7 Children's Characters Arrested For Crimes Of Passion

Years of having the football pulled out from under him may have worn out old Charlie Brown. The voice actor who played Peanuts' bald pessimist, Peter Robbins, recently plead guilty to stalking his ex-girlfriend … and the plastic surgeon who enhanced said ex's great pumpkins. Good grief indeed.

Sometimes you end up being Ryan Gosling, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears or Justin Timberlake when you appear on The Mickey Mouse Club. And sometimes you have to get a day job. For Darlene Faye Gillespie it was the latter. She and her husband were later convicted in a security fraud scheme and of lying to cover it up.

And the pain keeps coming. Sesame Street's Elmo is a household name, his puppeteer, Kevin Clash, may soon be. For the wrong reasons. Some people believe that they saw cracks in Clash's façade in the documentary Becoming Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey. However, since that time, as many as five individuals have accused the Muppets talent of sexual contact while they were minors.

And just as awful but far more local. A Christian-based puppet show called Joy Junction featured a character named Marty. Marty, voiced by Ronald William Brown, was a center for morality and forthrightness. His puppeteer, however, plead guilty to charges of possessing child pornography. Federal agents also alleged that Brown plotted to kidnap a child and chatted online about murdering and eating kids.

The granddaddy of them all. A high-voiced, gray tuxedo-wearing spaz captured the imaginations of American's youth in the late '80s and early '90s; then he was captured masturbating in a Florida porn theater.

Pee-Wee Herman (a character played by actor Paul Reubens) got off (heh) with community service and was the butt of two decades of progressively less funny jokes.

For some reason, we thought we needed more Pippi Longstocking back in the late '80s. Hence we created the film The New Adventures Of Pippi Longstocking. The titular star, Tami Erin, became embroiled in a semi-domestic disturbance situation in which her male roommate accused her of battery. The roommate allegedly sported no visible injuries and you suppose that we'll have to wait for the legal process to know what really happened.

And now the awful stuff. One-time Red Ranger Skyler Deleon was convicted of murdering a couple named Thomas and Jackie Hawks. The former Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger acted as if he was going to purchase their yacht dubbed "Well Deserved." Once at sea, Deleon abducted the couple, forced them to sign over the ownership of the boat and then threw them into the ocean to drown. In a bit of Mickey and Mallory, Deleon's wife Jennifer was sentenced to two life terms in prison for her role in orchestrating the murder.