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Reese's Theme Park Photog Charged
A shutterbug who put a damper on Reese Witherspoon's trip to the so-called Happiest Place on Earth last month will now pay the price.
Photographer Todd K. Wallace was charged Friday with child endangerment and multiple counts of battery stemming from a Sept. 2 incident at Disney's California Adventure theme park when he allegedly whacked a 5-year-old child with his camera and shoved another child out of the way in order to snap shots of Witherspoon and her two children.
The paparazzo was charged with battering the child's mother, who is a friend of Witherspoon's, as well as two Disney employees who were attempting to deter him from approaching the Legally Blonde star, who was at the park celebrating her daughter's sixth birthday.
Police said that Wallace became verbally and physically abusive when the group declined to be photographed and began using language inappropriate for young ears.
He was initially arrested for using his body against the Disney tour guide assigned to the group and pushing another Disney employee.
The encounter left several of the children in the group in tears, police said.
Witherspoon's lawyer, Blair Berk, told the Los Angeles Times that tabloids that buy shots taken by the paparazzi should realize that "battering and endangering a child to get a picture for their magazines is criminal and not business as usual."
It's not the first time that Wallace has run afoul of the law. In 1993, he was convicted of second-degree burglary and receiving goods by fraud and subsequently served four years in prison, according to state corrections records.
The photographer was due back in court on Wednesday, Assistant City Attorney Patrick Ahle said.
Meanwhile, scary run-ins with the paparazzi are nothing new for Witherspoon.
Last April, the actress filed a police report after she was swarmed by members of the paparazzi who she claimed boxed in her car and prevented her from entering the gates of the Brentwood home she shares with her children and hubby Ryan Phillippe.
"There seems to be no repercussions for the behavior," Witherspoon told the New York Times shortly after the incident. "It's starting to feel chaotic and lawless."
In August, prosecutors decided against filing charges against the photographers involved in the incident, citing insufficient evidence.
"I have no doubt Ms. Witherspoon was besieged by the paparazzi that day. But through witnesses and videotapes, we weren't able to corroborate the incident Ms. Witherspoon described," Detective Jeff Dunn, head of the Los Angeles Police Department's Threat Management Unit, told the Times.
Witherspoon's most recent big-screen outing Just Like Heaven opened atop the box office last month, taking in $16.4 million. The actress will next be seen in the biopic Walk the Line, playing June Carter opposite Joaquin Phoenix's Johnny Cash. The film opens Nov. 18.
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