‘Attracted to little boys, in the sickest way’: eight former child actors accuse producer Gary Goddard of sexual abuse

More former child actors are coming forward to accuse producer Gary Goddard of sexual misconduct following claims made by ER actor Anthony Edwards.

In a Los Angeles Times report published Wednesday, eight former child actors claim they were sexually harassed by the producer.

Though Goddard was often viewed as a mentor, former actors Bret Nighman and Mark Driscoll claim they had to endure unwanted sexual advances from him when they were children.

Driscoll alleges Goddard repeatedly sexually abused him over the course of three years. Nighman claims Goddard attempted to molest him on four occasions when he was in his teens and later rubbed his crotch.

Linus Huffman, who acted in Goddard’s Oliver! when he was 13, claims the producer used mentoring as a means to touch him.

“He pulled me aside and put his hands on my legs and went, ‘I’m very proud of you,’ and was going towards my crotch area,” Huffman told the Los Angeles Times.

Edwards and three other people told the paper that Scott Drnavich, another former actor who died in 1977, told them he was sexually assaulted by Goddard.