Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: It was a night of hard liquor and plush toys. 
  
 A new lawsuit says puppeteer Kevin Clash seduced his third underage victim in a posh Manhattan love nest decorated with furry Elmo dolls and celebrity photos. 
  
 Clash, 52, plied the 16-year-old aspiring model with liquor and sweet talk after they met on a gay chat line in 2000, alleged the lawsuit filed Tuesday. It was the third time Clash has been hit with underage sex allegations in two weeks. 
  
 Victim No. 3 dubbed Clash as “Mr. Tickler” in an unpublished manuscript recounting the night when the puppeteer met the virginal teen, said attorney Jeff Herman. 
  
 In addition to the Elmo dolls in the West Side apartment, there were photos of Elmo with stars like Beyonce and Tyra Banks — and Clash’s Emmy. 
  
 The pair met on a gay chat line — the same allegation made by the second victim to speak out against Clash, 52. 
  
 In a manuscript about their affair, the unidentified victim referred to the older Clash as “Mr. Tickler,” defense attorney Jeff Herman said after the suit was filed Tuesday. 
  
 “The game we played was father and son,” wrote Victim No. 3 in the unpublished manuscript. “When I arrived inside, he greeted me with a pleasant smile and a big bear hug.” 
  
 After hours of conversation and cocktails, things turned sexual. 
  
 “This was John's first sexual experience of this type,” says the lawsuit, which is seeking unspecified damages. 
  
 This is the third time in two weeks that Clash was hit with public allegations of sex with a minor. The fallout from the scandal led the Emmy award-winning puppeteer to resign from the show last week. 
  
 The newest accuser, now 29, claims he was an aspiring modeling from the South in 2000 when he met Clash on a gay chat line. 
  
 “John Doe,” who was staying with family friends in New Jersey at the time, visited Clash’s “gorgeous condo on the Upper West Side,” the plaintiff wrote in his manuscript. “I knew this man had coin.” 
  
 The drinks and seductive chatter continued until that the pair "engaged in sexual contact including oral sex,” the lawsuit charged. 
  
 The teen saw numerous Elmo dolls and photographs of the famous red puppet with celebrities including Beyonce and Tyra Banks, according to the lawsuit. 
  
 “Mr. Clash believes this lawsuit has no merit,” said a statement from the disgraced performer. 
  
 Clash went under the pseudonym “Craig” and claimed to be only 30 years old. 
  
 The lawsuit says Clash called John “incessantly” after their first meeting “to arrange meetings for sexual encounters.” 
  
 The pair resumed a sexual relationship when the accuser graduated high school and moved to New York to pursue his modeling career, after he turned 18. 
  
 It was only then that the accuser claims he did an Internet search of “Kevin Clash” and discovered that his lover was the famous puppeteer. 
  
 Last week, 24-year-old Cecil Singleton of Manhattan — also represented by Herman — filed a $5 million lawsuit, accusing Clash of sexual relations when he was 15. 
  
 The week prior, another young man, Sheldon Stephens, said he had intercourse with Clash when he was only 16 years old. 
  
 rgearty@nydailynews.com 
  
 Sign up for BREAKING NEWS Emails privacy policy Thanks for subscribing! ||||| Kevin Clash, the voice behind the iconic kids’ character Elmo, resigned last week amid allegations from two men saying they had sexual relationships with him when they were minors. 
  
 While Sesame Workshop accepted Clash’s resignation saying “the controversy surrounding Kevin's personal life has become a distraction that none of us want,” the fact that the initial accuser’s allegations were first brought to the network’s attention way back in June has prompted some to question whether appropriate action was taken in a timely fashion. 
  
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 “When working around children, my feeling would be to always exercise on the side of caution and protect the children first and foremost,” a source close to the scandal told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column, adding that letting Clash keep working during the network’s internal investigation was “below the standard.” 
  
 Sesame Workshop issued a statement on November 12 confirming that they had first received communications from Sheldon Stephens, then 23, in June saying he and Clash, 52, had had sex when Stephens was 16, below the age of consent in New York, where the relations had allegedly taken place. 
  
 “We took the allegation very seriously and took immediate action. We met with the accuser twice and had repeated communication with him,” Sesame Workshop said in the statement. “We met with Kevin, who denied the accusation. We also conducted a thorough investigation and found the allegation of underage conduct to be unsubstantiated. Although this was a personal relationship unrelated to the workplace, our investigation did reveal that Kevin exercised poor judgment and violated company policy regarding our Internet usage and he was disciplined.” 
  
 But how thorough was the investigation? Jeffrey Herman, a lawyer for Clash’s second accuser Cecil Singleton – who filed a $5 million lawsuit against the puppeteer, claiming they had sexual relations when he was 15 – told FOX411 he has since been contacted by two other men claiming to have had underage sexual relations with Clash. 
  
 Raising even more questions is Stephens’ shifting story. After the news of his relationship with Clash came out, he quickly he recanted his allegations of underage sex with Clash. Sesame Workshop then released a statement, declaring that “we are pleased that this matter has been brought to a close, and we are happy that Kevin can move on from this unfortunate episode.” But then Stephens reportedly did a second about-face, saying he was pressured into making a public retraction after being offered a reported $125,000. 
  
 A Sesame Workshop rep did not respond to a request for comment. However, a company insider told us that the organization was only made aware of one alleged relationship with a minor, and that the internal investigation took place during the summer before production began again in September. The source said Clash was not put on formal leave during the internal investigation. This is an issue that many find particularly perplexing given that his job is in children’s education. 
  
 “There is no question that as soon as there was serious, documented allegations Kevin Clash should have been removed from working around children,” said crisis management expert and CEO of 5WPR, Ronn Torossian. “That said, lawyers could have advised that Clash may have had a claim against ‘Sesame Street’ if the allegations were false.” 
  
 Stuart Slotnick, a partner with Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney P.C., said that although Sesame Workshop conducted their own investigation and found the claims to be unsubstantiated, the question of why they chose not to suspend Clash upon receipt of the initial claim is significant. 
  
 “This may be more of a crisis PR issue for ‘Sesame Street’ than a legal issue,” Slotnick said. “First, the relationships have taken place years ago, and it is not as if now the allegations are that ‘Sesame Street’ knew this was happening, and that they knew they had an employee that was a predator, and did nothing about the situation.” 
  
 And while many critics are concerned that Clash was allowed to continue working in children’s education despite his company’s knowledge of at least one complaint, New York-based attorney John Lynch stressed that this scenario called for the balancing of several interests, including the rights of the employee, potential harm to others, and protection of the brand’s reputation. 
  
 “It would be imprudent to take disciplinary action against the employee based on an accusation alone,” he explained. “Here the accusation was from the past, and did not involve any work-related activity, so ‘Sesame Street’ had the luxury of being able to investigate before taking disciplinary action.” 
  
 The $5 million federal lawsuit filed last week by the second accuser, Cecil Singleton, alleges that the plaintiff met Clash via a gay phone chat line when he was just 15 years old. Singleton’s lawyer said that on the initial chat Singleton told the famous puppeteer that he was 18 years of age, but during a proceeding dinner date admitted to being only 15. 
  
 According to the lawsuit, Clash “coerced or enticed Cecil Singleton to meet him for sexual encounters,” and that the puppeteer frequented this chat room “with the intent of persuading, inducing, coercing or enticing underage boys to meet him.” 
  
 The day before filing, Singleton wrote on his Facebook page: “I just allowed 1 fool to compel me into making 1 huge, stupid ass mistake. All I can do now is try to be efficient, and give the rest to god. Please 4give my overwhelming stupidity.” 
  
 Singleton’s attorneys have demanded a jury trial – which may shed even more light on Sesame Workshop’s initial investigation, and the nature of their disciplining him for improper Internet usage. A company rep would not elaborate on the nature of the usage for which Clash was disciplined. 
  
 Clash’s rep did not respond to a request for further comment. Clash and Stephens could not be reached directly for further comment. 
  
 Do you think Sesame Workshop handled the situation correctly? Tell us on the FOX411 Facebook page. 
  
 Danielle Jones-Wesley contributed to this report. ||||| Elmo Accuser #3 Sues He Plied Me with Booze 
  
 Elmo Accuser #3 Sues -- He Plied Me with Booze 
  
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 -- the former voice of-- used alcohol as a precursor to oral sex with an underage boy ... this according to a new lawsuit that has just been filed by a THIRD accuser.According to the lawsuit , filed in federal court in Manhattan and obtained by TMZ, the alleged victim met Clash on a gay phone chat line when he was 16 and Clash was approximately 40.The accuser -- now 28 -- says he was in NYC pursuing modeling opportunities when Clash invited him to his swanky NYC apartment, which was strewn with Elmo dolls and photos of Elmo with famous people, includingandDuring the encounter, the accuser -- who refers to himself as John Doe -- claims Clash plied him with alcohol and "groomed him," and then engaged in sexual contact that included "oral sex and digital penetration of John's anus."The accuser says Clash stayed in touch with him after the sexual encounter, although no further sexual contact occurred until he became an adult.The accuser is suing for unspecified damages.As you know, Clash resigned fromhours after the second accuser filed suit. |||||
Student:
Yet another accuser has stepped forward alleging former Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash had sex with him when the accuser was underage. John Doe, accuser No. 3, says he was 16 in 2000 when he met Clash on a gay chat line and ended up at the older man's apartment engaging in "some sexual activity." Doe is now filing a lawsuit, and is represented by the same attorney who represents accuser No. 2, Cecil Singleton. He's also writing a book about the experience, the New York Daily News reports. TMZ has details from the new lawsuit, which claims Clash gave Doe alcohol and that the sexual activity involved "oral sex and digital penetration of John's anus." It also claims that Clash's apartment was full of Elmo memorabilia, including dolls, and suggests that the two had sexual contact again after Doe was an adult. In the wake of the growing sex scandal, some are starting to question how Sesame Workshop handled it, sources close to the situation tell Fox News. "When working around children, my feeling would be to always exercise on the side of caution and protect the children first and foremost," says one source.