The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a total of 8 former child stars have come forward stating director Gary Goddard, 62, raped and molested them. The first to make the claim against Goddard is famous Hollywood star, Anthony Edwards, who appeared in the hit 1980s film "Top Gun."

Former child actors Mark Driscoll and Bret Nighman also made the same claim. Goddard's victims also state former child actor Scott Drnavich, who died in 1997, was also molested by the director. Some of the victims have remained anonymous.

Goddard was also sued with fellow pedophile, Bryan Singer, 52, for sexually molesting an underage boy in Britain (Michael Egan III). Singer has two additional lawsuits for raping and molesting underage boys.

Some of Singer and Goddard's friends and co-workers in Hollywood fled to Spain and were arrested by police for having a massive number of child porn photos and videos in their possession, as well as illegal weapons in a rented mansion.

For years actors such as Corey Feldman and the late Corey Haim, spoke of pedophile rings in Hollywood, comprised of stars, behind the scenes employees and executives, who sexually pass around preteen and teenage boys. Feldman and Haim were molested in Hollywood when they were 11-years-old.

Vulture.com stated, "According to Costa and the men, some parents were concerned about Goddard’s behavior on tour. He allegedly insisted on being the only adult to bunk with the young male actors, Costa said.

During a 1990 reunion of the Santa Barbara theater alums, many men recounted being abused by Goddard, according to the Times. Driscoll told the paper the men went to Goddard’s house and confronted him, and Goddard apologized."

Eight Former Child Actors Accuse Hollywood Producer Gary Goddard of Sexual Abuse

Eight men have told the Los Angeles Times they were sexually abused by Gary Goddard, the Hollywood producer and theme-park designer. Actor Anthony Edwards, former actors Mark Driscoll, and Bret Nighman, and four other men who have asked to remain anonymous said Goddard abused them on Disneyland rides, during overnight stops during a statewide theater tour, and backstage in the 1970s.

A eighth man, Linus Huffman, said Goddard attempted to use mentoring as a way to inappropriately touch him. The men claim that Scott Drnavich, a former actor who died in 1997, also said he was sexually assaulted by Goddard as a boy. Barbara Costa, the woman hired to care for the production’s child actors on tour, told the Times that she was suspicious of Goddard’s behavior, but that her higher-ups declined to take action. Goddard, through a publicist, has denied all wrongdoing.

In an online essay and subsequent Times interview, Edwards said Goddard molested him during the Santa Barbara–based California Youth Theatre’s production of “Peter Pan,” directed and choreographed by Goddard. Nighman recalled fighting Goddard off one night and watching him molest Edwards instead. Multiple men on the tour and friends of Drnavich’s as an adult say that before his death he described being assaulted by Goddard multiple times. His mother told the Times he never told her about any abuse.

According to Costa and the men, some parents were concerned about Goddard’s behavior on tour. He allegedly insisted on being the only adult to bunk with the young male actors, Costa said. During a 1990 reunion of the Santa Barbara theater alums, many men recounted being abused by Goddard, according to the Times. Driscoll told the paper the men went to Goddard’s house and confronted him, and Goddard apologized...

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