Ferris Bueller's Day Off star Jeffrey Jones allegedly likes to play dress-up with kids...even when it's not Halloween.
The problem for the erstwhile Ed Rooney, however, is that the kids are not his own--and one of those kids is now suing him for sexual abuse.
The actor was hit with a civil suit Monday in Los Angeles by the same boy who was at the center of the 2002 kiddie-porn criminal case against Jones.
Jones was originally arrested in November 2002 following a yearlong child pornography sweep that also netted Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens in an unrelated case.
While misdemeanor charges against Reubens were later dropped, Jones' felony case landed the actor in serious hot water.
Jones, 58, was busted with some racy pics of the teen boy. The actor initially pleaded not guilty to the crime, but, facing a potential lengthy prison sentence, Jones copped a plea. He was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to register as a sex offender and undergo counseling.
"This concludes a really painful chapter in my life. I'm sorry that this incident was allowed to occur. Such an event has never happened before, and it will never happen again," he said after the sentencing.
Unfortunately for the actor, that "really painful chapter" hasn't ended quite yet. In July, he was arrested in Florida after moving to the state and failing to register as a sex offender.
And this week he learned he must again face the sex rap as his accuser, now an adult at 19, filed a suit in Los Angeles Superior Court claiming Jones had touched his genitals and forced him to pose nude and touch himself for the camera when he was 14 years old.
Jones is also accused of giving the boy various costumes to wear, including cowboy, sailor and Indian outfits. (Excerpts of the lawsuit are online at The Smoking Gun.)
The accuser, whose name has not been revealed, is also suing for emotional distress, saying the incident affected his own sex life and left him severely depressed and suicidal.
Prosecutors had never charged Jones for any physical contact, and this is the first time such allegations have surfaced.
The actor's attorney, meanwhile, has called the new charges "blatantly false" and says the accuser is after money.
Jones, whose credit list includes Beetlejuice, Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow, most recently starred in HBO's Old West series Deadwood.