https://heraldpublicist.com/x-factor-and-disney-star-ricky-garcia-accuses-former-manager-of-rape-beginning-at-age-12/

Ricky, now 20, has accused Joby Harte of sexual assault and rape which started on the age of 12.

In paperwork filed by legal professional Ben Meiselas of Geragos and Geragos, and seen by TMZ and DailyMail.com, Garcia claims that Harte and his firm Scorching Rock Media used the ‘well-worn paedophile playbook of grooming and seduction’ and alleges that Harte would repeatedly get him ‘black out drunk’ just for Ricky to get up within the morning subsequent to him bare.

‘Defendant Harte, the ringleader, employed the well-worn paedophile playbook of grooming and seduction. He targeted an economically and emotionally vulnerable pre-teen and his parents. He then groomed and seduced the child’s mom to have her lay down her defences and provides him unfettered entry to her son, making her an unwitting confederate to his depravity,’ the paperwork reportedly learn.

Garcia, who starred in Disney’s Finest Associates Every time, additionally alleges that Harte – who claims on his Wiki web page to have helped launch ITV present Pop Idol and labored on Strictly Come Dancing – groomed him right into a ‘sexual plaything that could be passed around his friends in the business’ together with producer Nils Larsen, who categorically denies the claims within the ‘malicious prosecution’- and ex-APA agent Tyler Grasham.

Garcia is suing Harte, Grasham, Larsen, Scorching Rock Media, Cohen/Thomas Administration and its companions Sheri Andersen Thomas and Paul Cohen, in addition to APA.

Ricky was 14 when he auditioned for The X Issue US season three; he was eradicated through the boot camp spherical however Simon Cowell requested him to return together with Emery Kelly, 16, and teamed them with Jon Klaasen to type a trio he named Without end in Your Thoughts.

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Joby has been the warm-up for the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP and ABC hit television show Dancing with the Stars

Joby Harte and Russell Brand were in talks to release "Chugga Chugga (All Night)" a novelty song through Simon Cowell's record label Syco.

In 2009 Harte created the company Hot Rock Media, Inc.Perv as an entertainment empire. In 2011 Stephanie Wayland became VP, Talent & Literary of the company based in Beverly Hills, California. Hot Rock Media acquired offices at the NBC Burbank Studios and has partnered with talent managers Paul Cohen and Sheri Anderson Thomas of Cohen Thomas Management. The company currently represents 22 clients including actors and singers in film and television.

In 2011 he worked on the Nickelodeon' show Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures and How to Rock and ' the GSN show, Baggage. In 2012 he's worked for OWN on Are You Normal America? for Disney Channel on A.N.T. Farmand Nickelodeon, reworking of the 90's game show Figure It Out

Joby Is the host of the HUB Network TV Show Majors & Minors which premiered on September 23, 2011.