Elijah Wood has claimed that Hollywood is in the grip of a child sexual abuse scandal. The actor who played Frodo Baggins in the lord of the rings said that Hollywood has been been gripped by cases of sexual abuse similar to the Jimmy Savile scandal in Britain — and that the child abuse is ‘probably still happening’. He told the Sunday Times that there were “a lot of vipers in this industry…there is darkness in the underbelly”. He also said that his mother had protected him from abuse when he became an actor at the age of eight years old but said other young actors had been “preyed upon”. The Mail Online reports: Shocking allegations that top Hollywood figures have been protecting child abusers have circulated widely in recent years. Several industry figures have been convicted following claims of sex abuse and former child actors – including The Goonies actor Corey Feldman, 44 – claimed he was ‘surrounded’ by molesters when he was a teenager. Anne Henry, co-founder of Bizparentz – a group to help young actors – said that Tinseltown is currently sheltering around ‘100 active abusers’. Wood, who stars in his new film The Trust told The Sunday Times [...]