A federal judge in Pennsylvania has thrown out a sexual abuse lawsuit against Elmo Puppeteer Kevin Clash. Find out why and read more on the story after the jump!
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has thrown out a sexual abuse lawsuit against Elmo Puppeteer Kevin Clash. Find out why and read more on the story after the jump!
Kevin Clash has had quite a rough time for the past 8 or 9 months, when the former voice of Elmo was hit with back-to-back-to-back lawsuits from various men, claiming he’d had sex with them when they were under age. However, he had a huge victory in court today, when the judge ruled that three of his accusers (Cecil Singleton, Kevin Kiadii and a 3rd unnamed one) had waited too long to file their lawsuits. I’m not sure how many more are pending, but I’m assuming they’ll all find the same fate.
One of the five cases of underage sex against Kevin Clash has been dropped, because the accuser wants to focus on his career. (Or maybe…he just doesn’t have enough evidence!) His lawyer says there’s been no settlement, but his client stands by his story that it definitely happened. Maybe the others will follow suit?
They won’t leave this poor man alone! He’s already resigned, what more do you want?! One of his accusers from the original set of allegations, Sheldon Stephens, has brought a lawsuit against Clash, saying that he’d “lured” him into crystal meth parties when he was just 16. Come on, man! This is the same guy who sued Clash originally for the underage sex allegations, reached a settlement, said Clash never did it, then took it back because part of the settlement was for him to say that Clash never did it and he didn’t want to lie anymore. More details on this new suit below.
In the case of Kevin Clash’s three underage sex offense charges, they might be too little too late. According to CLash he Statute of limitations deadline for sexual offense cases of this sort is six years, and all three accusers incidents occurred more than ten years ago. Clash just filed a claim to have all three cases thrown out and he wants them thrown out now. The men claim that they didn’t realize the damage that he had caused until now and that is why they are coming out against it but Clash thinks that’s just BS. I have sympathy for those that have been molested, it’s not cool. I’m sure it could take some people a long time to realize the damage that was done to them, but the law is the law. Hit the jump for more.
Now you know this story was BIG! Kevin Clash, the guy who does (DID) the voice of Elmo for about 30+ years resigned, because of all the publicity behind this dude. Sheldon Stephens was the first of three accusers to expose Clash for sexual assault with a minor, and now… When Meek Mill started DreamChasers Records, he had a few artists in mind to sign on – Lee Mazin being one of them. Lee recently came out with a video and who’s the leading male character you ask. Drop down bottom and tell me that I’m not crazy.