[Image transcription: A discord screenshot from the LazyTown Community Discord server from the user YikesDepartment. The message is as follows.
@everyone **URGENT IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT**
Hello LazyTown community.
As of today, Christopher Crow (ChrisCrow3#3234) has been demoted and permanently banned from our community. We all suggest you block and report him ASAP anywhere that he is following you as well.
Late last night, the administration team discovered that Christopher had been purposely hiding the circumstances of his extended absence between early 2019-late 2021. During this period (which when asked perviously he had said was “life stuff”), he had been convicted of b.5 Felony Exploitation Of Minors/CP Possession (https://law.justia.com/codes/colorado/2016/title-18/article-6/part-4/section-18-6-403/#b.5).
No one in the community was aware of this, and we just found out through the Colorado Sex Offender Registry (public record). (https://apps.colorado.gov/apps/dps/sor/search/search-detail.jsf?id=XX29463750)
This is vile, sickening behaviour and we are all absolutely shocked and appalled to be discovering this. Christopher (Age 32) has been actively conversing with the admin team for 6-7 years, since we were the ages of 11-14. We had all considered him a “friend” prior to discovering this disgusting behaviour and he had been actively participating in our events.
The administration team is deeply sorry for not being aware of this sooner. We send our support to all fellow victims of Chris, and feel now more than even that our community needs to stand together to prevent anything like this from ever happening again. We apologize for not acting faster, as this was discovered in the middle of the night we needed to wait for the entire administrator team to wake up and be made aware of the situation.
As previously stated, make sure to block and report this man IMMEDIATELY. Minors DO NOT converse with this man as he is a possible danger to you. If you have been a victim of grooming at the hands of Chris Crow, I would ***strongly*** recommend contacting the Colorado Sex Offender Hotline at 720-913-6511 and reporting your experience.
Please be aware of this! Chris Crow also does own the channel Lazytown International, however it is being worked on to get the videos and move them to be accessible elsewhere.
