Walt Disney Company was hit with a sexual-assault lawsuit Tuesday
The Walt Disney Company was served with a sexual-assault lawsuit Tuesday, by a woman who claimed she was spanked against her will and kissed inappropriately during a taping of the Disney Channel’s “Good Luck Charlie.”
The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by Plaintiff Kellie Rodriguez. Rodriguez states in her lawsuit that she attended a taping of the kids’ sitcom “Good Luck Charlie” with her children, her sister-in-law and her sister-in-law’s daughters in December of 2011. But instead of a wholesome, family-friendly experience, Rodriguez says that she was subjected to leering and sexual misconduct at the eyes, hands and mouth of crowd entertainer Ron Pearson.
Rodriguez claims that the ordeal began when she went to use the restroom and noticed Pearson “looking up and down Plaintiff’s body in a lewd manner,” the lawsuit says. Things went from “ewww” to worse when, according to Rodriguez, she was chosen by Pearson, along with two other audience members, to take the stage and participate in a contest that involved doing a “silly dance” to the Village People chestnut “YMCA.”
But what happened next was anything but silly, Rodriguez claims. According to suit, during the “silly dance,” Pearson began spanking Rodriguez while her back was turned to him.
“This unwarranted and unconsented spanking was relentless, and did not cease until Plaintiff physically turned around to stop it,” her lawsuit alleges. Rodriguez claims that after the contest was over Defendant Pearson asked her for a kiss on the cheek. “Being a good sport,” she says that she consented, but when she went in to give him the peck, Pearson “turned his face and kissed Plaintiff fully on the mouth.”
