Actress Allison Arngrim: “They look for kids whose parents are maybe going through a divorce, are very naïve, suffering with addiction problems, or are simply crazy stage parents who will look the other way.”
Dawn C. Chmielewski of the LA Times wrote back in 2012 that “At least a dozen child molestation and child pornography prosecutions since 2000 have involved actors, managers, production assistants and others in the entertainment industry.”[1]
One of those child managers was Bob Villard, who was convicted of child pornography back in 1987. Villard claimed that he worked with former young actors like Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio and Danny Nucci. He said that he had “guided the careers of dozens of successful film and television actors.”[2] Villard was far from alone. Ezel Ethan Channel, who was a temporary production assistant at Nickelodeon Animation Studio, was arrested for molesting a 14-year-old boy. Jason Michael Handy, who called himself “a pedophile, full blown” and who worked as a production assistant at Nickelodeon, was eventually sentenced to six years in prison for sexually exploiting six-year-olds. Martin Weiss, “a longtime talent manager who specialized in representing young actors,” was again sentenced to years in prison for sexually abusing boys. Many others could be named here.[3] The central question is simply this: Are these just isolated cases? Or is this this moral disease widespread in Hollywood? According to the available data, the answer is a resounding yes.[4]
Actress Allison Arngrim, who played in the Little House on the Prairie, declared, that pedophiles in Hollywood “They are typically very careful when choosing. They look for kids whose parents are maybe going through a divorce, are very naïve, suffering with addiction problems, or are simply crazy stage parents who will look the other way.” She added that parents also play a huge role in objectifying their kids: “In Hollywood, there are parents who will practically prostitute their kids in the hope they can make money and get ahead. It is a horrible trap that the kids are in. These people aren’t seeing their kid as a kid. It’s more common than you think.”[5]