John Moyer of Pennsylvania was convicted today of groping Minnie Mouse at Walt Disney World.
Moyer, 60, of Pennsylvania, was convicted of misdemeanor battery for the June incident this morning.
Judge Wayne Shoemaker imposed the sentence this morning.
“The verdict reinforces the fact that this type of behavior is not acceptable,” said Walt Disney World spokeswoman Zoraya Suarez. Disney officials also banned Moyer from entering any of the company’s resorts, Suarez said.
According to the sentence, Moyer has to write a letter of apology to the victim, Brittney Duncan McGoldrick. He also is under supervised probation for 180 days, must complete 50 hours of community service within four months, pay $1,000 in court costs and submit to a mental evaluation with treatment, if necessary.
Before sentencing, Moyer’s adult son spoke on his behalf.
“He’s a good man,” Emory Moyer said. “He’s a nice guy.”
Emory Moyer also described his father as a man who would never touch a woman inappropriately.
Later, Moyer spoke briefly to the judge.
“I am innocent, I am not guilty of the crimes that I’ve been charged with,” Moyer said.
Moyer has no criminal history and has never received a speeding ticket, he said. This was his first offense.
First offense? Maybe for grabbing Minnie by the tail, but this is not the first time Moyer has led a mouse astray. Intrepid Threedonia reporters discovered this evidence of Mr. Moyer’s other mousecapade — below the fold:
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This isn’t as isolated a problem as one might think. When the MGM Grand first opened in Vegas, there was a theme park as part of the resort. The park had “walk around” cartoon characters and they were consistently being hit by children and even on one occasion one of the characters was thrown to the ground and “humped” by a drunk college aged punk who thought it really cute to do in a family oriented venue, while his buddies snapped pictures. Needless to say, he was arrested and hauled off by the police for assault. Film at 11 was used as testimony for the prosecution.
Did “humped” put me into awaiting mod. mode?
Everyone is a nice guy who would never do what they did. Printing these sorts of comments is like printing, “John Smith, who breathes oxygen. . .”
This reminds me of the most un-intentionally funny episode of CSI I ever saw. That and the time my crew chief followed Snow White all around Disneyland posing for multiple pictures with her.
It involved “Furries” (people who “enjoy” dressing up in animal outfits). A furry got into a fight with his girlfriend and then drove off into the hills in a huff. He then had car trouble got out of his car (still in the animal suit) was shot by a hunter. He then staggered into the road wounded where he was hit by a car and killed.
Gil Grissom figured all of this out in the span of one hour thanks to science.
@ Outlaw… CSI would be a 30-minute show if they’d just pray sincerely.
Jessica Rabbit I can see, but Minnie Mouse?
Science is wonderful.
They could combine it with Ghost Whisperer and Medium and it would take it maybe a minute and a half.
Outlaw—that’s just about the only episode of CSI I’ve seen. It was both silly and creepy.
Tony—I’m wondering how he knew there was a woman in there. I wouldn’t have assumed that.
Mike, the character that was assaulted at the MGM was in fact a man. Young college student himself with that as a summer job.