In my reporting, I found letters for a child porn convict that reveal a family rift over support. Some are quite tone deaf compared to victims’ letters. “The highlight of one birthday party was an aunt’s gift to him of skydiving from a small airplane!”

Regarding a comment that this article defends Kutcher’s and Kunis’ letters: Please read the article before you decide it does that. It’s only been out for an hour, and it looks at the role character reference letters play in sentencings.

@meghanncuniff some of them are just unwitting testimonies of how skilled the defendant was at hiding their true character

@unlikelydarling Totally. And sometimes the letters taken all together paint a fuller picture that I don’t think the defense fully realizes. The child porn convict’s letters reiterated what a spoiled brat he is.

@meghanncuniff Your POV is harmful

@meghanncuniff The thing that makes Kutcher and Kunis's letter tone deaf is the fact that they both knew and were at one point friends with the victims. They say they "support victims", but their lack of acknowledgement of the victims that they knew personally flies in the face of that. 1/

@meghanncuniff Some are letters written for those who took responsibility and pled guilty. Others are for people convicted of fraud, bribery, perjury, and drug possession. These two letters are for someone convicted of being a violent serial rapist who has shown zero remorse. Big difference.

@meghanncuniff Were Kushton and Mila hoping he might get a shorter sentence because despite drugging and raping women , 'he always turned up on time and pulled his weight?' Their letters were so embarrassing , and even more so because they didn't realise it would be public.