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Smogon Mod banned for sexually harassing young girl (possible cover-up from other mods)

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Smogon's (the largest website for Competitive Pokemon) community manager has been banned for (supposedly) sexually harassing an underaged girl. The rest of the staff is handling it oddly and removing any public discussion of this.

A bit of background/required knowledge:
Smogon has a hidden forum called "The Inside Scoop" which is only open to those who have significantly contributed to the website. I do not have access to this, so everything that comes from there are leaks.
Pokemon Showdown is the battle simulator. It is where most of the people who use Smogon rulesets play at.
Chaos is the owner of Smogon.
Haunter was the community manager and head of moderation. He was in charge of appointing and managing the rest of the staff.
Goddess Briyella was some minor moderator. Late last month, he was banned for engaging in sexual conversations with minors. Also he was apparently trading child porn on an IRC channel or something?
At some point, in a thread Haunter and Stellar (another member of the upper staff) asked people not to send evidence against Briyella to the police, but to them.
Chaos did not like this and deleted those posts. Then someone apparently started an investigation against Haunter in response.
All that happened inside the hidden forum. There was nothing but silence publicly.
Now, a few days ago, Haunter was banned for similar reasons. There was, again, complete silence publicly. Moderators of Pokemon Showdown are muting anyone who talks about it. The moderators also appear to be deleting most discussion about this on the forums.
Stellar also instructed the rest of staff to not specifically mention that he was targeting underaged girls if directly asked.
Now, a pastebin has surfaced in which Haunter claims that he was framed.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/36qkr1/smogons_the_largest_website_for_competitive/

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Normally I wouldn't consider forum drama to be news but this is really fucked up!

There are imgur links in the reddit thread's OP that show some of the scandals that the thread mentions.
 
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Shocking as it is, as another major Pokémon forum I don't think it's appropriate for us to host a discussion on this.
 
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