"" A 62-year-old mall Santa
Claus was arrested Saturday after allegedly
pinching the buttocks of an 18-year-old
woman who worked with him as an elf
photographer, police report.
Herbert Jones was arraigned this morning in a
Massachusetts court on an indecent assault
and battery charge. Free on $1000 bail, Jones
is next due in court on
Christmas Eve on the
felony count. A District
Court judge directed Jones,
pictured in the adjacent
mug shot, 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.”
The teen said that after the pinching she
reported the incident to her manager, who
later told her that “Santa wanted to speak
with her.” When she subsequently met with
Jones, he began to yell at her, saying “I would
never have done something like that!”
Prior to the pinching, the woman told cops,
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 cops 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.
During a subsequent recorded interview, Jones
“was asked about the alleged pinching that
occurred at the mall today.” 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.""
Merry Christmas linky.

I read about that earlier. Guess santa needs to lay off the egg nog!

That poor elf lol

Lucky he only comes once a year haha Do you ever have any Good Postive News?

He got arrested? Seriously....wasnt negative to me....was more humorous than anything else. I DO have a site I read that lists nothing but uplifting stories...thought abt posting one a day...might start.

I second Papi's motion. * Women would like to read... Something different *:)

Guy has a one track mind haha

1st of all, youre wrong, Ive posted many positives threads....you just only, evidently, are drawn to ones you think are negative. 2nd...are your hands broke? Can you not post one you consider positive? If so, I suggest you do it instead of complaining abt what others do post.

LMAO I swear this is at least onea these a year!

then post a positive story of your own it said bad santa in the title this is the forums not the oprah channel