A District Court judge directed Jones to stay out of the Hanover Mall, and barred him from dressing up as Santa Claus for the balance of the holiday season. According to a Hanover Police Department report, the elf told officers that “she walked by Santa who was in his chair at which point he reached up and pinched her buttocks.” Jones and the teenager work for a company that describes itself as “providing Santa Photographic services to the mall during the holiday season.”
Prior to the pinching, the woman told police, Jones told her, “I wish you were a few years older and I was younger.” A female coworker told police that she saw Jones “reach up in the area’s of [the victim’s] behind.” The witness said that while she was “unsure if his hand actually made contact” with the victim’s buttocks, the elf later reported “that Santa ‘pinched her butt.’” When officers approached Jones in “Santa’s changing room,” he declared, “I did not touch that girl.” Jones, who was not in his Santa costume, was then arrested and escorted to a police cruiser.
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During a subsequent recorded interview, Jones “was asked about the alleged pinching that occurred at the mall.” He explained that he was seated in his Santa chair when the teenager “walked by and brushed her buttocks against his hand.” Jones added that he then “pulled his hand away in an attempt to avoid contact.” Asked about the reported comment “I wish you were a few years older and I was younger,” Jones claimed that he “only stated that he wished he was young again so he could make different life choices and meant nothing else by it.” The teenage elf “took the conversation out of context,” added Jones.
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See the elfbang.com entry in Santa's Gmail account:
http://gizmodo.com/5101296/santa-claus-gmail-account-exposed
Lurker111
Heh! :)
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