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Mall Santa Busted For Groping Female Elf, 18
The Smokingg G ^ | NOVEMBER 25

Posted on 11/26/2013 6:24:36 AM PST by Gamecock

NOVEMBER 25--A 62-year-old mall Santa Claus was arrested Saturday after allegedly pinching the buttocks of an 18-year-old woman who worked with him as an elf photographer, police report.

Herbert Jones was arraigned this morning in a Massachusetts court on an indecent assault and battery charge. Free on $1000 bail, Jones is next due in court on Christmas Eve on the felony count. A District Court judge directed Jones, pictured in the adjacent mug shot, to stay out of the Hanover Mall, and barred him from dressing up as Santa Claus for the balance of the holiday season.

According to a Hanover Police Department report, the elf told officers that “she walked by Santa who was in his chair at which point he reached up and pinched her buttocks.” Jones and the teenager work for a company that describes itself as “providing Santa Photographic services to the mall during the holiday season.”

According to a Hanover Police Department report, the elf told officers that “she walked by Santa who was in his chair at which point he reached up and pinched her buttocks.” Jones and the teenager work for a company that describes itself as “providing Santa Photographic services to the mall during the holiday season.”

The teen said that after the pinching she reported the incident to her manager, who later told her that “Santa wanted to speak with her.” When she subsequently met with Jones, he began to yell at her, saying “I would never have done something like that!”

Prior to the pinching, the woman told cops, Jones told her, “I wish you were a few years older and I was younger.”

A female coworker told police that she saw Jones “reach up in the area’s of [the victim’s] behind.” The witness said that while she was “unsure if his hand actually made contact” with the victim’s buttocks, the elf later reported “that Santa ‘pinched her butt.’”

When cops approached Jones in “Santa’s changing room,” he declared, “I did not touch that girl.” Jones, who was not in his Santa costume, was then arrested and escorted to a police cruiser.

During a subsequent recorded interview, Jones “was asked about the alleged pinching that occurred at the mall today.” He explained that he was seated in his Santa chair when the teenager “walked by and brushed her buttocks against his hand.” Jones added that he then “pulled his hand away in an attempt to avoid contact.”

Asked about the reported comment “I wish you were a few years older and I was younger,” Jones claimed that he “only stated that he wished he was young again so he could make different life choices and meant nothing else by it.” The teenage elf “took the conversation out of context,” added Jones.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: clintonlegacy; naughtysantalist; paulajones; sexualharassment
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To: Vaquero

We were playing a quiz at work the other day, identify the Christmas movie from a quote. They didn’t have my favorite (or any) quotes from Bad Santa. But I put it forth nevertheless.


41 posted on 11/26/2013 5:30:30 PM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: a fool in paradise

I am sure he (or she) could turn that into a Christmas jingle


42 posted on 11/26/2013 5:30:47 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
a felony out of pinching? seems a little over the top.

That's what I was thinking.

43 posted on 11/26/2013 5:35:02 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

Wait ... what? I thought the pinch was ont he bottom???


44 posted on 11/26/2013 5:38:25 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Revolting cat!

If you look up not guilty in the dictionary...


45 posted on 11/26/2013 5:44:54 PM PST by Gamecock (If you like your constitution, you can keep your constitution. Period. (M.S.))
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To: Revolting cat!

Lord have mercy!


46 posted on 11/26/2013 6:31:38 PM PST by Vote 4 Nixon (EAT...FISH...SLEEP...REDUX)
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To: PLMerite
We were playing a quiz at work the other day, identify the Christmas movie from a quote. They didn’t have my favorite (or any) quotes from Bad Santa. But I put it forth nevertheless.

the one about not have a normal BM for a week?

47 posted on 11/27/2013 6:09:15 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

That’s the one!


48 posted on 11/27/2013 6:10:16 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Cementjungle
If the guy had slugged her and knocked her out he would of only been charged with misdemeanor assault.
49 posted on 11/27/2013 7:53:19 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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