Drake Bell has been charged with child endangerment after alleged inappropriate conduct with a minor
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Drake Bell is facing criminal charges for attempted endangering children and disseminating matter harmful to juveniles. The former Nickelodeon star was charged in Cuyahoga County, Ohio after allegedly sending sexually explicit messages to a 15-year-old girl he’d met online, before meeting her at a Cleveland concert in 2017, where he also engaged in inappropriate behavior, as reported by Fox 8. According to the teenager, she and Bell had a relationship for several years and he was allegedly messaging her for several months before they met in person, and she filed a police report against Bell in October 2018. Bell pleaded not guilty.
This isn’t the only time Bell has faced misconduct allegations. As Variety reported in 2020, Bell’s former girlfriend Melissa Lingafelt alleged that the Drake & Josh star had verbally and physically abused her throughout their relationship. She also alleged their relationship began when she was a minor. “When I started dating Drake, I was 16. I was home-schooled, I moved in with him, I was singing. It wasn’t until about a year when the verbal abuse started. And when I say verbal abuse, imagine the worst type of verbal abuse you could ever imagine, and that was what I got. It then turned into physical—hitting, throwing, everything,” she said in the video. Lingafelt also said, “I don’t event want to get into the underage girls thing. I mean I will, but I’m scared.” Through a representative, Bell denied the allegations.
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Damn it, we really can’t have nice things. At least the trailer for the iCarly reboot looks good?
I mean, there’s a reason he wasn’t invited to Josh’s wedding and why he has been living in Mexico until now.
He’s huge in Mexico.
I don’t get who it’s for. Like, it’ll have the wacky shenanigans because that’s what young kids like, but also they’re drinkin’ beer because adulting?
It’s… for people who grew up watching iCarly and like the characters, of which there are many? Not sure what would be hard to understand about that…
It’s for young adults who grew up with the old show. I guess it qualifies as a nostalgia cash grab, but what the heck, I’m always down for some Spencer shenanigans.
But without Jenette McCurdy, who will abuse poor Freddy for laughs?The only time I feel alive is when Freddy’s in pain.
His mom is part of it, so her?
My daughter loved iCarly, and if memory serves Freddy was getting pretty jacked up by the end there. I’m thinking one day he Hulks out and just starts beating folks down.
Man, Josh is really aging better in all fronts huh.
It’s all the alcohol and Disney.
Well, I never thought that it’d be so simple, but
I found a way, I found a way
Adult Folks.
When looking for intimate relationships, LEAVE. THE. KIDS. ALONE.It’s simple.
WHAT IF I JUST JACK OFF WATCHING CUTIES ON NETFLIX??
I hate children, so that’s a pretty easy rule to follow. Actually, I hate most human beings, so . . .
If he did anything inappropriate toward young Allison Scagliotti when she was on that show he should be executed
That kinda looks like a picture of Tom Holland.
Is Tom Holland looking more Dennis Quaid lately?
That’s fine.Start worrying if he starts sounding like Randy.
or if anyone does!
Seems he’s randy enough…
Rick Astley, but him current day.
I think he looks like the secret love child of Jeremy Davies and Billy Crudup.
He did also play Spider-Man a while ago…
There was a guy, name escapes me, who was a friend and business associate of Dan Schneider (the huy who made Drake & Josh, iCarly, etc), and who was convicted of a wide assortment of sexual crimes against a minor. It came out that he had repeatedly abused an underage male actor over a sustained period of time. The word on the street has always been that it was Drake Bell. Considering the belief that victims of abuse and sexual assault will often go on to abuse others….
I can’t be the only one who clicked this without noticing “Bell” in the headline.
HATE THE DRAKE!
Got to love the Sein!
Is he related to the LAKE?
LOVE THE LAKE! HATE THE DRAKE!Actually, I wondered the same thing. I don’t think so.
Ironically, his first TV appearance was in Seinfeld, the kid playing Frogger. Useless piece of info from me…
I definitely did not know that.
There is no useless information, only useless people.
criminal charges for attempted endangering children and disseminating matter harmful to juvenilesIt sounds like he was in the process of grooming her, but they didn’t engage physically yet. (Thankfully for her sake) Otherwise I would imagine he’d be charged with statutory rape. Also no CP charges either.Hopefully those charges are enough to land him in prison and the sex criminal registry. He is obviously a predator and needs to be stopped! Seems he already got away with it at least once.
An I reading this right that it took prosecutors three years to charge him after the police report?
I’m reading it more like he was in contact with this girl for three years after initially making contact with her.
Gotta be more specific if you tell a child you want to Slime them
He disseminated.
Walloping Websnappers!
I don’t remember him from the popular 2000’s sitcom, “& Josh.” Always thought it was weird how they had that ampersand in the title.
You know, I’ve always had the same question about “The Today Show with & Katie Couric.” Very weird!
A pedophile on the set of a Dan Schneider sitcom? That’s hard to believe,
I wonder if this means Disney can go back and put in the lines Josh Keaton recorded for Spider-Man in Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes that they dumped and replaced with Drake Bell? Because that was a poor choice at the time and looking even worse now.
Only for informational, journalism purposes, this write-up could have mentioned his age.
Giggiddy!
Who?