‘Glee’ Actor Mark Salling Reportedly Arrested in Child Pornography Case

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: KTLA

“Glee” actor Mark Salling was arrested Tuesday after an LAPD Internet Crimes Against Children task force unit served a search warrant at his Sunland home, police said.

Authorities were sent to search the home in the 9900 block of Helen Avenue, Liliana Preciado of the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to KTLA.

Sources told Crime Watch Daily that Salling lives at the address and was arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography.

Salling’s arrest was confirmed by Tony Im of the Police Department, but Im did not say what the actor was arrested for.

Read more: http://ktla.com/2015/12/29/glee-actor-mark-salling-reportedly-arrested-in-child-pornography-case/

[Feeling the Bern]

1. As I was told in a private meeting with a producer in his 70s, in the business

There is no such thing as underage. Hollywood is a sick, perverted place and I just broke into it.

Glad my wife and I won't live in LA or NY. We'll stay in Asia.

[jberryhill]

2. "We'll stay in Asia"

Ah, yes, a continent known for the virtual absence of child sexual exploitation.

[Feeling the Bern]

6. Never said that, but relationships in Hollywood change after two people move to LA or NY

I'm happy with the home we'll buy in Northern Virginia and the condo we bought outside Shanghai.

[Skittles]

35. maybe you can afford to pony up a few bucks for DU

while you are purchasing residences

[Feeling the Bern]

40. Sorry, my donations are to places like UNICEF, World Hunger Year and the National Endowment

for the Arts. But thanks for telling me how I should spend the money I earn.

[Skittles]

42. OH AREN'T YOU SPECIAL

because the rest of us would NEVER do anything like that!!!

*PLEASE*

[Feeling the Bern]

44. Rude, but okay.

[Inkfreak]

28. lol

[Skittles]

43. yup

not very well thought out but, no surprise there

[mikehiggins]

3. kids

Years ago I knew a couple whose twin sons were really smart and really good looking. I asked them if they had considered getting them into modelling.

Their dad told me there was no way he would expose a child to the people he had already met in that field. He said they made him paranoid as to what they would want his boys to do.

The "kids" would be in their thirties now and I have no idea how they turned out (it's been awhile) but I always respected their parent's refusal to chase the easy money in order to protect their kids.

Kids are not our property; they are our responsibility. Even if they could make it in the entertainment industry it is often much like throwing them into a pool of hungry sharks. The fact that people like Michael Jackson, Roman Polanski, the guy from the sandwich shop and now an actor from Glee all got involved in this stuff to one degree or another just points out how the rot has taken root.

Fatty Arbuckle was not the first, nor the last, Hollywood figure to travel that road. Parents take warning.

[LeftinOH]

15. Fatty Arbuckle was acquitted! Trial by media; he was innocent.

[mikehiggins]

47. Sorry. I didn't know that. My bad. n/t

[BuelahWitch]

25. The woman Arbuckle allegedly killed was not a minor

She was in her late 20s, early 30s, not that much younger than Roscoe.

[mikehiggins]

48. Sorry. I didn't know that fact either. My bad, again. N/T

[closeupready]

5. Is that last line satire?

?? Or did you write that "from behind the looking glass"?

[Feeling the Bern]

8. Don't understand the tenor of your question.

[closeupready]

10. LA/NY are worse than Bangkok, Calcutta, or Burma?

[Feeling the Bern]

13. Considering I never lived in either Bangkok, Kolkutta or Burma. . .

I have lived in LA and NY though.

And as for Asia, my little neck of the world here is really enjoyable. Petaling Jaya in Malaysia and Wuxi in China are thoroughly enjoyable.

[JI7]

17. sex abuse is a problem in Malaysia and China also

[Feeling the Bern]

18. What is your point? My God. . .does everyone look for an argument

I didn't deny that. . .I just stated I am happy here.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. No actually you also called Hollywood a sick perverted place. So sick and perverted you seek to work

with and profit by it.

[Feeling the Bern]

22. And if I went into politics, I would feel the same way. Again, your point?

I lost my right to criticize an industry simply because I work in it?

[JI7]

20. you are the one who brought up being glad not to be

Somewhere because of sex abuse .

[Feeling the Bern]

23. There are more reasons than that why I am glad I don't live anywhere near LA or NY

[rjsquirrel]

30. What is your point?

[rjsquirrel]

29. lol whut?

Like "Asia" (a continent vs. specific countries, ok) is a bastion of progressive thinking?


What an odd comment.

[onehandle]

37. LOL!

'Feeling the Bern' from 'Asia.' Where no underaged individuals are abused whatsoever.

Sheesh!

[LexVegas]

45. I call bullshit. nt

[Feeling the Bern]

46. Call it all you want.

[shrike]

55. FWIW, I know someone in the industry, and her opinion is the same as yours. n/t

[Feeling the Bern]

59. Most people I know in the business (producer, writers, agents, on screen talent) look at it the way

I do.

It's those not in the business that tell me I am full of shit. I've been around it for the last 10 years trying to get my break.

I was shocked to shit when I was told there is no underage in the business. I actually called two people pedophiles, to which they laughed and said "not here it isn't."

[shrike]

60. Well, what can I say?

It sounds familiar, according to what she's told me.

Are you familiar with the documentary, "Open Secret"? I'm told its producer couldn't find a distributor, so few people have seen it.

[Feeling the Bern]

61. I've heard of it. Never saw it. It came out after I moved to Asia

But I am sure it just reinforces everything I've heard or been told.

Corey Feldman has been outspoken about the sexual abuse he dealt with in the 1980s. I think it's part of the reason he and Haim turned to drugs so much. Some things are just impossible for children to accept or comprehend.

[RandySF]

4. Not just perverted but incredibly dumb

Do people still think they can still get away with that?

[Feeling the Bern]

7. You wouldn't believe what people in Hollywood think they can get away with

and do because of the Fame Industrial Complex.

[Purveyor]

9. Just like the people in our nations capitol but they serve a bit different master. eomn

[Feeling the Bern]

12. Again, you would be surprised. The masters are all the same. Those that sell out to the masters

get the deals. Those that don't have to struggle for credibility, talent be damned. That was my struggle for 18 years.

I refused to sell out and I still refuse to sell out. Luckily, I have a film company completely sold on my talent and work that they don't care about the masters that run the world.

Keeping principles in a cesspool like Hollywood is almost impossible.

[rjsquirrel]

31. Your career struggle

has zero to do with this.

Likewise oligarchy has zero to do with this.

Likewise the continent on which one lives has zero to do with this.

Everything is not about you.

[CreekDog]

57. take a look at this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1187208

[CreekDog]

56. You said you were an economics teacher

Feeling the Bern (690 posts)
11. You're right. An economics teacher for the past 15 years knows nothing about economics

Thanks for marginalizing my education, experience and intelligence with one snarky response.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1187208

[Feeling the Bern]

58. I got my break and my screenplay contracts signed on December 14th.

I am making two salaries. . .my teaching salary in Malaysia and my writer/producer commissions out of Hong Kong.

[BlueJazz]

11. I hate to jump to conclusions on something like this. California law says:

"Child porn is under the age of 18". I understand some may differ on my opinion regarding these laws.
If the suspect was dating a late 17 year old lady and took a few pictures...that would be a big difference than something that Mr. Jared "Subway" was involved with.

The law does not differentiate on something like this but I tend to see it as maybe not as sick?

[LanternWaste]

14. I see little difference between a 33 year old exploiting a 17 year old and what Mr. Fogle did.

I see little relevant ethical difference between a 33 year old exploiting a 17 year old and Mr. Fogle exploiting 9-17 years old females.

[BlueJazz]

26. I've seen 17 1/2 year old women in California and other places I've been..

...China, India, Timbuktu that would exploit anybody and everybody plus teach just about every person on this forum a thing or two on how to con, distract, steal and quite possible how to kill ..so don't give me your meek little American don't-know-anything-at-all-about-life-cause-I'm-too-stupid and ignorant to understand bullshit.
You need to get out of your backyard.

[LanternWaste]

49. I can certainly understand your desire to justify a distinction

I can certainly understand your desire to justify a distinction; our personal demons often compel us to often rationalize exploitation of youth as something other than what it is if it assists us in validating our biases, regardless of the irrelevant and inaccurate observation of my backyard.

I can only hope you never act on these rationalizations. Good luck.

[Reter]

39. Wow

You see no difference between a 17 year old and a 9 year old? Just wow.

[Feeling the Bern]

41. A child is a child in the eyes of law.

[Reter]

51. Thankfully, NY law has the age of consent at 17

There is no way a 17 year old is the same as a real child.

[tabasco]

53. The law is not a stupid black and white paradigm, thankfully,

but thanks for playing.

[LanternWaste]

50. If you apply rational thought, you'll realize you've left out one critical word

If you apply rational thought, you'll realize you've left out one critical word from my statement (bias often compels us to interpret in such a way as to validate our biases). Insert the word 'ethical', try again with rational thought this time, and you may broaden your understanding.

Just wow, part two.

[Reter]

52. I didn't say it was ethical

But 17 is a lot more ethical than little kids.

[Liberalagogo]

16. From Wikipedia:

Salling was born in Dallas, Texas. He is the younger of two children of Condy Sue (née Wherry), a school secretary, and John Robert Salling, Jr., an accountant. He was home-schooled at an early age. Salling was raised in a "strict Christian home" and attended Providence Christian School and Our Redeemer Lutheran during elementary school. He attended, but did not graduate from Culver Military Academy, and later graduated from Lake Highlands High School in 2001, where he was a classmate of art rock musician Annie Clark, better known as St. Vincent. While he attended high school, he was a member of the school wrestling team.

I believe you'll find more answers in the above paragraph, than blaming Hollywood.

[7962]

21. Yes, I've always been suspicious of wrestlers.

[yeoman6987]

32. Hey that high school he graduated from didn't do him any favors.

[JI7]

24. he has been accused of doing something even before this

[yeoman6987]

33. Domestic assault on his girlfriend. I think it was either last year or 2011.

Why the disparity? I don't know. I just remember one of those dates and the other is wrong.

[bobthedrummer]

27. K&R and a link to a related topic about the unpunished sexual and other abuse of children

Chapter 21-Omaha
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016139460

[Jefferson23]

34. snip* Legal problems:

Salling was accused in January 2013 by a woman who stated that he committed sexual battery by forcing sex without a condom.[14][15][16] He has denied the charges and has filed a countersuit for defamation of character.[17]

On December 29, 2015, Salling was arrested at his home in Los Angeles on a felony charge of possession of child pornography.[18][19][20]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Salling

[Liberal_in_LA]

36. Supposedly he paid her 2.7 million.

[Jefferson23]

38. He sounds creepy, at least so far..we'll see what develops. n/t

[Chan790]

54. I know it wasn't you...

but that headline is awful, he wasn't "reportedly" arrested.

He was actually arrested following the service of a search warrant for his computer under suspicion of possession of child pornography. There is nothing alleged about it.