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Yep: Anti-Semitic "Elmo" Ran Cambodian Porn Site, "Welcome To The Rape Camp"
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Christopher Robbins
Published Jun 28, 2012
Modified Jun 28, 2012
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When we saw the crazy, anti-Semitic Central Park Elmo being led away in cuffs we thought, "Ha-ha New York, you're full of shoe-licking weirdos" and then went about our business of being cool and indifferent about witnessing bizarre human behavior on a daily basis. But this is New York, meaning that of course this Elmo has a despicable, depraved past. The Times caught up with the Elmo, Adam Sandler (yep), and finds that he once worked for the Girl Scouts and ran a pornography site in Cambodia named "Welcome to the Rape Camp."
That site was actually the focus of an academic paper published in the Journal of Sexual Aggression by Donna Hughes, a professor at the University of Rhode Island. According to Hughes' paper, the site featured a "live bondage sex show."
The women on the web site were blindfolded, gagged and/or bound with ropes while being used in sex acts; some had clothespins clipped to their breasts. Viewers were encouraged to “humiliate these Asian sex slaves to your hearts content." Expanded service was to feature live interactive Internet transmission of bondage sex shows from Cambodia with pay-per-view access in which customers could relay requests for torture that would be fulfilled within seconds. The fees were US$15 for 10 minutes, US$40 for 30 minutes, and US$75 for 60 minutes.
Hughes showed the Times a series of "chilling emails" that Sandler allegedly sent her while she was writing the article, saying he had sex with young girls in Camboda and that the girls shown on the site and paid them $20 a performance and were not harmed. Here's what Sandler told the AP in 1999 when asked if his site promoted violence against women.
It might promote violence against women in the United States, but I say, ‘Good.’ I hate those bitches. They’re out of line and that’s one of the reasons I want to do this … I’m going through a divorce right now…I hate American women.
Sandler was "quickly deported" from Cambodia in 2000. "I had a sex scandal," he tells the Times. "I did run a porn site in Cambodia." He changed his first name to Adam, and found work at a temp agency (he holds a bachelors from the University of Oregon) which placed him at the Girl Scouts headquarters. After losing that job, Sandler says, "I saw how these Elmo guys were working in Times Square," albeit illegally. So he bought a $300 costume and started working for tips. On Saturday he made $200.
After his arrest doctors told Sandler he was "a little paranoid," but, “Obviously, they saw I was not a threat to myself or anybody. I got some good sleep.” Obviously! Doesn't he see a potential conflict between his current profession of hugging children with his past of, you know, sexually exploiting young women? "It's not illegal."
Michael Wilson's article ends with this, because you can literally hear the atonal strings reach a fever pitch as your brain explodes "NO!":
On Tuesday, a mother approached the costumed Mr. Sandler, pushing a sleeping toddler in a stroller. “Will you be here tomorrow?” she asked. “She loves Elmo.”
Here is a photo the Times took of Central Park Elmo Adam Sandler that renders the above text obsolete.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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