Shane Sparks
December 21, 2009
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As Hollyscoop previously reported, The America’s Best Dane Crew judge was taken into custody on Friday and charged with eight counts of child molestation. But his attorney, Steve Meister, tells TMZ the claims are outrageous since the woman waited 15 years before she came forward.
"It's a bogus accusation that reeks of opportunism and exploitation. The timing is beyond suspicious, and this whole thing stinks to high heaven,” said Meister.
Meister says the charges "are completely without merit" and that Sparks "knows he is innocent and will fight to clear his name." Sparks and his lawyer are referring to the woman’s claims as “extortion, Hollywood style.”
"Shane Sparks is innocent, he knows it and soon the world will know it. We are going to fight this tooth and nail,” Meister told E! News.
Up next is the hearing! Do you think Sparks is innocent?
December 18, 2009
According to TMZ, Sparks, who is also a choreographer on So You Think You Can Dance, was taken in by the LAPD at 8AM on a felony warrant. The alleged incidents began in and continued for several years. And according to the criminal complaint Shane allegedly committed the crimes of lewd acts upon a child.
Sparks has been charged with 8 incidents of alleged molestation with an underage girl. The lewd acts include oral copulation and other acts "with the intent of arousing, appealing to, and gratifying the lust, passions, and sexual desires of the defendant, who was at least 10 years older than [the victim]."
He’s being held on $590,000 bail. This is so gross! Guess you really never what goes on behind closed doors!
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