Shane Sparks was arrested Friday morning and charged with eight counts of child molestation. Sparks is a judge on MTV's America's Best Dance Crew and a choreographer on So You Think You Can Dance.
Sparks committed "lewd acts on a child" in 1994. The criminal complaint documents eight incidents of abuse. Sparks allegedly had a relationship with a female that included acts of oral sex and other acts "with the intent of arousing, appealing to, and gratifying the lust, passions, and sexual desires of the defendant, who was at least 10 years older than [the victim]."
Steve Meister, Sparks' lawyer, contends that these accusations are false and that Sparks is an innocent man. Meister states that the accusation is "bogus" and that it "reeks of opportunism and exploitation."
If convicted, Sparks will have to contribute his fingerprints and DNA to a national database of sex offenders.
