Joseph Levall Parker, son of actor Anthony Ray Parker, has been fired from his job in an Auckland real estate office amid a probe into the actions of the “Roast Busters” group he is allegedly part of.
The group has boasted online about getting underage girls drunk, then having sex with them.
The firing comes after one member of the group made an anonymous apology on Facebook and two others went to talk to police, reported the News-Mail.
Joseph Parker was fired, his boss said. The boss said he acted in the “strongest possible fashion” after he learned of Parker’s association with the group.
Joseph’s brother Anthony Parker works in the same office.
The manager said Anthony would get the “opportunity to provide evidence he has had no part to play in this despicable behavior,” or he too would be sacked.
Anthony Ray Parker, the father, told TV3 that it was a “family matter.”
In a video circulating online, Joseph Levall Parker says: “Some of you guys think that this is a joke and stuff, but try, how about you try to get with the amount of girls that we do. It’s serious, it’s a job. We don’t do this for pleasure.”
“We don’t take time out of our daily lives to choose girls to roast,” Hales said in the video. “We have girls hitting us up, wanting to hang out with us.”
“They know what we like--they know what they’re in for,” Parker added.
The Roast Busters had been naming girls involved in videos posted online.
A girl who says she’s one of the victims told 3TV: “I just kept blacking out because I had drunken obviously too much. I got raped. I had sex with three guys at the same time.”
Detective Inspector Bruce Scott said that officials have “vigorously investigated” the group but there’s nothing more police can do unless one of the girls involved files an official complaint, reported the New Zealand Herald.
“We continue to look for evidence that will assist us in determining whether there has been any criminal offending and then once we’ve got this evidence we can make a determination on what our next move is,” he said.
“We continue to talk with girls involved in the group. The difficulty is that we don’t want to revictimise the girls, some of them don’t wish to engage with us and we can’t push them to talk to the police.”
Several vigilante groups have spring up and seek revenge on the Roast Busters for their alleged actions.
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