# Disgraced Glee actor Mark Salling dead in apparent suicide while awaiting child porn sentencing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgraced-glee-actor-mark-salling-dead-in-apparent-suicide-while-awaiting-child-porn-sentencing/807848 "2018-01-31T00:19:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Luciano700](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Luciano700](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Luciano700)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgraced-glee-actor-mark-salling-dead-in-apparent-suicide-while-awaiting-child-porn-sentencing/807848/1 "2018-01-31T00:19:36Z")
> **[Glee star Mark Salling 'commits suicide': Dead at 35](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5331317/Mark-Salling-dead-apparent-suicide.html)** > > The Glee star's body was found on Tuesday near a little league baseball field close to his Sunland home in Los Angeles, California. He was 35 at the time of his death. There is something really fishy about this sex abuse scandal. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgraced-glee-actor-mark-salling-dead-in-apparent-suicide-while-awaiting-child-porn-sentencing/807848/2 "2018-01-31T00:30:36Z")
What do you think is fishy about it? ---
**Author:** ![Luciano700](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Luciano700](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Luciano700)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgraced-glee-actor-mark-salling-dead-in-apparent-suicide-while-awaiting-child-porn-sentencing/807848/3 "2018-01-31T00:34:10Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > What do you think is fishy about it? The fact most seem to take place within Hollywood’s atmosphere. As for the death, first I never even watched the show before, but I have heard it endless of times. 2nd, 50k child porn images? How the hell does one go a long downloading spree, let alone down child porn in the first place. And there weren’t even 8-12 or even around the 13-17 age range[my age range]. Nope all pre-pubs. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgraced-glee-actor-mark-salling-dead-in-apparent-suicide-while-awaiting-child-porn-sentencing/807848/4 "2018-01-31T00:37:27Z")
> [@Luciano700](#): > > The fact most seem to take place within Hollywood’s atmosphere. > As for the death, first I never even watched the show before, but I have heard it endless of times. > > 2nd, 50k child porn images? How the hell does one go a long downloading spree, let alone down child porn in the first place. And there weren’t even 8-12 or even around the 13-17 age range[my age range]. Nope all pre-pubs. Fucking hell. You keep on being you, you massive fucking weirdo. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Luciano700](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Luciano700](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Luciano700)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgraced-glee-actor-mark-salling-dead-in-apparent-suicide-while-awaiting-child-porn-sentencing/807848/5 "2018-01-31T00:44:46Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Fucking hell. You keep on being you, you massive fucking weirdo. 😕 Huh??? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgraced-glee-actor-mark-salling-dead-in-apparent-suicide-while-awaiting-child-porn-sentencing/807848/6 "2018-01-31T00:53:53Z")
Yes. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgraced-glee-actor-mark-salling-dead-in-apparent-suicide-while-awaiting-child-porn-sentencing/807848/7 "2018-01-31T01:10:29Z")
> [@Luciano700](#): > > 50k child porn images? How the hell does one go a long downloading spree, let alone down child porn in the first place. Well, regarding “regular” porn, my own collection is 175k images and grows daily. Can’t see why child porn would be any different. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgraced-glee-actor-mark-salling-dead-in-apparent-suicide-while-awaiting-child-porn-sentencing/807848/8 "2018-01-31T01:29:49Z")
> [@Luciano700](#): > > 2nd, 50k child porn images? How the hell does one go a long downloading spree, let alone down child porn in the first place. And there weren’t even 8-12 or even around the 13-17 age range[my age range]. Nope all pre-pubs. I worked for a criminal defense attorney about 15 years ago. One of our clients that we defended was accused (and convicted) for child porn. I’m not sure he was caught with 50k images, but somewhere in the 10k-20k range is what I remember, so nothing about that number strikes me as fishy. (Also, I somehow _completely_ was unaware of this story. Not just the suicide, but the whole trial and everything.) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgraced-glee-actor-mark-salling-dead-in-apparent-suicide-while-awaiting-child-porn-sentencing/807848/9 "2018-01-31T01:39:00Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Fucking hell. You keep on being you, you massive fucking weirdo. 😕 You know personal insults are not allowed outside of the Pit. Don’t do it again. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgraced-glee-actor-mark-salling-dead-in-apparent-suicide-while-awaiting-child-porn-sentencing/807848/10 "2018-01-31T01:41:28Z")
There is already an update to the original story in CS. There is no need to keep this one open.