Former Cake Drummer Arrested For Child Abuse

Peter McNeal – left, drumming for Cake, and right, his mugshot

Peter McNeal, ex-drummer to alternative rock band Cake, is now facing charges of child molestation.

According to Rolling Stone, the percussionist, who was part of Cake from 2001 to 2004, and more recently was a session drummer for Norah Jones, was arrested in Los Angeles last month and released on $250,000 bail. On Friday, McNeal showed up in court to hear the single felony count against him of “oral copulation and sexual penetration of a child under the age of 10”.

It’s reported that the LAPD have suspicion that this wasn’t the first crime against children that the 45-year-old has committed, and are urging the public to speak out if they know anything. In 2009 he was arrested for a separate charge of ‘attempted molestation’ of a young girl, but the status of the case is unknown.

McNeal is set to be arraigned on February 20th, and his trial dates will be given at that time.

This is disgusting, horrible news, and my hope, as I’m sure everyone’s would be, is that this isn’t true. If it is, he deserves to be charged to the fullest extent of the law, and in my opinion, be left in a cage, draped in meat, with starving tigers. No tolerance. If you prey on the weak, that’s what you should get.

This is off topic but what happened to Cake? I know they’re still around but nothing can compare to 1998’s Prolonging the Magic. Now that was an amazing album, but I saw them once live and they were b-o-r-i-n-g. No stage presence at all.

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