And the latest is.....

[Skids]

And now he's pulled out of the show.

I wonder if it will be cancelled all together? I'll be seeking a refund.

It's funny how an accused can be named in this circumstance, yet a rock spider or someone under 18 whos committed an atrocious crime can maintain anonymity

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[David]

That was a strange case, certainly. The news reports don't quite make it clear what he actually did, apart from admitting an interest in underage boys.

https://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au ... n/3284123/

He said the facts in the McCormack case were quite different to the cases of similar charges that normally came to court. In his judgment he said it was clear the worst aspects of child porn cases were "absent" in McCormack's case

"There was no transmission of pictures or images of child pornography ... it does not include pictures of actual child victims. There was no attempt to sexually exploit children or grooming of any child to partake in child pornography."

The Crown referred to the content of the conversations and also of a video McCormack sent to the man of him masturbating as proof of the "objective seriousness of the offences" and dismissed the defence of fantasy talk as "irrelevant".

But Judge Conlon said the "overwhelming inference that I drew was that these conversations were examples of fantasising about young male persons."

"The fact that this offender's communications were the product of fantasy and imaginings is just one of the many factors a court is entitled to consider in assessing the seriousness of the offending conduct."

If he encouraged other people to commit sexual abuse, that would be a genuine (if, in this realm, relatively minor) offence. But I haven't seen any suggestion that that occurred.

[Wokko]

Society never learns. There were false accusations and a destroyed career back in the silent movie days.

http://historycollection.co/top-10-hist ... m-today/6/

[Skids]

There's going to be a lot of empty seats.... a class action to get our money back perhaps?

Rocky Horror Show not offering refunds despite punters criticising Craig McLachlan's departure

A BASS spokesperson said the ticket outlet operated "in accordance with the Ticketing Code of Practice"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-09/r ... ie/9313952

Wankers!

[stui magpie]

Interesting that, as far as I can see, all the allegations relate to the 2014 rocky horror show tour.

None from prior tours, none from after and none from any of the other work he's done. hardly a systematic pattern emerging.

[Wokko]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... MP=soc_568

Two more allegations; accusers have gone to the police. Unless this is some weird collusion from people out to get him/a setup then this is pretty damning.

Strange that it's all from one tour back in 2014; maybe he was going off the rails or something, either that or the flood gates are about to open I guess.

[Skids]

[ronrat]

And now cricketers for having a smoke of a perfectly legal product whilst relaxing. What are these wankers trying to achieve?

Going to be boring when the only actors in movies will be gay. If I am going to watch an all girl movie I will not have any fat middle aged rich bitches in them.

This will lead us up a path not seen since the reds under the beds scares of the 1950s. We lost a talent over that. Maybe producers should fight back by only employing fat ugly women. I can see this becoming "he looked at me in the lift " in general society and have perfectly innocent people being denied promotion or moved sideways . Pubs will have to start banning patrons from pubs etc for fear of litigation. "he called me love"

The Iron Shiek and Dane Swan should be the only ones allowed twitter.

[David]

[Mugwump]

One of the many problems with the technology we have today is that things are very over-generalized. An issue is identified, such as sexual harassment by sleazebags, and then a hundred other cases are brought to light, some severe and nasty, some frivolous or trivial. Each case has context, shades of understanding and nuance. These are completely lost, however, when the case concerned is absorbed into the black hole of the general "issue" by the twittermob. We are overexposed, and swamped with things competing for our feelings, so first we lose interest in facts. Then we lose the art of discriminating and judging truth itself, let alone the relative importance of things.

[David]

[Skids]

[David]

[think positive]