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Post by artemis on Nov 8, 2012 5:57:36 GMT -5
FCARLETT WHOREHANSSON in her interview for V magazine:
"On her sex appeal: “I think all little girls are aware of their sex appeal, I think probably more so when they’re pubescent. I mean I remember being an extremely flirtatious little girl. I liked boys."
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Post by artemis on Nov 8, 2012 6:03:03 GMT -5
"Ariel Winter's Mother Denies Abusing "Modern Family" Child Star
After "Modern Family" star Ariel Winter was removed from her mother's home due to abuse allegations, Chris Workman has come forward to deny any wrongdoing.
The 14-year-old actress's mother tells People, "It's all untrue, it's all untrue," claiming, "I have my doctor's letter that my daughter's never been abused. … I have stylists' letters that she's never been abused."
However, on October 3rd, Court papers allege that Ariel was subjected to "ongoing physical abuse (slapping, hitting, pushing) and emotional abuse (vile name-calling, personal insult's about minor and minor's weight, attempts to 'sexualize' minor, deprivation of food, etc.) for an extended period of time."
Consequently, the judge granted her older sister, Shanelle Gray, temporary guardianship of the young actress and ordered her mother not to contact her daughter or come within 100 feet of her. A follow-up hearing will be held on November 20th."
" ‘Modern Family’ star Ariel Winter removed from home amid abuse allegations
On “Modern Family,” Ariel Winter’s know-it-all character Alex Dunphy may often be at odds with her parents, but it’s always out of love. In real life, the 14-year-old actress’ relationship with her mother and father is a little rockier.
On Wednesday, it was reported that Winter was removed from the home she shares with her mother, Crystal Workman, following an October 3 guardianship hearing where a judge determined the teen was being both physically and mentally abused by her mom, according to TMZ. The judge also ruled that Winter’s mother must stay at least 100 feet away from her at all times. That same day, the young star tweeted, “ALWAYS be strong. Stand up for yourself,” possibly hinting at what she has endured at home.
According to the Associated Press, court documents stated the "ongoing physical abuse" consisted of "slapping and hitting, as well as name-calling and personal insults.” When reached for comment, Workman – who has been cut off from access to her daughter’s earnings at this time – told the AP she was in the process of hiring an attorney.
For the time being, Winter has been placed under the care of her older sister, Shanelle Gray, a former actress herself, who has reportedly filed for legal guardianship of Winter. Two days after she moved into Gray’s home, Winter tweeted about much she loved her 34-year-old sibling. Earlier that day, she wrote, “Don't lie anymore. You know who you are.”
Gray, who has two children, apparently suffered similar abuse at the hands of their mother, a source tells TMZ. According to the report, more than 20 years ago, the Department of Children and Family Services removed Shanelle from the Workman home and placed her in foster care for two years – and she never returned to her family. The child actress took nearly a decade off from acting before landing the role of Sarah Roberts on “One Live To Live” in 2003.
Winter and Gray also have a brother in the business, Jimmy Workman, 32, who played Pugsley in “The Addams Family” film series. In an interview with “Entertainment Tonight” airing Wednesday evening, Jimmy insists that the allegations against his mother are completely untrue, adding that Winter doesn’t speak to the rest of their family and that Crystal does everything for her daughter. He also notes that the allegations Gray made 20 years ago are false as well.
Crystal Workman is due back in court on November 20."
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Post by artemis on Nov 9, 2012 6:14:18 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Nov 12, 2012 8:49:07 GMT -5
"Voice of Elmo Denies Sex w/ Underage Boy Takes Leave of Absence from Sesame Street"
Kevin Clash -- the man known as the voice of Elmo -- has taken a leave of absence from Sesame Street in the wake of allegations he had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy, TMZ has learned ... allegations Clash adamantly denies.
We've learned ... Sesame Workshop lawyers recently met with a 23-year-old man who claims he and Clash began a sexual relationship 7 years ago ... when he was 16 and Clash was 45.
Clash has acknowledged to TMZ he had a relationship with the young man -- but insists it only took place AFTER the accuser was an adult.
Sesame Workshop honchos tell TMZ ... "In June of this year, Sesame Workshop received a communication from a young man who alleged that he had a relationship with Kevin Clash beginning when he was 16-years-old. This was a personal relationship, unrelated to the workplace. We took the allegation very seriously and took immediate action."
Sesame Workshop officials acknowledge to TMZ they met with the accuser twice and had a number of other communications with him.
Sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell TMZ ... after the accuser's initial meeting with Sesame Street, the accuser felt Sesame Workshop's lawyers were trying to muzzle him ... so he lawyered up with Andreozzi and Associates -- the firm that represented one of the victims in the Jerry Sandusky child rape case.
On August 15, 2012 ... Andreozzi fired off a letter to Sesame, accusing the company of trying to "discredit the victim in order to protect its employee and the image of one of its most valuable characters," adding, "This approach places a greater value on a puppet than the well being of a young man."
Sesame Workshop officials tell TMZ ... they conducted a thorough investigation and determined the allegation of underage sex was unsubstantiated. They say they never tried to silence the accuser -- rather they asked for evidence supporting his claim, but he never produced it.
Officials also tell us they're suspicious because the accuser has an email which TMZ obtained -- purportedly sent to him by Clash, acknowledging they had the affair when he was 16. The officials say the accuser never mentioned such an email existed and they believe it's fraudulent.
But there were other emails between Clash and the accuser, and although they don't suggest there was underage sex, officials tell us they disciplined him for inappropriate use of company email.
Sesame Workshop honchos tell TMZ ... "Kevin insists that these allegations are false and defamatory and he has taken actions to protect his reputation. We have granted him a leave of absence to do so."
It is unclear why Clash wanted a leave of absence, since he denies the allegations of underage sex.
As for Clash, the voice actor tells TMZ, "I had a relationship with [the accuser]. It was between two consenting adults and I am deeply saddened that he is trying to make it into something it was not." Clash calls the accusations false and defamatory.
Finally Sesame Workshop officials tell TMZ the puppet is alive and well: "Elmo is bigger than any one person and will continue to be an integral part of Sesame Street to engage, educate and inspire children around the world."
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Post by artemis on Nov 19, 2012 5:13:15 GMT -5
"Brother of Mia Farrow Accused of Child Sex Abuse John Charles Villiers-Farrow, the brother of movie star Mia Farrow, was arrested Wednesday in Maryland on child sex abuse counts stemming from recent allegations of incidents going back to 2000, NBC Washington has confirmed. Villiers-Farrow, 66, was arrested after an investigation that began when two men came forward in August 2012. At the time, Anne Arundel County Police had recently received information that several children were sexually abused in the Edgewater area. The men told police that they were victims of sexual abuse from 2000 until 2008, when they were between nine years old and 16. They described Villiers-Farrow as a neighbor. Villiers-Farrow has been charged with second- and third-degree sex offenses, two counts of perverted practice, two counts of second-degree child abuse, several counts of sex abuse of a minor, and two counts of second-degree assault. He is being held on $250,000 bond, which was reduced Thursday from $800,000. Court documents claim that the boys were abused in Villiers-Farrow's home, and a few times in a nearby camper. The victims told police that Villiers-Farrow would show them pornographic movies. The encounters escalated to touching and then to oral sex, the documents said. Anyone else who may have been a victim is asked to contact Detective Josh Williams at 410-222-3484. Villiers-Farrow made headlines in 1992 when he commented on the controversy surrounding sister Mia's custody battle with Woody Allen and Allen's relationship with Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi. At the time, Villiers-Farrow told People magazine, Allen "is going to be indicted, and he's going to be ruined. I think when all of it comes out, he's going to go to jail." People described John as "a sometime screenwriter and boat salesman outside Annapolis, Md." A Baltimore Sun article from 1998 described "John Farrow" as co-owner of Chesapeake Catamaran Center in Annapolis, though that business has since been sold. Villiers-Farrow also had a brush with fame back in 1968, when he accompanied Mia and their sister, Prudence, to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India. The Beatles arrived in India to meet with Maharishi while the Farrows were there. He appeared as a teen in in the Robert Stack movie "John Paul Jones," which was written by his father, screenwriter and director John Farrow. Villiers-Farrow's mother was actress Maureen O'Sullivan. The website IMDB says Villiers-Farrow also had an uncredited role in the 1954 Elizabeth Taylor movie, "The Last Time I Saw Paris." And a Brooklyn newspaper said Villiers-Farrow was scheduled to have a movie role at the young age of 5 months, playing a baby in his father's movie "Blaze of Noon" with Anne Baxter and William Holden. Mia Farrow became famous for her roles in the TV show Peyton Place and in movies including Rosemary's Baby, and Woody Allen movies including Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose and Hannah and Her Sisters. More recently, she has served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and as an activist for humanitarian aid and political change in Sudan." www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Brother-of-Mia-Farrow-Accused-of-Child-Sex-Abuse.html
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Post by artemis on Dec 12, 2012 5:42:07 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Jan 2, 2013 16:26:02 GMT -5
"Julianne Hough Talks Childhood Abuse in Cosmopolitan February 2013
On growing up in the United Kingdom: "I was 10 years old looking like I was 28, being a very sensual dancer. I was a tormented little kid who had to put on this sexy facade because that was my job and my life. But my heart was the same, and I was this innocent little girl. I wanted so much love... While I was in London, I was abused, mentally, physically, everything I'm a very forgiving person, and I don't want to hurt anybody. What's past is past.... when I started hitting puberty, when I started becoming a woman and stopped being a little girl."
On not speaking much about the situation prior to now: “This is the farthest I’ve ever gotten into my London situation. I was told if I ever went back to the United States, three things were going to happen. One: I was going to amount to nothing. Two: I was going to work at Whataburger. And three: I was going to end up a slut. So, it was like, I can’t go back. I have to be this person.â€
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Post by artemis on Jan 3, 2013 15:44:31 GMT -5
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Post by lucy on Jan 30, 2013 19:42:59 GMT -5
Something that has happened in my area, a monk had been accused of molesting children while at a Catholic School in Ohio and in areas west of here had stabbed himself in the heart over the weekend. But the lawsuits against the "Church" will still go on.
This happens over and over again, Catholic "men of the cloth" do these things and they get shipped to a different location. Brush their sins under the rug so to speak, but the sins are piling up to the heavens...now they are facing all of these lawsuits....
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Post by artemis on Feb 2, 2013 8:14:01 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Mar 12, 2013 8:40:51 GMT -5
"Thousands of Dutch girls abused by priests since 1945: Report
Thousands of Dutch girls have suffered sexual and physical abuse by Roman Catholic Church officials since 1945, a report says.
An independent investigative commission, funded by the Dutch Bishop's Conference and mandated by the government, reported on Monday that the girls were molested by members of the clergy in their homes or in churches.
According to the report, they suffered physical abuse and intimidation at the hands of nuns at young women's homes.
The committee said around 40 percent of the girls interviewed in the study, led by former Hague mayor Wim Deetman, had been raped by priests or deacons.
In December 2011, the preliminary results of the investigation mainly focusing on children estimated that up to 20,000 of them were harassed at Catholic boarding schools between 1945 and 2010, and “several tens of thousands” faced abuse of some kind.
The latest follow-up study concentrated more on Catholic girls and young women, who in addition to boarding schools, were often sent to homes for unwed mothers run by nuns if they became pregnant without being married.
“In cases of physical violence without sexual abuse, both new and previous complaints point toward primarily female perpetrators, mostly nuns who worked as educators or caregivers,” the report said, adding, “In heavy cases of sexual abuse, the perpetrators were primarily male.”
Following of the revelations, the umbrella organization of the Dutch Catholic Church and religious institutions issued a statement and apologized, saying they will consider how to offer help to victims.
“Not only the doers are blameworthy, but also those who were to ensure things went properly in the homes and institutions where the girls were sheltered,” the statement said.
“Violating the physical and spiritual integrity of any person, especially that of children, is under all circumstances repulsive,” it added."
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Post by artemis on Mar 15, 2013 8:31:28 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on May 30, 2013 5:43:24 GMT -5
"Mother of Sex Abuse Victims Accuses 250+ of Pedophilia in Suit
A Maryland mother has filed a federal lawsuit against more than 250 people, calling them pedophiles after videos of her two daughters being sexually molested by their father and a co-conspirator were exchanged and circulated as part of a child porn series.
The suit, filed Monday in a Baltimore federal court, accuses 266 defendants – 84 of them named, while 182 are listed as “John Doe.”
The suit claims that some of the defendants received child porn containing the unnamed defendant’s daughters, who were 4 and 6 at the time, being “violently sexually assaulted by their father and a co-conspirator in 2008.”
Video and images from the sexual acts were packaged together and posted to the Internet, and were widely circulated under the series names “DKNY” and “YKND,” according to the complaint.
Attorney Steve Kelly, who is representing the plaintiff, told ABCNews.com that the middle-class family living in Maryland’s Ann Arundel County was at home in 2008 when federal agents showed up.
“The FBI burst in with full force and ripped the kids out of the house, and took the father off in handcuffs,” he said. “And that’s when the mother discovered this was happening.”
Of the defendants, 80 have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography, while four have been charged with receipt of child pornography, according to the complaint, while another 182 have been identified through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s Child Victim Identification Program, but not criminally charged.
Kelly said that the National Child Victim Identification Program was able to provide a list of names in which the defendant’s girls’ images were matches with images off defendants’ computers.
“Some of these corresponded with federal cases,” he said. “Some we don’t know. There are 186 John Does, where we don’t know the names. We’ve identified 84 of these guys. We have college professors, patent holders, clergy, law enforcement officials, military.”
The children’s father, who their mother does not want named to protect the privacy of her girls, and the co-conspirator pleaded guilty to federal charges relating to the case and were sentenced to 45 and 36 years in prison, respectively.
The complaint is asking for $8 million in compensatory damages and $24 million in punitive damages from each defendant."
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Post by artemis on Oct 28, 2013 16:56:42 GMT -5
"Mia Farrow's brother sentenced to 25 years in jail for sexually abusing two young boys over a period of eight years Mia Farrow's brother was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for the sexual abuse of two young boys over an eight-year period. Businessman John Villiers-Farrow pleaded guilty to two counts of child abuse after he was handed down 39 charges for the molestation of the boys who were his neighbors in Maryland in 2002. He pleaded guilty in July so he could get a lighter sentence but has always asserted his innocence. His sentence was suspended for 15 years, which means Villiers-Farrow will spend at least the next ten years in jail. Villers-Farrow, told the court in July that he only entered the guilty plea because it was the quickest way he could serve time and get home to his wife, Sandra Hall. The first victim moved near to Villiers-Farrow’s home when he was six-years-old, and came to know the family because they had a son who was a few years younger than him. The victim spent a lot of time at the family's home and Villiers-Farrow would buy him gifts, take him to baseball games and on other trips, the arrest document states. Prosecutors said that it was when the boy was between the ages of nine and 16 that he abused him regularly. In the same time period, a second boy who was friends with the first victim, was abused about a dozen times over five years, Deputy State Attorney Kathleen Rogers said. The victims told police that he would show them pornographic movies. The encounters escalated to touching and then to oral sex. Villiers-Farrow’s wife has stood by her husband since he was arrested and called the victims - who are now 20-years-old 'vipers'. His famous sister has not commented about the case involving her brother. When the charges were first made, NBC Washington noted it was not the first time Villiers-Farrow had been in the public eye. In 1992, he famously told PEOPLE magazine that Woody Allen, who had once been married to Farrow and fathered three of their children, would have serious legal trouble because of his relationship with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. Villiers-Farrow said: ‘[He’s] going to be indicted, and he’s going to be ruined. I think when all of it comes out, he’s going to jail.’ Allen, famous for his self-deprecating and neurotic on-film persona, began a romantic relationship with Farrow’s adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, 34 years his junior. Following the discovery of naked photos of Soon-Yi in Allen’s possession, Farrow split from Woody and launched a messy custody battle over their three children, Satchel, Dylan, and Moses. During the proceedings, which were closely followed, Farrow claimed that Allen had sexually abused Dylan, though the judge dismissed the claims because they were not substantiated. Farrow was awarded full custody, and Allen was denied visits with Dylan, who later changed her name to Malone. The couple's other adopted child, Moshe, who changed his name to Moses, chose not to see Allen at all. In Villiers-Farrow's case, the alleged victims claimed that the abuse happened during sleepovers at his home in Edgewater. In the opening statement of the trial in July the court was told that the first victim looked up to Villiers-Farrow and spent four months living with him after being physically abused by his own father. When the accusations were first made in August last year, investigators asked one of the victims to call Villiers-Farrow. During the conversation, which was recorded without Villiers-Farrow's knowledge, prosecutors said he did not deny sexually abusing the boy. The defense however, argued that Villiers-Farrow had never been left alone with the boys, and that one of them had solicited their alleged abuser for money. The allegations were made when Villers-Farrow refused to pay, his defense lawyer said." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478439/John-Villers-Farrow-Mia-Farrows-brother-sentenced-25-years-jail-sexually-abusing-young-boys-period-years.html
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Post by artemis on Oct 28, 2013 16:58:38 GMT -5
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