Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Producer Accused of Fondling 8 Child Actors
Photo: As a college student, Gary Goddard (standing on the left) led a group of highschool- and junior-high-aged boys that included Mark Driscoll (standing right).
HOLLYWOOD: To the young male actors in his retinue in Santa Barbara in the 1970s, Gary Goddard was an exalted figure.
A successful former theater prodigy, Goddard returned through his 20s to direct and mentor child actors in his hometown, vowing to bring the most talented with him to Hollywood.
He attracted a constant orbit of devoted boys others referred to as the "Goddardites." But the seemingly idyllic setting of privilege and promise had a dark edge for several members of the theater group.
Four decades later, many of them say they have been haunted by their encounters with Goddard.
Since actor Anthony Edwards wrote in an online essay last month that Goddard sexually abused him as a pubescent actor in Santa Barbara, seven others from the theater group told the Los Angeles Times that their former mentor molested or attempted to molest them as boys.
They describe Goddard's advances as ranging from straying hands on thighs during lulls in a production or fondling in a darkened Disneyland ride, to repeated incidents of sexual abuse during a troupe's overnight stays in a statewide tour.
"This is a man who's attracted to little boys, and attracted in the sickest way," said Edwards, an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actor known for roles in "Top Gun" and "ER." "This is not love, this is not friendship what he was doing. It is a horror because it is manipulating young hearts and minds."
Creepiest part of the article:
"But there was a downside to his attention, several of his former proteges said, causing them to avoid being last in the car with Goddard, or closest to his bed on an overnight trip."
The worst kept secret in Hollywood nowadays is over the so called pedophile ring of producers, actors, agents, managers and even politicians that have been passing these kids around like a bad pennies and throwing them away when they were done with them. If this plays out and names are named, then criminal prosecutions will follow.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-goddard-accusers-20171220-story.html
Thursday, November 30, 2017
YouTube Kills Ads on 50,000 Creepy Channels
For the second time in less than a year, major advertisers are fleeing YouTube after finding their ads were paired with offensive content -- this time, directed at children.
And the number of disturbing videos targeted at child audiences is much larger than previously known, YouTube's response reveals.
"Finally, over the past week we removed ads from nearly 2 million videos and over 50,000 channels masquerading as family-friendly content," the Google-owned company said in a statement to VICE News. "Content that endangers children is abhorrent and unacceptable to us."
Toy Freaks, for example, was until this month one of the 100 most-viewed YouTube channels, with more than 8.5 million subscribers to its videos, some of which featured strange content that included children in pain and throwing up. YouTube terminated the Toy Freaks channel in mid-November, after a Medium essay highlighting its content went viral.
Finally....
Attention is being paid by the social media companies to what they are doing, instead of just focusing upon the collection of as much money as possible.
It is a paradigm-change for the likes of Facebook and google, the magnitude of which would be akin to Republicans actually caring about the middle-class that elected them.
LOL... That explains why YouTube cut ads on Alex Jones
http://www.memeorandum.com/171128/p69#a171128p69
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