X-Men director Bryan Singer accused of sexually abusing underage male child actor..

UK Daily Mail ^ | April 17, 2014 | Ashley Collman

[C19fan]

Just a month before his next film X-Men: Days of Future Past is set to release, director Bryan Singer has been accused of child molestation. According to documents filed in Hawaii, 31-year-old Michael Egan claims Singer used his power in the entertainment industry to sexually exploit him when he was an underage teen actor striking it out in Los Angeles. Now Egan is suing the director, for $300,000 for the 'catastrophic psychological and emotional injuries' he says he suffered, the documents filed Wednesday explain.

[ExCTCitizen]

It could be a trade paperback. Or a textbook.

[dfwgator]

Any one who names names, will wind up sleeping with the fishes, no doubt. Pedophiles will do anything to protect their rings.

[raybbr]

Yeah. There are large numbers of cases where this happens, and the victim’s trauma doesn’t initiate for years or decades later.

Especially when the "abuser" makes a lot of money "decades later".

[Buckeye McFrog]

It turned out to be a resume builder for Roman Polanski.

I know a guy who turned out a high-paying gig as a tradesman in Hollywood because he would have had to work with so many pedophiles.

[MrEdd]

Because it is a college psychology textbook in a specialized area of the discipline.
62 dollars is cheap as such things go.

[BenLurkin]

[MrEdd]

Actually, (if you ever bothered to look) a lot of these cases are blood out of a stone things.

[ErnBatavia]

That would qualify as bestiality....

[A'elian' nation]

“but a civil suit supposedly for something that happened almost 2 decades ago. “

I’m only aware of this because I’ve lived in Hawaii, but 2 decades ago the age of legal consent in Hawaii was 14. It is ironic that this civil suit is taking place in a state so liberal with its sex laws.

Now the age of consent in Hawaii is 16, but there is a close in age exception which allows 14 and 15 yr-olds to consent to sex with those less than 5 years older.

I apologize for being more knowledgeable about this than one ought to be :)

[MrEdd]

I read the story. This started at age fourteen and was still going on at seventeen.

Yes. We know. You don’t call fourteen a child either.

[Jeff Chandler]

It’s called “Democrat Love”.

[Scoutmaster]

His timing may have nothing to do with the movie. On April 24, 2012, Hawaii changed the statute of limitations on the crime of child sexual abuse. In doing so, it extended the statute of limitations for some existing potential claims until April 24, 2014.

This plaintiff appears to filing just under the deadline.

[TurboZamboni]

That’s what Corey Feldman has said.

[Misterioso]

We can’t all be from Brooklyn, Dave.

[Misterioso]

If people should “read up” on this, please provide a link.

You need "a link" to be encouraged to read a book. This explains your ignorance.

[wardaddy]

Lol

Ouch....

[Third Person]

Just ask Brad Renfro.

[wideawake]

What is your argument, exactly?

That I should just intuitively know what book - out of the thousands of titles published on abnormal psychology - is the best one on this particular topic?

Shouldn't I ask someone who considers himself an expert on the subject what books he would recommend?

Speaking of which, which book would you recommend for learning how to become a clueless, condescending tool? I'd appreciate your expertise.