10-07-2014, 04:39 PM
This is just a creepy story all the way around.
Actor Stephen Collins ^ is being investigated for child molestation.
He's going through a contentious divorce from his wife, Faye Grant, and was secretly recorded in a therapy session confessing to molesting three children related to his first wife. That tape has made its ways into the hands of..............you guessed it: TMZ.
Grant was apparently contacted by one of the girls he allegedly molested years ago, but he told her then that he had a hole in his jeans and the girl happened to see his penis. In January 2012, she found out that he was in fact a molester and claims that he's not remorseful, just full of excuses and sorry for himself.
After the tape was released on the TMZ website today, his career started crumbling before his eyes. He was immediately dropped from the "Ted" movie sequel, he "resigned" from the national board of the Screen Actors' Guild, and the Los Angeles Police Department is revisiting a 2012 molestation investigation from an anonymous tip that went nowhere because, at the time, the alleged victims of Collins hadn't been identified.
I don't know if a tape secretly recorded in a therapy session would hold up in a criminal court of law. But, I'd guess a criminal case could move forward anyway if now-identified victims feel compelled to press charges and testify.
Full stories:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/07...44654.html
http://www.tmz.com/
Actor Stephen Collins ^ is being investigated for child molestation.
He's going through a contentious divorce from his wife, Faye Grant, and was secretly recorded in a therapy session confessing to molesting three children related to his first wife. That tape has made its ways into the hands of..............you guessed it: TMZ.
Grant was apparently contacted by one of the girls he allegedly molested years ago, but he told her then that he had a hole in his jeans and the girl happened to see his penis. In January 2012, she found out that he was in fact a molester and claims that he's not remorseful, just full of excuses and sorry for himself.
After the tape was released on the TMZ website today, his career started crumbling before his eyes. He was immediately dropped from the "Ted" movie sequel, he "resigned" from the national board of the Screen Actors' Guild, and the Los Angeles Police Department is revisiting a 2012 molestation investigation from an anonymous tip that went nowhere because, at the time, the alleged victims of Collins hadn't been identified.
I don't know if a tape secretly recorded in a therapy session would hold up in a criminal court of law. But, I'd guess a criminal case could move forward anyway if now-identified victims feel compelled to press charges and testify.
Full stories:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/07...44654.html
http://www.tmz.com/