Corey Feldman: "Pedophilia is Hollywood's Biggest Problem"

reply to post by Taupin Desciple


As a victim of exactly this kind of abuse at a very young age, I am very familiar with just exactly how much it can F up a person's life.

It's not what he did or didn't do when he was young that I find reprehensible, I can completely empathize with that, and even his silence for long afterward, but now decades later, only after his friend (also a victim) committed suicide does he come forward with this in the media, in what appears to be shameless self promotion and attention seeking, rather than a genuine attempt to expose criminal sexual abuse of children, while failing to actually expose anything in particular... It leaves open the possibility that others may have been made victims when he could have done this long ago and possibly prevented that, and perhaps left a pedophile free to continue such abuse.

Part of my family has been in the film industry for a few generations. (grandfather was nominated for an academy award). I got a glimpse into that world at parties and such, and grew up on the stories my dad and grandparents had during the time he was growing up, their friends being people like Marilyn Monroe and the Rat Pack. I gained a rather negative view of it all. Dirty and twisted dramas all the time.

During the time Corey Feldman was doing The Goonies, I was at Disneyland when some adults brought him there. He seemed new to California, and to me he seemed naive and overexcited. I was the same age, and sat next to him on the Submarine ride, and remember thinking he was a geek.

But when I think about those adults that were just chaperoning him around, not really talking to him or having any fun themselves.....it just looked like they were stuck with the job of walking the dog that day. It was strange. When he was hanging out with Michael Jackson, it seemed perfectly likely to me that he was used in all kinds of ways, by perhaps many people.

Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
reply to post by Taupin Desciple

 

As a victim of exactly this kind of abuse at a very young age, I am very familiar with just exactly how much it can F up a person's life.

It's not what he did or didn't do when he was young that I find reprehensible, I can completely empathize with that, and even his silence for long afterward, but now decades later, only after his friend (also a victim) committed suicide does he come forward with this in the media, in what appears to be shameless self promotion and attention seeking, rather than a genuine attempt to expose criminal sexual abuse of children, while failing to actually expose anything in particular... It leaves open the possibility that others may have been made victims when he could have done this long ago and possibly prevented that, and perhaps left a pedophile free to continue such abuse.

I appreciate your honesty and I'm sorry for what happened to you. It never happened to me, so while I may not be able to relate, I can understand that no child should have to go through that.

Maybe if he had said something in more detail, as in names, a little sooner than he did, someone or some people could have been brought to justice. I have a hard time believing though that if one or ten pedophiles go to jail, that there won't be one or ten more waiting in the wings to take ther place.

Call me cynical or ruthless, but I really don't believe that this problem will totally end until all pedophiles are quckly eradicated, their younger victims getting treatment that will ensure they will not repeat what was done to them, whatever that treatment may be, and then the older victims taken on a case by case basis as to whether or not they have repeated the crimes in question. If they have, erdicate them. If they haven't, give them evaluations and treatments to ensure that they won't. Again, whatever those treatments may have to be.

If people think that's extreme, picture the alternative. Picture more generations of sexually abused children that have to live through an emotional hell. Who do not get to be real children.

Corey Feldman may not have done the right thing by not stepping forward sooner, but even if he did, it wouldn't have made a difference IMO.

Originally posted by Taupin Desciple

Corey Feldman may not have done the right thing by not stepping forward sooner, but even if he did, it wouldn't have made a difference IMO

So, then it's okay, we should just look the other way, because it really doesn't make any difference.

Try selling that to victims that would not have been victims if someone who could have, had done something, anything they could, as soon as possible.

You're right, it really doesn't matter now.

Originally posted by Fractured.Facade

Originally posted by Taupin Desciple

Corey Feldman may not have done the right thing by not stepping forward sooner, but even if he did, it wouldn't have made a difference IMO

So, then it's okay, we should just look the other way, because it really doesn't make any difference.

Try selling that to victims that would not have been victims if someone who could have, had done something, anything they could, as soon as possible.

You're right, it really doesn't matter now.

edit on 12-8-2011 by Fractured.Facade because: (no reason given)

Nobody should ever look away from this problem.

When I said it doesn't matter, I meant that it doesn't matter because of the fact that there will be more pedo's to take the place of the ones that have been locked up. I didn't mean to imply that it doesn't matter to the victims.

If naming names makes victims feel better, and I'm sure it would, they need to undersatnd and accept the fact that it's going to be shortlived because there are going to be more pedophiles to take the place of the one's that have been locked up, and there's no amount of name dropping that is going to change that. The only real solution to this problem, and victims of this crime should understand this better than anyone, is the swift and total erdication of all people like this.

If prison populations don't tolerate people like this, why should we?

That's right, I forgot, we're civilized. Let the animals take care of the problem. God forbid if we should get our hands dirty.

In my opinion, and the experience I have, Making a statement as such is one of two things both of which are punishable by law.

1. Having knowledge of a criminal events and not giving names or occurrences is harboring fugitives and makes one guilty by association.
2.Knowingly and willingly making false accusations to the police is punishable by law. If not given to the police, it becomes libel or Slander(depending on written or spoken), punishable by Civil action.

Corey has placed himself between a rock and a hard place by not divulging names or occurrences. If he wants to expose the situation without "implicating" or "exposing" himself there is always "Crime Stoppers". It does no good to simply state that a problem exists without examples. I understand that by bringing it out it may help others to come forward, however, without names and places it is like saying "People eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in Philadelphia". This is a global problem and to assume that it does not exist in Hollywood is naive.

Corey has exposed nothing. The burden of proof is on his shoulders at the moment, at least until he formally accuses a person or persons. This is a sick situation as it is occurring and I for one want names. These people(and I use the term lightly) need to be punished. If it hurts their career, so be it, they should have thought of that to begin with. The problems in Hollywood are extreme and for the most part ignored and this needs to stop. Simply because they "act" in the movies or shows does not warrant the status they receive. They are treated a gods and goddesses for what?

The whole situation called Hollywood sickens me with all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes. Any one else who is found out doing illegal things like sex crimes, drugs, violence are shunned in society but actors for some reason are excused as "oh they have a hard life living in the shows and public view, send them to treatment" while the rest of us go to jail with no chance of special treatment. I find this as wrong. We are all held to the same laws, there should be no special treatment regardless of status or position.



Many of the comments in this thread attack others for asking for proof or names. It is almost like it is a surprise to them that it is even being asked for. To me this makes no sense whatsoever. Go to any thread that makes a statement and every one of them has people asking for links or some sort of proof. What makes this any different? Just because it is a public figure("has been" or not) does not make it fact without proof and it is everyones right to expect it in situations like this. I didn't see anyone denying that it does not happen(as that would be a silly assumption) they only want more information to back up the allegations. Would you expect anything less from this site?



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Originally posted by yeahright

The following is my opinion as a member participating in this discussion.

Originally posted by Taupin Desciple
Corey Feldman may not have done the right thing by not stepping forward sooner, but even if he did, it wouldn't have made a difference IMO.

The Star Thrower

Point taken and I agree.

Every single individual is important and, even if it doesn't stop the problem, it helps the victim in the short term. And that's good. It helps them heal. All I'm saying is that if you don't stop the reason why the starfish need to be thrown back into the ocean in the first place, the tide is going to keep washing them ashore.

Stories of inspiration like that will always tug at the heartstrings. They really do. But if we take care of the bigger problem that dictates that we need stories of inspiration like that to help us make sense of the world, wouldn't that be more inspiring?

Wouldn't it be more inspiring to know that children will no longer have to suffer this way?

Wouldn't it be more inspiring to know that we have advanced as a race to the point where we had the fortitude, the strength, to take care of a problem in a "politically incorrect" way that has caused so many so much pain during the course of so many centuries?


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