Hollywood's favorite child molester

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Hollywood's favorite child molester
Michelle Malkin


September 24, 2003


One of the most popular movies currently playing at the box office, "Jeepers Creepers 2," is a teen horror flick directed by a stomach-turning registered sex offender who was convicted of molesting a 12-year-old-boy he targeted, groomed, seduced, and filmed in pornographic home videos.

Hollyweird strikes again.

The celebrity pervert's name is Victor Salva. The scheming Salva wrote children's books, participated in the Big Brother program, and worked at a San Francisco-area daycare center where he met his prey. He molested the victim, Nathan Winters, from the time the boy was 7.

Salva pleaded guilty in 1988 to five felony counts of child sex abuse; he served a measly 15 months of a pathetic three-year prison sentence. Winters' scars will last a lifetime.

Salva made Winters the star of his first feature film, "Clownhouse," a revolting low-budget movie about three murderous clowns who terrorize three young boys. (The movie won praise at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival.) While working on the project, Salva forced Winters to perform oral sex on the "critically acclaimed" director and captured the acts on tape. When police raided Salva's home, they found not only the sex videos of Salva and Winters, but also tapes of naked young men taking showers and a pornographic album of still photos.

After he was released on parole, convicted child molester Salva went on to write and direct the "critically acclaimed" 1995 movie "Powder," in which he worked with many young actors. Winters and his mother bravely went public to protest Salva's involvement. But his employers at Disney -- Disney! -- stood by him, as did liberal stars of the film, Mary Steenburgen and Jeff Goldblum. Also a staunch defender and patron of convicted child molester Salva's: director Francis Ford Coppola, whose company produced "Clownhouse" and the two Jeepers Creepers movies.

Convicted child molester Salva's saviors say their "talented" friend has paid his debt to society and should be left alone to express himself creatively and contribute positively to the movie industry. Separate the art from the artist, they preach. Just move on. That is patently impossible and irresponsible, however, when the director's "art" involves the continued sexual exploitation of -- and twisted obsession with -- young boys.

Consider the wretched plot of "Jeepers Creepers 2": An ancient demon dubbed "the Creeper" preys on teenage basketball players trapped in a broken-down bus on a rural highway. Convicted child molester Salva's camera lingers on the shirtless torsos of the boys, alive and dead. The boys, all buff and beautiful in that pedophilic Calvin Klein/Abercrombie and Fitch kind of way, sunbathe on the bus roof. The lascivious Creeper stalks and harvests his victims, devouring "certain parts of their anatomy while laminating the rest," in the words of one movie critic. This orgy of bare skin and blood splatter, the sophisticated artistes lecture us, is convicted child molester Salva's redeeming contribution to society.

Convicted child molester Salva and his corrupt Hollywood enablers gripe that he made a "single mistake" and doesn't deserve to be "slandered." The plain fact is that convicted child molesters such as Salva are enormously predisposed to reoffending. Sgt. Gary Primavera, the police officer who handled the Winters case, said: "Victor has every characteristic of a pedophile that I know of -- and I've worked with enough of them. There was no remorse. The only sadness on Victor's part was that he got caught."

It is an abomination that this man continues to enjoy a position of power and influence over young actors, making movies targeted to teens that indulge his dangerous sexual fetishes. The only thing safe and appropriate for convicted child molester Salva to direct are toilet bowl cleaner commercials.

Hollywood's greedy ghouls think otherwise. "Jeepers Creepers 2" has grossed nearly $40 million so far and remains in the top 10. Francis Ford Coppola's co-executive producer, Bobby Rock, glibly told the San Jose Mercury News last week: "The film did very well at the box office -- that's all that matters to us.''

Sick.

[BLUEHAWK]

a) if it weren't for that truism about "predisposed to reoffend", I'd agree with Hollywood.

b) once again, money talks clearer than decency.

[Arrow]

Get a rope....

[Keith_Hixson]

It is a nylon Mtn Climbing rope. Won't break until 3,500 lbs. Knots hold well.

Keith

[nang]

Makes me want to take my young un and go into the hills.

[Packo]

The man is a Pedophile. Doing "his time" in prison doesn't change his sexual preference. These are the people that today's hollywood revere. Didn't they just give Roman Polanski, another child molester hiding in France, (go figure), some sort of award. Yet they won't stand when the old director Kazan gets a lifetime achievement award. His crime, he named some hollywood types who were active members of the communist party.

Hollywood and the TV industry have been sexualizing our children for years.....their motive, get them sexually active young, get the laws of consent lowered, then you don't have to go to prison for molesting children. "Celebrities", you can have them.

Packo

[BLUEHAWK]

Paco -
I sure hope I get this said right, because it could create a misunderstanding if I don't...

You mentioned something that I've been thinking about a long time, re: people wanting to get the age of consent lowered and so on. I've been of the mind in recent years that it is probably soon gonna be inevitable for that to happen, for lots of reasons, few of them good if any. But, seems to me its all become sorta anthropological in scale, along the lines of evolution (not that it can't ever go back to where it should have been left). As I look backward, to when I was becoming burdened with puberty, it was now almost 45 years ago. That was just when everything started to change, beginning with the birth control pill and feminism. It was as if all of a sudden one day nearly everything turned 180 degrees from where it had been. Next thing I knew, everyone younger than me had already been conditioned to that new way, I was fumbling around trying to figure it out, and the cycle just keeps repeating itself even today. When I taught public school as a sub, it astounded me how parents would let daughters out of the house in 6th grade (!) wearing the type of clothing and make-up a 25 year old wears, for the very same purpose.

I guess it's all in the name of personal freedom or something, but I do believe it's gotten to where there is trouble, and I do not see any way to turn it around. So, what...I don't know, just makes me very sad to see this
happening. It does not bode well.

[Arrow]

Keith...sounds good to me...

Paco thanks for speaking my mind...and the end result of what you spoke of is exactly as Mike says it's played out in real life when we see little girls coming to school dressed like hookers because their parents are asleep at the wheel.....

[Packo]

Actually the age of consent years and years ago was very low. Being married at 12 and above was not surprising. As the world modernized, we realized that children cannot make good informed sexual decisions. The ages went up. Now, the trend is to get them down now that "anything goes" in this society.

I agree whole heartedly about the way parents are dressing their children. Our generation really started it by dissing dress codes for students. We were not allowed to wear jeans to school and we complained but when student teaching years ago, I saw the outcome of relaxing dress codes. Thank God when I did teach H.S. it was a Catholic school and the kids wore uniforms. The public school was ridiculous. Just go to an Abercrombie and Fitch. It will open your eyes. Kids are in there buying the raceist stuff with their parents credit cards. Or parents are gleefully buying the stuff with them.

I'm no prude. Anybody that knows me, knows that. I like looking at women like every other guy....but seeing little girls dress like hookers and guys dressing like prison homosexuals is getting distressing. Who to blame? Parents. Girls are dating much younger these days and always with older boys. Many 12 and 13 year olds are dating 16-21 year olds and the parents don't mind. Have any of you ever seen anybody checking ID's at movies? Don't strain your eyes. I could speak for hours on this stuff but have had my say. I don't like the way things are going, but be careful if you stand up and say anything. To decent gets you an immediate "somethingphobe" lable.

Packo

[BLUEHAWK]

"Surrounded? Hell, we're somethinphobes, we're supposed to be surrounded!"