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Recent Charges of Sexual Abuse of Children in Hollywood Just Tip of Iceberg, Experts Say
FoxNews.com ^ | December 05, 2011 | Meaghan Murphy

Posted on 12/05/2011 11:50:10 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

If a spate of recent allegations proves true, Hollywood may have a hideous epidemic on its hands. The past two weeks have brought three separate reports of alleged child sexual abuse in the entertainment industry.

Martin Weiss, a 47-year-old Hollywood manager who represented child actors, was charged in Los Angeles on Dec. 1 with sexually abusing a former client. His accuser, who was under 12 years old during the time of the alleged abuse, reported to authorities that Weiss told him "what they were doing was common practice in the entertainment industry." Weiss has pleaded not guilty.

On Nov. 21, Fernando Rivas, 59, an award-winning composer for “Sesame Street,” was arraigned on charges of coercing a child “to engage in sexually explicit conduct” in South Carolina. The Juilliard-trained composer was also charged with production and distribution of child pornography.

Registered sex offender Jason James Murphy, 35, worked as a casting agent in Hollywood for years before his past kidnapping and sexual abuse of a boy was revealed by the Los Angeles Times on Nov. 17. Murphy’s credits include placing young actors in kid-friendly fare like "Bad News Bears," "The School of Rock," "Cheaper by the Dozen 2” and the forthcoming "Three Stooges.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: coreyfeldman; hollyweird; hollywoodpedophiles; hollywoodpervs; hollywoodsexabuse; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes; pedophilia; sexabuse
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To: Enterprise

or grandmas that buy them for their granddaughters so said granddaughter can see what it was like when Grandma was 5.

Or like this mom who bought them when every single person told my daughter she looks “just like Shirley Temple”

We love watching her old movies.


81 posted on 12/05/2011 4:53:16 PM PST by porter_knorr
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To: porter_knorr

I think the Shirley Temple movies are great for little girls.


82 posted on 12/05/2011 6:28:39 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: DoughtyOne

That scores the greatest point about the movie. If it had been advertised as being about an early film maker, I wouldn’t have bothered.


83 posted on 12/05/2011 6:30:58 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Tax-chick

Those old depression era movies seem more relevant the last few years too.


84 posted on 12/05/2011 6:39:45 PM PST by Dead Eye Lane
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It looks as though pedophilia doesn't even need to be "decriminalized" to be of epidemic proportions. What needs to happen IMO is the death penalty for child molesters. Nothing else will stop them. And that means a huge change in laws, and how sentences are carried out (like not after 25 years on death row), and a giant replacement of judges and lawyers. I don't see an easy fix for this short of - well, a very serious social disruption. Those elites who are immoral worse-than-beasts will not give up their power easily. Nor those who are not active child molesters but cover for their fellows.

85 posted on 12/05/2011 6:48:56 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper; lilyramone; crusadersoldier; Ellzeena; Anvilhead; stonehouse01; ...

If only we let the hollyweirdos marry, this kind of tragedy could have been avoided!


86 posted on 12/05/2011 6:56:50 PM PST by narses
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Child sexual abuse has a long history in Hollywood. An early example is Joan Crawford's adventure with Jackie Cooper. It would take an intervention of Biblical proportions to change this.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
87 posted on 12/05/2011 6:58:23 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: GeronL

[How was Melanie Griffith when he made that near porn film with Don Johnson the something experiment and had an affair with him, 16? maybe]

She was 14. He was 22.


88 posted on 12/05/2011 7:09:23 PM PST by KansasGirl
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To: KansasGirl

14!

Good gawd, he should be a registered sex offender along with Steven Tyler IMO.


89 posted on 12/05/2011 7:14:46 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: stevecmd
WOW! Who knew. I thought this behavior was only indigenous to State College PA.

Or to only crime limited to Catholic church.

These slime buckets Hollywierd child molesters and their protectors need to be brought to justice. They have ruined our culture, targeting American children with moral corruption in every way possible. If they can't screw them in person, they are happy to screw them psychologically.

90 posted on 12/05/2011 7:52:28 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: narses

—”If only we let the hollyweirdos marry, this kind of tragedy could have been avoided!”—

I love that you keep pointing out the fallacy of this criticism of the Catholic Church. Keep it up!

How many pedophiles have kept up sham marriages just to put forth an appearance of normalcy? Saying that marriage would solve pedophilia is like saying it would solve alcoholism; marriage won’t control those life situations where unholy urges meet opportunities.


91 posted on 12/05/2011 7:57:12 PM PST by TitansAFC (Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry are not your enemies, my fellow Freepers!)
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To: Enterprise

A huge percentage of workers in children’s television are homo. Possibly a majority at Nickelodeon and Disney.

Coincidence?


92 posted on 12/05/2011 8:02:24 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Coincidence?


The Entertainment industry is Sodom territory. As the queers have come out of the closet so has the grosteque smut and behavior which was rightfully hidden in that closet.


93 posted on 12/05/2011 8:21:57 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: SENTINEL

It also raises some questions about the GOP


94 posted on 12/05/2011 8:23:49 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: ConorMacNessa

That is exactly what I expect to see one of these days.


95 posted on 12/05/2011 8:30:03 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: TitansAFC

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96 posted on 12/05/2011 8:34:41 PM PST by narses
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To: UnwashedPeasant
"Coincidence?"

I think NOT!

97 posted on 12/05/2011 8:35:03 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: SaraJohnson
These slime buckets Hollywierd child molesters and their protectors need to be brought to justice. They have ruined our culture, targeting American children with moral corruption in every way possible. If they can't screw them in person, they are happy to screw them psychologically.

Most movies and TV shows are (and have been for a long time) the vilest propaganda. Slowly inculcating the minds of watchers - especially the younguns - with the leftist/hedonist/atheist world view. Not all, but probably most. I quit watching TV decades ago and movies a couple or more decades ago, and even then any movies I watched were few and far between.

98 posted on 12/05/2011 9:16:35 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: Siena Dreaming
The Penn State was a warm-up IMO.

Every time I see Jerry Sandusky speak on the tube it gives me the creeps. That guy has not only a very creepy voice but his whole demeanor is creepy.

99 posted on 12/06/2011 5:43:08 AM PST by PJ-Comix ("Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters" ---from the Buffetvad Gita)
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To: Siena Dreaming

There will be a massive push to legalize it before that happens. The elite will protect their own, to the extreme.


100 posted on 12/06/2011 6:23:11 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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