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A theory about his accusations


He is either:
- Telling the truth
- Lying
- has severe mental problems, believes what he's saying, but none of it really happened.

I tend to believe the third option.

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What makes you think that none of it really happened?

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Well, in the case of what he says happened to Haim, he is merely repeating a story that was told to him. That makes it hearsay. He never witnessed any of it. Recently he said that Charlie Sheen raped him out in the open and used Cisco oil. I found that odd - Was Sheen just carrying the oil around with him just in case he would need it? Did anyone see what happened?

Looking at his body language and the way he talks I feel he isn't mentally stable. His accusations are a little "out there" too, especially with the conspiracy bit.

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I think that he is mentally unstable, but I do think that something or things did happen to both him and Haim.

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"Was Sheen just carrying the oil around with him just in case he would need it?"

i'd say if you can't see Sheen doing this, you don't know Charlie. Crisco is at least easily obtainable from any corner store, it makes it more plausible he'd have it IMO.

Or Corey could just have it out for Sheen and made up the Crisco part. I could see either being true. But if he's out for Sheen, then for what? If rape then we're back at square one. Turning him out? Something equivalent?

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I wouldn't say he's lying, given all the stuff that's come out about Weinstein, Cosby, Savile, Spacey and other various people in the industry it's not too far fetched to believe that these two young boys were raped/molested and past around in Hollywood.

As for the Charlie Sheen stuff....considering Corey Feldman had been molested by various men...why wouldn't he believe Haim confiding in him about being raped by a man on set?

Plus Haim himself said he was raped during an argument on the Two Coreys.

Also, who wouldn't have some mental problems after experiencing all that? I'm surprised he's not weirder.

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One thing to remember is that neither Corey went thru any sort of cross-examination. The press has never asked any hard questions - He's just made these comments on TMZ like productions.

Then there's the infomercial that's being called a documentary.

Spacey never denied Rapp's comments but was cleared of everything else as the others were cross examined. Same thing with Weinstein and Cosby - a trial found them guilty.

With Feldman, a huge difference is there was no trial, let alone a police investigation.

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Weinstein and Cosby only got in serious trouble when a collective came together as a group to accuse them. Corey is just one person. THAT is the difference.

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I disagree. The police investigated first with those two. Then other victims came forward and their claims were investigated before a trial happened. Feldman is trying to conduct a media trial.

When an accusation like this is made, especially with children (as Feldman was at the time), the police do an investigation. They ask serious questions, unlike the media. Something called due process is followed (which the media doesn't do) and if there is sufficient evidence the person is charged, indicted and put on trial. The prosecution and defence put forth their case and a verdict is determined - again something the media is fairly loose with.

I wonder who Feldman hired to do his documentary (infomercial) - High school students? They seemed fairly incompetent.

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First of all, the Cosby and Weinstein scenarios are very different. Cosby paid his victim off (legally) in 2005. Some knew about it, most didn't. In October 2014 Hannibal Buress started joking about more accusations because of his beef with Cosby, and it went viral. That plus the articles written in November about more accusers catapulted it into the spotlight. Neither of those things were based on ongoing investigations. Investigations weren't until a month later. You can claim the collective got bigger during the investigations, but you cannot claim the investigations caused the collective.

With Weinstein, the media and law enforcement were more open to taking accusations seriously even though there were less accusers. This was due to the increased power of the #metoo movement post-Cosby.

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So how exactly does negate the very basic fact that these two cases went thru the legal system and ended with a conviction?

All Feldman has at this point are accusations and hearsay. If his accusations go thru the legal system and not a trial by media, I will change my mind based on the outcome.

Or perhaps you're ok with being tried by the media?

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Why would it negate that fact? And why would that be a fact that requires negating? And where did I say that Feldman even has a case?

All I said was that Corey is different because he is just one person.

You are making illogical leaps here that you should not be making. I don't know if he's telling the truth. You don't know if he's telling the truth. Nobody knows if he's telling the truth. We won't know unless more people come forward. That is the only way to get beyond the statute of limitations.

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You said one thing right - the truth has yet to come out, and it may never come out.

You are making illogical leaps here that you should not be making.


Really!? I am not the one making illogical leaps here. What is wrong with calling a person's claims hearsay until they are proven in court? That's precisely what his claims are - hearsay. Feldman's claims may be true. Or not. I am skeptical of his claims. We should give the people the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.

Why does the quantity of people making accusations matter? The claims against Cosby and Weinstein were just allegations - until they were convicted.

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I've said everything right. You cannot prove otherwise and would be too cowardly to even try.

When I said Corey is just one person, you assumed I believed what he said was true. That was the illogical step.

Since the statute of limitations had run on Cosby's crimes from the 80s and further back, how was it possible for him to get convicted? You'll have to do some research for this one.

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Ok, so you've made it clear you don't believe him yet. Me - I don't have definitive proof he's lying. I also don't count the number (and I don't think yo do either) of alleged victims as proof of innocence or guilt.

I'm skeptical because I don't believe he's gone to the police yet. He's created a whole "conspiracy theory" thing about Hollywood being full of pedophiles. Are there bad people in Hollywood? Yes. But full of pedophiles? No.

As for Cosby, some of the accusations are too old to prosecute. It's unfortunate, as some countries such as Canada there isn't a statute of limitations on sexual crimes.
However, in Wikipedia it says "Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault and sentenced to three to ten years in prison in September 2018.[2][3][4]"
He was convicted. That was extremely simple to find. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby

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You're still missing the point. I know he was convicted, and I know why. I wanted you to find out for yourself why he was convicted when the statute of limitations had run. You keep talking about Feldman and police investigations when you should already know by now that the statute of limitations prevents those things.

What that means is there can be no investigation into Charlie Sheen raping Corey Haim. He is in the clear EVEN if he did it. They aren't going to investigate something that they cannot prosecute.

So the fact remains, the only way Charlie Sheen gets in trouble is if more people come forward with more stuff. With just Corey Feldman after him, Sheen is investigation proof.

Got it yet? Are we learning anything?

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I knew all that. You didn't.

Since the statute of limitations had run on Cosby's crimes from the 80s and further back, how was it possible for him to get convicted?


You're just a pompous ignorant twit.

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The thing is that previously Feldman had hinted at (and later named) Marty Weiss and Jon Grissom being child molesters. These guys were ultimately convicted, so it's too easy to just dismiss this claim about Charlie Sheen. He has not done himself any favours, though, by acting vague about it throughout the years and basically looking for hush money. It does not seem he's genuinely looking for justice.

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Given the level of sleaze that Hollywood has always had, I don't find it difficult to believe that Corey is telling the truth. He just started to speak out at a time when people weren't prepared to listen. That flashpoint/tipping point hadn't happened yet.

This is a town that bought secret abortions for rising starlets. It's a town that fed its own to the fires during the blacklisting years. It's a town that, when you flick on a light, you find roaches like Weinstein scuttling for the fridge.

I'd place my best bet on telling the truth. If not, I'd say that it's somewhere between the truth and that he has mental health problems. I'd still guess it was based in some fact and then distorted, though, not that none of it really happened.

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Unfortunately, we live in a world where he could be completely making it all up, or every word of it is true, or it's something in the middle. There are predatory monsters, and their are opportunistic leaches, and there are people living in a reality of their own making. Who really knows.

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I'd say he was most likely abused as was Haim maybe not by Sheen but it's not a stretch that in Hollywood, especially during that time that child stars were molested by those who were supposed to be looking out for them.

I think he has mental issues as well due to the abuse, the drugs and just Hollyweird in general.

That said, the way he is going about this, like some kind of reality TV show where he is charging people to watch his story unfold, that is odd to me and desperate. Like he is hoping for another chance at reviving his career. But then the #metoo mob also used it as a promotional tool.

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I felt the same way about it too as first. However the more I thought about it whatever he has to do.

For those that remember Corey has been talking about this shit since the early 90s, about the same time he came out of rehab. He was being discredited as a junkie fresh out of rehab. I believe him, but I would agree I don't like the way he is telling his story. But if it works then more power to him.

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I think the first and the 3rd are true. Basically, this guy was secretly violated and traumatized when he was a child and teenage actor by guys who were in power and he's been trying to get the word out, but nobody will listen to him, even today. They treat him like someone trying to grab attention, rather than a guy who is fighting to get some justice, as well as someone who doesn't want any other child actors to suffer what he did.

Can you really blame him for having mental issues after what he went through as a kid? There's a reason good parents work as hard as they can to protect their kids from crap like that.

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2 and three are the same.

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The difference between 2 & 3 is that 2 is intentional and 3 isn't.

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