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[ti]sheep[/ti]Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash resigns from Sesame Street
Topic Started: Nov 22 2012, 12:51 AM (408 Views)
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Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash has resigned from Sesame Street after claims that he had sex with an under-aged boy.

Last week a man accused him of having sex with him when he was a teenager, which he denied.

The next day the man recanted the charge. A lawsuit by a second accuser has been filed, according to US lawyer Cecil Singleton.

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A Sesame Street statement said: "Kevin Clash has helped us achieve a mission for 28 years and none of us, especially Kevin, want anything to divert our attention from our focus on serving as a leading educational organisation.

"The controversy surrounding Kevin's personal life has become a distraction that no-one wants, and he has concluded that he can no longer be effective in his job and has resigned from Sesame Street.

"This is a sad day for Sesame Street."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/20416051


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Sesame Street producers defended Kevin Clash last week but said he had shown "poor judgement" in breaking company policy on using the internet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/20416051

Can't let a little thing like child sexual abuse get in the way of progress and success.

The producers sound really concerned about the children that may have been abused and who's lives may have been ruined due to it.

Truly, it is sad.
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Just ran across this want to get it noted here before I lose track of it.

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On Nov. 21 2011, 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.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/12/05/recent-charges-sexual-abuse-children-in-hollywood-just-tip-iceberg-experts-say/#ixzz2DHi7tQ00
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