{"id":18040,"date":"2012-11-15T13:43:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T18:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18040"},"modified":"2012-11-15T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T18:43:54","slug":"man-who-accused-elmo-puppeteer-kevin-clash-of-teen-sex-recants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18040","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Accused Elmo Puppeteer Kevin Clash Of Teen Sex Recants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 In a quick turnabout, a man who accused Elmo puppeteer <strong>Kevin Clash<\/strong> of having sex with him when he was a teenage boy now says they had a relationship as adults and it was consensual.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who has not identified himself, released his statement Tuesday through the Harrisburg, Pa., law firm Andreozzi &amp; Associates. It is not known why he made the accusation.<\/p>\n<p>Sesame Workshop, which produces \u201cSesame Street\u201d in New York, soon followed by saying, \u201cWe are happy that <strong>Kevin<\/strong> can move on from this unfortunate episode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clash<\/strong> also responded with a statement, saying he is \u201crelieved that this painful allegation has been put to rest.\u201d He had no further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 In a quick turnabout, a man who accused Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash of having sex with him when he was a teenage boy now says they had a relationship as adults and it was consensual. The man, who has not identified himself, released his statement Tuesday through the Harrisburg, Pa., law firm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}