Russia’s largest modelling school is in Novosibirsk. The visitors still take a few photos and recommend she go on a diet. “Marina is a little overweight.” At 93 centimetres, her hips are too wide. The 17-year-old barely has the time to take two steps before a cutting remark welcomes her into the world of modelling, even if pronounced under the guise of humour. Three Centimetres Too WideĪnna invites Marina Korotkova to step forward. It’s an opportunity to follow both an American and French dream, a chance to escape the daily drudgery of life in Siberia. Everyone knows Hababou holds the key to a possible career abroad. The presence of this visitor from Paris ramps up the pressure. Anna and Stephane stop in every large city of the region, holding a casting call that is open to all.Ībout 50 teen girls in black undergarments and stiletto heels greet Anna and Stephane at every stop. Hababou says it’s the best way for him to find new prospects ahead of his competition. He represents the prestigious Marilyn agency in Paris. Her travelling companion, Stephane Hababou, watches the photos of would-be models scroll across the screen. Four times a year she crosses her native region by train searching for the next top models, the ones who will one day strut the catwalks of Paris or New York. She discovers new talents for the Noah Models agency in St. They are the result, she says, of years of mixed marriages by citizens from different republics of the former Soviet Union.Īnna is a scout. She wants to show her international visitor the many charms of Siberian beauties. "As a mother, I tend to blame myself, thinking what if I had just asked the question, what if I could have found out somehow that this is going on," she said.Anna Yuzhakova takes her laptop computer with her to the restaurant car. She said her daughter is in public school now and doing better. Jane pulled her daughter out of the school in October. "I think they definitely tried to cover up the incidents," said Jane. They insist student sex has nothing to do with the closure. They said the school is closing because the director is leaving for personal reasons and no teacher wants the job.
School officials still haven't gone on camera, but told me off camera that they believe there were only two incidents involving inappropriate touching among the kids. The school itself is set to close on Friday. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Carson Station says the story is prompting it to ask questions of various state agencies to see if any crimes were committed. "It went down in the classroom, it went down in the bathroom, and it went down out on the playground," said McCarthy.Īfter seeing that story, attorney Greg Owens said more people started asking to join his lawsuit against the school and the church, so he is no longer planning to file it Monday. "The way that she explained it, it was kind of like it was an everyday om pulling the pants down to exposing themselves to, you know, trying to get somebody to put their mouth on the privates," said Jane.Įyewitness News first broke this story on Friday when Richard McCarthy told us exclusively that his son often received oral sex at the school. Jane's daughter said it wasn't an isolated incident. The First Lutheran Church of Carson School was cited by the California Department of Social Services for a sexual incident between kids. She provided us documents from the County of Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services showing the case was closed as inconclusive. Jane said investigators found no evidence of child abuse at her home. "I said, 'Where did you see this? How did you know that this was something to do? 'She said, 'I saw another little girl do it.' I said, 'Well, where?' 'Here at school.' 'When?' 'During nap time,'" the mother recalled.
The woman, who asked to be identified only as Jane Doe, said her 5-year-old daughter was caught by a teacher inside a bathroom at school giving oral sex to a 4-year-old boy. For three, how often something happened," the mother said in an exclusive interview with Eyewitness News.