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To: Owl_Eagle
Why excerpt?

Orange County Sheriff's Office investigators have arrested a Walt Disney World employee who worked as the character "Tigger" and charged him with molesting a 13-year-old girl and her mother while posing with them for pictures in February.

Michael Chartrand, 36, was charged with one count of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child between 12 and 15 years old and one count of simple battery.

He was booked into the Orange County Jail today on a $2,500 bond.

A Disney spokeswoman said Chartrand has been suspended without pay.

The sheriff's office received a complaint that a costumed character at Disney World had touched a girl and her mother inappropriately while their pictures were being taken with the character Feb. 21. According to an incident report, Chartrand fondled the breasts of the girl and the mother while posing for pictures at the Magic Kingdom's Toon Town.

"As the photo was being taken, [the victim] claims that Tigger moved his right hand up to her right breast and started massaging it several times," the incident report states. [The victim] became very embarrassed and ashamed of the incident and claims that she did not say anything to her mother until they left the park."

Later, the girl learned that the costumed character had done the same thing to her mother with his left hand, the report says.

The girl and her father reported the incident on Feb. 29.
7 posted on 04/02/2004 1:36:32 PM PST by VMI70 (...but two Wrights made an airplane)
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To: VMI70
Later, the girl learned that the costumed character had done the same thing to her mother with his left hand, the report says.

Heh, and evidently mom didn’t pitch a fit?

14 posted on 04/02/2004 1:43:26 PM PST by Who dat?
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To: VMI70; Admin Moderator
Why excerpt?
 
I didn't know this until I hit the post button but apparently the Orlando Sentinel has to be excerpted.  I did auto excerpt and there's hardly any of the article posted, so I've gotta take a hit for that laziness.
 
Please don't take this the wrong way, but in order to keep JimRob out of trouble, I'm going to ping the mod to have your post taken down just so we're not giving the commies something to come after him with.
Owl_Eagle
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24 posted on 04/02/2004 1:56:45 PM PST by End Times Sentinel ("I AIN'T GOT TIME FO' YO' JIBBA JABBA, FOOL!!!"~ Mr. T.)
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