
36. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by GrumpySteen · 2017-10-21 10:45 · Score: 1
  
  Most people would think people arrested and taken away with no public explanation or accountability is a bad thing.
  Or maybe you're suggesting that freedom of the press and the first amendment are a mistake? In which case, which government agency do you want to review news stories and ensure that they're "helping the public" in the government's opinion?
  The reporting of crimes is may not thrill you, but it's a part of the other freedoms we enjoy. Eliminate them and you're well on your way to a totalitarian state.
37. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Pseudonym · 2017-10-22 12:41 · Score: 1
  
  I haven't read your fine constitution in a while, but I'm pretty sure there is no guaranteed right to good public relations.
  
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38. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Pseudonym · 2017-10-22 12:49 · Score: 1
  
  Are you willing to honestly vouch that if you have children, you will be impartial enough to say that you won't judge him "just because this person has been arrested and charged for sexual assault against minority and attempted murder" and allow your young children to be around this person alone?
  I do have children, and I would answer that question honestly if it came up during jury selection. That is what you meant, right?
  If he is not convicted, and perhaps even if he is, he may well still do all right in his career. See also: Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Chris Brown, Charlie Sheen, Chuck Berry, Sean Penn, Donald Trump...
  
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39. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Pseudonym · 2017-10-22 12:51 · Score: 1
  
  See also: Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Chris Brown, Charlie Sheen, Chuck Berry, Sean Penn, Donald Trump...
  
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40. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by Pseudonym · 2017-10-22 12:53 · Score: 1
  
  It's pretty well known that if you're a guy and accused of any sexual harassment claim of any kind, your life is likely to be over.
  See also: Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Chris Brown, Charlie Sheen, Chuck Berry, Sean Penn, Donald Trump...
  
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41. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by hai_Priesty · 2017-10-22 16:31 · Score: 1
  
  I do have children, and I would answer that question honestly if it came up during jury selection.
  Good for you on the fair jury part, my intention of previous post to GP (maybe I didn't state it very clearly) was the right for people to know if through the news - there are lots of people that reasonably want to take precautions when it comes to their children, and wait till AFTER his acquittal to let the person be alone with his kid.
  By extension (to GP and GGPs), if we were to literally interpret "Presumed innocence until proven guilty" to the fullest extent, unqualified, and to protect them against every single potential of undesirable salutation................ I don't think society currently accepts that someone on trial for multiple sexual assaults and kidnapping of children, and attempted murder be able to continue his/her daily work of a kindergarten teacher till the minute he/she was found guilty.
  You can't fault parents for this very basic precaution while he is still on trial (you MAY fault them if they still judge him after acquittal).
42. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by tehcyder · 2017-10-25 00:25 · Score: 1
  
  He has been substantially deprived of significant material value without ever having set foot in a court.
  It's one of the side effects of the US's near complete freedom of speech/press. Most countries have limitations on what you can report about people who have merely been arrested but not yet charged, in the US there appears to be no such control, and you get law enforcement publishing mugshots of arrestees even if they're later released without charge.
  Personally, I don't see why you should be able to report even on a trial until it is over and the person found either guilty or not guilty, but then I suppose I'm just an apologist for the Lizard NWO Illluminati Government conspiracy.
  
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43. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by tehcyder · 2017-10-25 00:27 · Score: 1
  
  The reporting of crimes is may not thrill you, but it's a part of the other freedoms we enjoy. Eliminate them and you're well on your way to a totalitarian state.
  No, you're not.
  
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44. Re:Trampling Civil Rights by GrumpySteen · 2017-10-25 00:45 · Score: 1
  
  Wow. What a thoroughly fact-supported response to a strawman argument you've made. I couldn't possibly refute it.
"The leading in-app video advertising platform" by mapkinase · 2017-10-20 12:36 · Score: 1

I wish the whole company was put in jail for a long long time.

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Re:Who? by Khyber · 2017-10-20 12:42 · Score: 1

"When I genuinely type "Vungle wikipedia" into Google, and the first search result does NOT come up with Wikipedia"
Your fucking fault for relying upon both Google and Wikipedia to think for you instead of having some actual search chops, sonny boy.

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Re: Who? by Brockmire · 2017-10-20 12:54 · Score: 1

So you're complaining Google failed to show a link to a nonexistent Wikipedia page? That's some fucked expectations.
Re:Yep he's guilty by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-20 13:05 · Score: 1

Being a perverted psychopath does not make him an idiot.
But if you want to see tweets from a perverted psychopath who is also an idiot, I have a recommendation!
Details TFS left out by DeplorableCodeMonkey · 2017-10-20 13:08 · Score: 3, Informative

The CEO of a mobile ad startup has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing his three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter and three other felonies.
Source.
1. Re:Details TFS left out by DontBeAMoran · 2017-10-20 15:27 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  (insert joke about "won't somebody think of the children" here)
  
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2. Re:Details TFS left out by Opportunist · 2017-10-20 22:10 · Score: 1
  
  The main problem is that he has been thinking of the children a bit too much.
  
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Re:Who? by freeze128 · 2017-10-20 13:46 · Score: 1

What's a Vungle? Alternatively, What's a Zain? When did the news become a bunch of made-up words?
Re:Verbing Vungle by Applehu+Akbar · 2017-10-20 14:30 · Score: 1

Oooh, just wait until this gets worked into the plot of a Silicon Valley episode.
That's nice by Chris+Mattern · 2017-10-20 15:10 · Score: 1

Axios notes that "the San Francisco-based company has raised over $25 million in VC funding from firms like Google Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, Crosslink Capital, SoftTech VC and 500 Startups."
So do they actually do anything, or have they just found that conning VC investors out of their money is a good living?
1. Re:That's nice by TWX · 2017-10-20 15:21 · Score: 1
  
  To the likes of the entities that funded them that $25,000,000 is chump-change. The roll-of-the-dice is worth it to them if the technology pans-out. I also expect that those companies that survived the dotcom bubble may themselves be slightly better at evaluating if a given startup has a better chance of actually providing a return, so they sponsor fewer losers relative to the winners.
  
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Re:Who? by DontBeAMoran · 2017-10-20 15:26 · Score: 1

When did the news become a bunch of made-up words?
I don't have the zlorbies'ed idea.

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Re:Verbing Vungle by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-21 02:29 · Score: 2, Insightful

It's hilarious how many angry, fire-breathing, conservative, anti LGBT, anti-progress assholes turn out to be closet adulterers, homosexuals, or cads who've pressured mistresses into getting abortions, etc. etc.
Oh wait, maybe there are just assholes on each side and most people aren't in that category.
Possibly a bad divorce and false allegations? by Antique+Geekmeister · 2017-10-21 04:29 · Score: 1

The articles from legitimate press are limited. I'm sad to say that I've personally seen a divorce case where a mother, badly counseled by her unqualified, untrained, and unlicensed therapist, accused the father of sexual abuse of their children. The mother was claiming that practices common around the world, such as casual nudity in the home, or bathing with infants, were sexual abuse in and of themselves. That took years of horrific court intervention and a change of therapist to help clear up, and it still ruined their family.
This does not mean that all such allegations, or even a high proportion of them, are false. It most _certainly_ does not mean this man is innocent. It does mean that some skepticism of criminal allegations is badly needed. It would be horrific if the accusations were ill-founded.
Re: Verbing Vungle by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-21 10:19 · Score: 1

Trump literally bragged about sexually assaulting women on tape. His ex wife filed rape charges against him and only dropped them for an undisclosed amount of money. Dozens of women have accused him of sexual assault and related misconduct.
Are you suggesting that Trump is a " Hillary supporting, lgbqt supporting democrat."
Re:Verbing Vungle by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-22 12:38 · Score: 1

Yeah, Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes were a couple of lefty snowflakes.
Re:Verbing Vungle by KingBenny · 2017-10-22 17:18 · Score: 1

technically allegations arent proof ... but its the easiest way to bring someone down, however since he's into marketing im willing to believe it lol so a 14 yo sucked his dick for money OMG thats a first i bet ... no comment

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Re:Verbing Vungle by AutodidactLabrat · 2017-10-24 12:05 · Score: 1

Just Catching Republican'ts with their lying pants down chimp.