Acting coach Cameron Thor was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.
A jury on Wednesday found Los Angeles acting coach and actor, Cameron Thor guilty of committing a lewd act on a minor after a week of testimony.
According to reports, the jury returned their decision after 2 days of deliberation.
Thor threw his head back when the verdict was read and then leaned forward, placing his head on the table. His son Ace and his wife AliceCarter broke into tears. On the other side of the courtroom, Thor’s accuser, 20-year-old Jordyn Ladell and her family also wept.
Thor then turned to his family and whispered “I love you” twice, once to his son and once to his wife. When deputies approached to handcuff him, Thor let out an audible moan and shook his head. He will be taken to an L.A. County jail where he will remain until sentencing. Judge Martin L. Herscovitz declined to offer bail. [Source]
Cameron Thor faces 3 to 13 years in a state prison, a sentence which include an “enhancement for special circumstances.”
Thor was charged with one count of performing a lewd act on a child under the age of 14, a felony. Los Angeles District Attorney had originally filed 14 charges against Thor, including kidnapping and sexual assault but decided to drop 13 of the 14 charges during the course of several pre-trial motions.
Cameron Thor was once a Hollywood working actor. Working on several big budget movies in the 1990s including a small role in ‘Jurassic Park’ (he played Lewis Dodgson, a villain who tries to steal dinosaur embroys) he made a name for himself in Tinseltown. Now, 55, he became a go-to acting coach in Los Angeles, California. With his acting studio, the Carter Thor Studio, hundreds of aspiring actors lined up to take acting classes from this working actor. The studio’s website brags about Sharon Stone and David Fincher giving “vibrant talks” there and a long list of A-list acting students including Cameron Diaz, Helen Hunt, Drew Carey, Faye Dunaway, Courteney Cox and Madonna.
However, this acting coach had a dark secret. On June 3, 2014 Los Angeles police filed 14 felony charges against him, including kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault and is now facing charges which include kidnapping with the intent to commit other crimes and multiple counts of lewd acts against child. Many of his victims of sexual violence remained quit for years before every coming forward and some never being able to speak openly about what happened to them.
