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Hollywood's favorite child molester - Michelle Malkin
townhall.com ^ | 9/24/03 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 9/24/2003, 5:12:41 AM by kattracks

One of the most popular movies currently playing at the box office, "Jeepers Creepers 2," is a teen horror flick directed by a stomach-turning registered sex offender who was convicted of molesting a 12-year-old-boy he targeted, groomed, seduced, and filmed in pornographic home videos.

Hollyweird strikes again.

The celebrity pervert's name is Victor Salva. The scheming Salva wrote children's books, participated in the Big Brother program, and worked at a San Francisco-area daycare center where he met his prey. He molested the victim, Nathan Winters, from the time the boy was 7.

Salva pleaded guilty in 1988 to five felony counts of child sex abuse; he served a measly 15 months of a pathetic three-year prison sentence. Winters' scars will last a lifetime.

Salva made Winters the star of his first feature film, "Clownhouse," a revolting low-budget movie about three murderous clowns who terrorize three young boys. (The movie won praise at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival.) While working on the project, Salva forced Winters to perform oral sex on the "critically acclaimed" director and captured the acts on tape. When police raided Salva's home, they found not only the sex videos of Salva and Winters, but also tapes of naked young men taking showers and a pornographic album of still photos.

After he was released on parole, convicted child molester Salva went on to write and direct the "critically acclaimed" 1995 movie "Powder," in which he worked with many young actors. Winters and his mother bravely went public to protest Salva's involvement. But his employers at Disney -- Disney! -- stood by him, as did liberal stars of the film, Mary Steenburgen and Jeff Goldblum. Also a staunch defender and patron of convicted child molester Salva's: director Francis Ford Coppola, whose company produced "Clownhouse" and the two Jeepers Creepers movies.

Convicted child molester Salva's saviors say their "talented" friend has paid his debt to society and should be left alone to express himself creatively and contribute positively to the movie industry. Separate the art from the artist, they preach. Just move on. That is patently impossible and irresponsible, however, when the director's "art" involves the continued sexual exploitation of -- and twisted obsession with -- young boys.

Consider the wretched plot of "Jeepers Creepers 2": An ancient demon dubbed "the Creeper" preys on teenage basketball players trapped in a broken-down bus on a rural highway. Convicted child molester Salva's camera lingers on the shirtless torsos of the boys, alive and dead. The boys, all buff and beautiful in that pedophilic Calvin Klein/Abercrombie and Fitch kind of way, sunbathe on the bus roof. The lascivious Creeper stalks and harvests his victims, devouring "certain parts of their anatomy while laminating the rest," in the words of one movie critic. This orgy of bare skin and blood splatter, the sophisticated artistes lecture us, is convicted child molester Salva's redeeming contribution to society.

Convicted child molester Salva and his corrupt Hollywood enablers gripe that he made a "single mistake" and doesn't deserve to be "slandered." The plain fact is that convicted child molesters such as Salva are enormously predisposed to reoffending. Sgt. Gary Primavera, the police officer who handled the Winters case, said: "Victor has every characteristic of a pedophile that I know of -- and I've worked with enough of them. There was no remorse. The only sadness on Victor's part was that he got caught."

It is an abomination that this man continues to enjoy a position of power and influence over young actors, making movies targeted to teens that indulge his dangerous sexual fetishes. The only thing safe and appropriate for convicted child molester Salva to direct are toilet bowl cleaner commercials.

Hollywood's greedy ghouls think otherwise. "Jeepers Creepers 2" has grossed nearly $40 million so far and remains in the top 10. Francis Ford Coppola's co-executive producer, Bobby Rock, glibly told the San Jose Mercury News last week: "The film did very well at the box office -- that's all that matters to us.''

Sick.

©2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hollyweird; homosexualagenda; michellemalkin; prisoners; victorsalva
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1 posted on 9/24/2003, 5:12:41 AM by kattracks
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I'm unfamiliar with the case. If the facts are as stated, Victor Salva should not be alive.
2 posted on 9/24/2003, 5:16:16 AM by dighton (NLC™)
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To: kattracks
I nominate Salva for a both Roman Polanski and Darwin awards.
3 posted on 9/24/2003, 5:24:21 AM by Paleo Conservative (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: kattracks
Remember, Justice Kennedy is worried that prison sentences are just too damned long.
4 posted on 9/24/2003, 6:08:35 AM by DoughtyOne
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To: kattracks
when we will start putting these guys away for life or better yet execute them?
5 posted on 9/24/2003, 6:25:37 AM by smadurski
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To: kattracks
Good grief, I was expecting an accusation against her.
6 posted on 9/24/2003, 6:38:56 AM by ChemistCat (Terra Vegetable Chips. WOW they're good. But you will worry about your $800 crowns.)
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To: kattracks
Bump
7 posted on 9/24/2003, 6:44:42 AM by Ruth A.
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To: dighton
And now that I've read it, and completely ruined ANY chance I might have had to get some sleep, I'm with you. Why are these people allowed to keep breathing?

Our children are losing a precious freedom and innocence that may be vital to their intellectual and emotional development. We won't know till the first hothouse children start running the world, how much they were limited as children, by having to be indoors and supervised all the time, because our society refuses to execute perverts who prey on them.

I see a disturbing lack of creativity, problem-solving ability, an absence of "centeredness" in the children I know now. They don't know who they are in the sense of being a free agent in a larger world. And they are so very sheltered from the consequences of their mistakes, that when they are no longer sheltered, they are literally lost.

Had a kid walk into a freshman-level final exam late, telling the professor that he hadn't had time to study so could he go away for an hour and take the exam when he'd had time to read? He was so very shocked when the professor told him no. A childhood spent saving the game and restarting it whenever an undesired outcome came up...it showed.
8 posted on 9/24/2003, 6:47:24 AM by ChemistCat (Terra Vegetable Chips. WOW they're good. But you will worry about your $800 crowns.)
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To: kattracks
This homo escaped punishment for his crimes against young boys. Gay friendly Hollyweird defends him. How sick!
9 posted on 9/24/2003, 6:51:18 AM by dennisw (G_d is at war with Amalek for all generations)
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I called myself a Jeff Goldblum fan...as much as I was a fan of any actor. No more. That's it.

You can be pretty liberal for a long time and get by my radar, but this pegs out my horror-meter. Do not defend child molestors to me, Mr. Goldblum.
10 posted on 9/24/2003, 6:53:33 AM by ChemistCat (Terra Vegetable Chips. WOW they're good. But you will worry about your $800 crowns.)
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To: ChemistCat
You better believe Jeff Goldblum said that that to score some brownie points with Hollyweird's gay mafia. Who will now be more inclined to employ him in their next movie
11 posted on 9/24/2003, 6:58:01 AM by dennisw (G_d is at war with Amalek for all generations)
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To: kattracks
I wonder if Victor Salva is a registered sex offender, and if notices have been posted in his neighborhood that a convicted child molester is living nearby. I'm also curious if Winter's family can get a restraining order preventing Salva from being within a hundred feet of a minor or ever being alone with one.
12 posted on 9/24/2003, 7:08:28 AM by kingu
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To: kattracks; EdReform; *Homosexual Agenda
Sick.

An excellent one-word summary.

13 posted on 9/24/2003, 2:53:20 PM by scripter (Thousands have left the homosexual lifestyle.)
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To: kattracks
15 months? For a convicted child molester? 15 months?

How much time did Jim Bakker do for overbooking a hotel? Yet he is a pariah and laughingstock; Salva is an "artist" and beloved by the Hollywood culture.

14 posted on 9/24/2003, 3:03:13 PM by Skooz (All Hail the Mighty Kansas City Chiefs)
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To: Skooz
Oh, now, you know the rules.

Bakker (for whom I had no respect) is the media's favorite type: a fallen, professed Christian.

Salva is one of Them. He's above criticism.

There y'go.

Dan
15 posted on 9/24/2003, 3:09:34 PM by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: kattracks
Bump!!
16 posted on 9/24/2003, 3:14:35 PM by mtbrandon49
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To: ChemistCat
I called myself a Jeff Goldblum fan...as much as I was a fan of any actor. No more. That's it.

I practically worship Francis Coppolla for the "Godfather" series, "The Conversation" and "Apocalypse Now", as well as his terrific wines. I am very disappointed.

17 posted on 9/24/2003, 3:16:05 PM by montag813
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To: ChemistCat
Our children are losing a precious freedom and innocence that may be vital to their intellectual and emotional development.

You are right. We have to keep kids sheltered because there are some very bad people out there that see them as prey.

So we lock up the kids and let the perverts roam free.

There is something very wrong with that picture.

18 posted on 9/24/2003, 3:17:22 PM by Harmless Teddy Bear (Hold the forks / The knives are coming / Spoons are on their way….)
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To: montag813
Francis Ford Coppola's co-executive producer, Bobby Rock, glibly told the San Jose Mercury News last week: "The film did very well at the box office -- that's all that matters to us.''

Says something about the audience too.

19 posted on 9/24/2003, 3:20:17 PM by aristeides
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To: kattracks
The celebrity pervert's name is Victor Salva.

Of course, there's no such thing as a "jobless recovery" in Hollywood...if you're a
freakin' pervert.

Sidebar: I WON'T be seeing "Mystic River", even if Clint Eastwwod produced it.
I about hurled to see the stars: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, and the
rest of Early-Onset Alzheimers Hollywood.
20 posted on 9/24/2003, 3:27:09 PM by VOA
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