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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (936495)5/23/2016 8:45:53 PM
From: Broken_Clock  Respond to of 1577883
 
Let's start and focus on three areas:
Hollywood
Politicians
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Elijah Wood: Hollywood’s child sex abuse comparable to Jimmy Savile case

Lord of the Rings star draws parallels between attacks carried out by British TV personality and paedophile rings in Los Angeles


‘There are a lot of vipers in this industry’ … Elijah Wood. Photograph: Victoria Will/AP
Catherine Shoard

@catherineshoard

Monday 23 May 2016 04.58 EDTLast modified on Monday 23 May 201615.10 EDT

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Elijah Wood, the actor who took his first film role aged eight before starring in the Lord of the Rings movies, has said that organised sexual abuse of children in Hollywood is rife.

Speaking to the Sunday Times, Wood said that although he had been protected as a child – mainly through the efforts of his mother, who stopped him going to parties – many of his peers were regularly “preyed upon”.

Wood, now 35, drew parallels between such experiences and the prolific sexual abuse perpetrated by TV host Jimmy Savile. “You all grew up with Savile,” said Wood. “Jesus, it must have been devastating. Clearly something major was going on in Hollywood. It was all organised. There are a lot of vipers in this industry – people who only have their own interests in mind.”

“There is darkness in the underbelly,” he added. “If you can imagine it, it’s probably happened.”

The actor said he felt that such crimes continue to be unpunished because the victims “can’t speak as loudly as people in power”. “That’s the tragedy of attempting to reveal what is happening to innocent people. They can be squashed, but their lives have been irreparably damaged.”


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Allegations against senior figures in Hollywood have increased in recent years. Last year, Amy Berg’s documentary An Open Secret alleged similar levels of collusion over child molestation in the film industry.

In 2012, the actor Corey Feldman spoke out about the threat he felt in the 1980s, saying he was “surrounded” by abusers, with around 15 older men “leching around like vultures”.

Bizparentz, a group founded to help child actors, claims around 100 active abusers are currently being sheltered, and says a “tsunami” of cases is pending.



To: Wharf Rat who wrote (936495)5/24/2016 9:46:10 AM
From: Brumar89  Respond to of 1577883
 
From Psalm 106: “They mingled with the nations and adopted their customs. They worshiped their idols which became a snare to them. They sacrificed their sons and their daughter to demons. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan and the land was desecrated by their blood.”

From Jeremiah 1: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. Before you were born I set you apart;......"

From Isaiah 49: "The Lord hath called me from the womb: from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name."

From Psalm 139: "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made."

Proverbs 24: 11 “Rescue those being led away to death, hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say ‘But we knew nothing of this,’ does not He who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?”

Modern medical science has established that a separate human life begins at conception. Modern imaging systems allow people to see unborn children and modern medicine allows man premature births to survive and grow into normal adults. So people can no longer truthfully say, We knew nothing of this.