This should not have cost Ellefson his job. That statement is dumb as the woman, and I mean woman, made a statement about what happened shortly after the initial story broke.
"Yes, those video calls did happen, but I was the one to initiate it and never was I underage, I was always a consenting adult. Nothing inappropriate ever happened before that. It was all consensual, I'm not a victim and I have not been groomed in the slightest as I was the one to initiate it," the woman stated.
2 consenting adults doing something. Yes, he's married. Did he kill someone, rape someone, etc? What really bothers me is looking at all of the comments on his firing and seeing the term pedo being thrown around. Dude had a non-contact sexual encounter with another adult and is having his life and career affected in a bad way.
It's just not right. Who wants to bet that Mustaine now has all of the bass redone on the new album?