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Drake Bell Explains Why He Pleaded Guilty to Felony Child Endangerment

Drake Bell explains why he pleaded guilty to felony child endangerment in 2021.

“I was being investigated and that was really difficult on my family, and thankfully through 18 months of subpoenaing my social media and phones and computers and witnesses and everything, it turned out that most of what was being accused of me wasn’t true,” he said. Bell’s plea was widely covered at the time, but news of his guilty conviction has resurfaced since an episode of the docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV focused on the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of Brian Peck, a dialogue coach on The Amanda Show. During sentencing, Cuyahoga County Judge Timothy McCormick acknowledged he’d heard “a lot of serious and disturbing allegations” during the hearing and said he “can’t lose focus on what was pled to.” And he chastised Bell for leveraging his position in the entertainment industry to speak with a teenager.

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