Another Nickelodeon Creep
We’ve learned quite a bit the past few days about Brian Peck, the Nickelodeon drama coach who also was a closeted pedophile. Now, following the broadcast debut of the documentary series Quiet On The Set: The Dark Side of Kids’ TV, we’re learning that Peck wasn’t the only pedophile to use Nickelodeon as a prime place to pick up and molest kids.
Witness the case of Justin Smith, a Nickelodeon post-production editor, who tried to hook up with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl named Carly. Instead, he landed on an episode of Chris Hansen’s classic TV show To Catch A Predator. Smith eluded jail time, but was fired by Nickelodeon, and also landed on five years of probation. Ever since, he has had to register as a sex offender.
Here, Natly Denise discusses how child actors at Nickelodeon were systematically groomed so they could be exploited by fiends like Peck, Smith and Dan Schneider. It’s obvious why so many pedophiles gravitated toward Nickelodeon. But why didn’t the network do more to safeguard the children working there? You cannot look the other way, time and time again, and claim you were proactive in protecting these kids.
