A JUDGE has determined that a child sexual assault case against Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler may proceed.
However, claims of abuse made by the Julia Misley, formerly Julia Holcomb, in three American states – Oregon, Washington and Massachusetts – have been dismissed by Patricia A Young due to age of consent laws in those jurisdictions.
It is the allegation made by Misley in California that will proceed to trial. In dismissing the non-California claims, Young barred them from being filed again.
The suit was first filed in 2022, with allegations dating to 1973, when Holcomb was in high school and Tyler was 25. Tyler’s counsel asked that the case be dismissed because he lived with Holcomb for most of their relationship in Boston, where the age of consent is 16.
At a December 18 hearing, Young said: “Even if it’s legal in Massachusetts, California has an interest in saying, ‘OK, that’s fine, but it’s illegal here. Don’t come within our borders and do it here.
“California absolutely has an interest in people coming into our state, committing a crime here, such as childhood sexual abuse, and then leaving again.”
In his own memoir, Does The Noise In My Head Bother You?, Tyler wrote: “I was so in love, I almost took a teen bride. I went and slept at her parents’ house for a couple of nights and her parents fell in love with me, signed papers over for me to have custody, so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of state.”
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