Cameras were rolling when police arrested "America's Best Dance Crew" judge Shane Sparks this morning for alleged child molestation.
FOX 11 was there when Sparks, who was also a choreographer on "So You Think You Can Dance," was cuffed at his North Hollywood home and hauled off to Van Nuys jail -- where he's being held on $590,000 bail.
As TMZ first reported, Sparks is charged with 8 acts of alleged molestation with an underage girl.
Celebrity Justice12/18/2009 5:10 PM PST BY TMZ STAFF
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#3-Glad Im White
LOL......
YEAH....We wouldn't wanna step on all those WHITE PEOPLE'S TOES that kill their wives or Kids, or kidnap somebody else's kids....
WHAT WOULD NANCY GRACE DO WITHOUT ALL YOU PWT'S (PO WHITE TRASH)!?!?!?!
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CAN ONE DAY GO BY WITH SOME WHITE PERSON "ATTEMPTING" TO KILL THEIR WIFE AND "THINKING" THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH IT!?!?!?
OR BUMP-OFF THEIR OWN KID, AND HIDE EM IN THE BUSHES!?!?!?!
AND CAN THEY PLEASE FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE OTHER THAN FLORIDA!!!!
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At $590,000 bail, he won't be able to post and skip to France like Roman Polansky did! Thirty years later and he's probably sipping tea in his mansion.
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Does it matter at all that at the time of these alleged crimes, Shane was 20 and his victim was 14 or 15? I get that it's illegal but I wonder if there would be any complaint at all if he weren't famous?
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Sparks was 20 and his victim was 10 years or more YOUNGER than him. NIce.
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I always felt something was off about him, but these are alleged crimes, doesn't mean they are true, secondly, why would she wait so long to file charges???
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WOW......SERIOUSLY???? I didn't even know anything about this one. DAMN, DAMN AND DAMN!!
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I am completely shocked and find this very hard to believe. I mean...I thought all these artsy-fartsy dancing/choreographers dudes were spermgarglers...and here one turns up that was interested in girls. If he had stuck with the lispers he'd be free as a bird tonight.
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Can one day go by with out a bunch of idiots, white and black, making everything about race?? I think that's the better question.
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wAIT?? The court papers say between 1995-1997 the victim was 14yrs old..OK the other count was in like 2005-2006?? isn't the victim over 21 by then?... and why wasn't all this filed in 1994-1995? why wait til now?? just a question.
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