Kevin Clash is no longer Elmo, but that won't stop the lawsuits from piling up. TMZ is reporting that a fourth person has come forward and filed a lawsuit claiming Clash took advantage of him when he was 16 and 17 and paid for his vacations to New York City.
After the last two weeks of Internet outrage, the creeps on Reddit are still posting inappropriate photos, including ones of minors, and the Reddit powers that be would like to take it from here.
Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky has been given a sentence of not less than 30 years, but not more than 60 years in prison, essentially guarantee that 68-year-old convicted child abuser will stay in jail for the rest of his life.
Hours before he is to be sentenced for his child sexual abuse conviction, former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky has released a bizarre jailhouse audio tape where he professes his innocence and blames his victims for orchestrating a conspiracy against him.
In one of the more disturbing reads this morning, The New York Daily News has an exclusive with a Pennsylvania man who alleges that Sandusky was a member of a tri-state child-prostitution ring involving a football coach at a top-tier Brooklyn private school.
Baseball Hall of Fame columnist Bill Conlin retired from the Philadelphia Daily News after three women and one man accused the 77-year-old writer of molesting them when they were children in the 1970s.
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