Scott Baio Wants Charges Filed Against Nicole Eggert

LOS ANGELES, CA — "Charles in Charge" star Scott Baio filed a police report Thursday Thursday against co-star Nicole Eggert for allegedly harassing him and his wife after she accused him of molesting her during the shows filming.

Los Angeles authorities already determined the statute of limitations had expired on Eggert's allegations. Now Baio wants her to face criminal charges.

"She called me a rapist and a child molester almost daily to every and any audience she could find," Baio said at a news conference. "And for months we have proven her story to be 100 percent false."

Baio also said that he has taken and passed five polygraph tests insisting that Eggert's claims are false. He said the alleged harassment included text messages and tweets directed at him and his wife.

In June, Los Angeles County prosecutors confirmed that they would not pursue a criminal case against Baio, cited the statute of limitations as the reason for declining to file a case against the 57-year-old actor, also known for his work on "Happy Days" and "Joanie Loves Chachi."

At the height of the MeToo movement, Eggert, now 46, went public with accusations against Baio, alleging he sexually assaulted her while the two appeared together on the show, on which she co-starred from 1987-90. According to Eggert, the sexual abuse began when she was as young as 14-years-old.

Appearing on "Megyn Kelly Today" in February, Eggert said Baio sexually abused her for years when she was between the ages of 14 to 16 and Baio was an adult. Eggert said she didn't speak out because she wasn't ready to tell her story, NBC reported.

Baio conceded that he had sexual intercourse with Eggert, but not until she was 18 years old. He said the encounter was consensual, insisting that Eggert seduced him.

On her Twitter page, Eggert stressed that prosecutors declined to pursue a case based solely on the statute of limitations, "never (because) of lack of evidence!!"

A young co-star on the show Alexander Polinsky also met with police to back up her allegations.

"During the first year of the show, I was 11 or 12, I observed Scott with our co-star Nicole (Eggert) on his lap backstage. I was so naive I innocently hopped on his lap, expecting to hear a story about Fonzie or `Happy Days.' ... Scott Baio was a hero to me. I was 11 years old. Instead of telling us a story, Scott immediately threw me off him and began angrily calling me `faggot' while Nicole laughed.

"I felt confusion, shame and then fear when I realized I had judged the situation wrong, and it was not innocent, it was sexual in nature," Polinsky said. "Scott Baio began a pattern of abuse that was unrelenting. Mr. Baio repeatedly told me about gay sex acts that he told me I would grow up to perform. I would protest and ask him to stop saying these things, but he said it was for my own good."

Polinsky said Baio would brag to him about his sexual conquests "with young girls and co-stars of the show" while also describing Polinsky as "unlovable, defective and branding me with the most vulgar words for homosexuals that exist."

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City News Service contributed to this report. Photo Credit: WOODLAND HILLS, CA - AUGUST 02: Scott Baio attends a news conference to discuss harassment allegations on August 2, 2018 in Woodland Hills, California. (by Jesse Grant/Getty Images)