May 19, 2015

Popular California Acting Coach Charged With Kidnapping, Sex Offenses



Cameron Thor, Popular Acting Coach

[From article]
At 2 p.m. on June 3, 2014, three months after that Starbucks meeting, detectives from the L.A. County Sheriff's Department arrested Thor at an apartment in Woodland Hills. Soon after Thor's arrest, Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Simone Shay filed 14 felony charges against him, including kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault. Thor was booked and released from jail on $2.6 million bail (later reduced to $1 million). In January of this year, during an emotional preliminary hearing, L.A. Superior Court Judge Alan Schneider threw out one of two aggravated sexual assault charges but ruled that Thor would have to face a jury on the remaining counts, which include kidnapping with the intent to commit other crimes and multiple counts of lewd acts against a child.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/a-beloved-acting-coach-a-789893

A Beloved Acting Coach, a Teen Girl and Sexual Assault Charges: Cameron Thor's Accuser Breaks Silence
by Scott Johnson
4/20/2015 9:00am PDT
In 2009, one of Hollywood's best-known teachers drove a 13-year-old girl into the Malibu hills, where, she says, a horrific sexual assault occurred. Five years later, police recorded their private conversations and made an arrest. Now, on the eve of his criminal trial, the accuser, Jordyn Ladell, tells her story.

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