Celebrity choreographer on Fox’s popular reality dance competition “So You Think You Can Dance” and MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” judge, Shane Sparks, was arrested Friday morning at his Hollywood home on felony charges of child molestation.
Shane, whose government name is Melvin Sparks, was charged with six felony counts of committing a lewd act on a child under the age 14, incidents which allegedly occurred between 1994 and 1997. He was also charged with two counts of oral copulation of a child under the age 16, which is said to have occured between 1995 and 1997. The report concludes that the acts were “with the intent of arousing, appealing to, and gratifying the lust, passions and sexual desires of the said defendant and the said child.”
KTTV Fox News 11 in Los Angeles reported that the Emmy nominated dancer/choreographer, who is now 40 years old, is said to have met the alleged victim, who is rumored to be 10 years his junior, at Millennium Dance Complex in Los Angeles where the child was one of Shane’s students.
He is currently being held on $590,000 bail. No comment has been made on the arrest from Shane or any representatives on his behalf.
