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Home Video Shows Alleged Fondling By 'Tigger' Character

Posted: 3:51 pm EDT April 15, 2004Updated: 8:19 am EDT April 16, 2004

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VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Home video shows what one woman claims happened to her at Disney World, that a man dressed in a Tigger costume became a little too friendly. The woman in that video told Channel 9 she realized what happened after seeing reports of one suspect's arrest. (Read Previous Report)

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Although it's unlikely that it's the same man, investigators are taking more than 30 complaints very seriously.

The woman and her family were too uncomfortable with the incident to comment on camera, but they say the home video should speak for itself.

With all of the laughs and smiles and picture-perfect moments at Disney's Toon Town exhibit, it's easy to get caught up in the moment. That's just what happened to a Vero Beach woman vacationing with her family.

She declined to talk on camera, but told her husband, who was shooting the home video, that she thought it was him when someone approached her from behind, reached around and grabbed her breast. But from the video, you can see it was actually someone in character as Tigger.

"I think we're right at about 30 complaints at this point," says Jim Solomons, Orange County Sheriff's Office.

The woman's husband says she thought it was strange at the time, but says it didn't dawn on her what had happened until similar complaints appeared in news reports.

The only question is, who was inside the costume? Her incident happened December 2002, while the Disney employee who was arrested for fondling a mother and daughter only started working in the park late last year.

"One of the things we need to point out to our victims in these cases is that the gentleman in question here wasn't in character during the time of some of these occurrences," explains Solomons.

That may mean this is bigger than 30 complaints and one suspect.

"Anything's possible. That's why we do an investigation," says Solomons.

The woman tells us she has no intentions of filing a complaint. She says she provided Channel 9 the video to show that some of these complaints could be true.

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