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I suspect most the people parroting the claim aren't parroting Nick.
That might be true here on the Farm, but I suspect most people have only heard of Monty because of Nick (or Metakur). If you look at the comments on Elissa Clips' YouTube channel, references to Monty all seem to be either quoting Nick verbatim, or they're Farmers and don't believe a word Nick says.
I'd never heard of Monty until this lawsuit, and I initially took the claims of his being a paedophile at face value -- because of the number of people repeating them in this thread, and because -- for a long time, they tended to go unchallenged. It was only when I sought out Umbrella Man and found that it bore no resemblance to the claims that were being made about it that I started to be a bit more sceptical about them.
Which isn't to say he isn't creepy and weird. He's definitely those things in large measure. But I couldn't find any evidence of his admitting to taking nude pics of kids. The closest I could find was him saying whenever he takes photos, he has to have a contract. For the contract to be legal, the model has to be 18 or over. The only cases when this isn't true, and he's photographing under-18's, he needs to have parents signing the consent form. But there's nowhere could I find him admitting that he's photographed under-18's nude. I think people extrapolated that from the statements he made.
And I would imagine that Rekieta has been searching for such evidence far harder than I have, and he hasn't turned up any evidence either. If he had done, it'd blow Monty's case right out of the water. And given that he wants this case dismissed via summary judgement, I'm guessing he would have shown that evidence in his most recent hearing. It would have sent Monty and Schneider running home with their tails between their legs.
Why would you sit on it at this stage? From Rekieta's point of view, the best thing that could happen would be for Randazza's bills to stop ballooning as soon as possible. If you were a kid and you'd had creepy Monty taking your pics while you were in the nude, you'd be a young adult by now. Surely you'd want to stick it to the crazy old pervert and earn some money by helping Nick out. Yet nobody's come forward.
It seems like an urban legend at this point. A friend of a friend had Monty take their nude pics when they were a kid. But when you try to locate that friend of a friend, nobody seems to know quite who they are.