Kevin Clash exits from Sesame Street after teen conduct

[Bjarni]

Originally Posted by The Stryker

Why would the victim's care about the dude's life? They're the victims!

The third guy that came forward said he was a wonderful individual. Sure showed that appreciation by staying silent about his "molestation" until other two guys came forward and then stating that he too thought they were just doing so for the money before advertising his own book about it...

I have very little knowledge or respect for Kevin Clash. I never watched Elmo and I haven't seen that documentary which I'm sure paints a very realistic picture of who he is. But from the news stories I've read thus far, don't only make a big deal out of the fact that the kid was 16 and therefor underage, but also that the kid was a boy. These news organizations don't care about breaking the story first, they like the money they get for printing scandalous news stories. All of these kids can be telling the truth. It's happening over and over again that people in power, be it in the entertainment industry or anywhere else abuse people younger than themselves and they come forward one at a time years later. But it's one thing to file a police report and another thing to publicly destroy someone's entire life.
The first kid retracted everything after he supposedly got paid (I'm basing this only on what I've read in various news stories plastered on the Internet) and as soon as he got his money, he made a new statement to the press.
He's also the only one that claims to have been abused, the others claim to have been in a relationship with the man and the legality of that matter differs heavily from state to state to country to country. Having a consensual relationship with a 16 year old (even if you are 40) is not illegal in various places in the world.

The fact of the matter is, I feel I shouldn't know this much about the case. This should be discussed in a court of law and not on every single Internet message board.