In 1988, Victor Salva made a movie.
That same year, he was convicted of recording himself molesting the 12-year-old boy who starred in the movie between takes.
That same year, the boy, Nathan Forrest Winters, had to spend a month after filming wrapped up dubbing the movie, essentially re-living every take.
The dubbing was done at the home of Francis Ford Coppola, who went on to direct other movies starring unknown 12-year-old boys, like The Secret Garden and The Black Stallion.
Francis Ford Coppola told this hard-working, sexually-abused 12 year old boy, "You'll never work in Hollywood again". He never did.
The Sundance Film Festival premiered the film the next year, and it went to theaters the year after that.
Francis Ford Coppola said, in 2006, "You have to remember, while this was a tragedy, that the difference in age between Victor and the boy was very small -- Victor was practically a child himself.”
Victor Salva was 29 years old when he molested that 12 year old.
Coppola has continued to support Salva financially and professionally throughout the years since, and has achieved substantial success in life and business.
The point of this thread is just to work through my incredulous anger at the life and career of a CHILD being so callously disrupted, and at the lives and careers of so many adults, institutions, and companies making a profit with no disruption whatsoever.