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It was a gift from a father to a son. It was a much-wanted portable gaming system. But the gift came with an X-rated surprise.
Ten-year-old Kade Goodman is a self-described gamer. His older brothers have hand-held PlayStation Portables called PSPs. Kade wanted one too.
Kade’s father, Shon Goodman, went to the CD Tradepost looking for a used unit at an affordable price. He gave it to Kade for Christmas, but before he could play with his new toy, Kade’s 13-year-old brother made a discovery.
“He went to themes and colors and pulled up a picture. It’s something that’s not meant to be seen by a child’s eye,” said Shon.
It was a picture of male genitalia on the PSP screen. Whoever first owned the system saved the image and Shon said he couldn’t get rid of it.
Shon Goodman found an explicit image in a used PSP unit he gave to his son for Christmas.
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“At first I thought it was a joke,” he said. “Maybe it will come off. But when I started getting into it and started to erase it and couldn’t, the more I thought about it, the madder I got.”
CD Tradepost manager Candido Pacheco said the company tries to make sure all images stored on gaming systems are erased before reselling it.
“We wipe the memory cards clean. If there’s a hard drive within the system, we wipe the hard drive clean,” said Pacheco
In this case, Pacheco said the memory card was scrubbed, but they didn’t look at the background setting which is where the image was saved.
CD Tradepost was able to get the explicit image off Kade’s PSP. The business threw in a new game for the family’s trouble. But Goodman wants to make sure other parents don’t encounter the same surprise.
“Make sure they go through it and look at every possibility to make sure their kids aren’t seeing what mine could’ve,” Goodman said.