Choreographer Shane Sparks, who was a judge on MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew,’ was ordered today to stand trial on eight sex-related counts involving an underage girl in the 1990s.

Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Jessica Silvers found sufficient evidence to require Sparks — whose full name is Melvin Shane Sparks — to proceed to trial on six counts of lewd act on a child and two counts of oral copulation of a person under 16.

The criminal complaint, filed in December, alleged that the crimes occurred between July 1994 and April 1997.

Sparks, now 41, was arrested Dec. 18 at his Studio City home and released the following day on bail.

He is due back in Van Nuys Superior Court for arraignment Nov. 15.

from www.unrealityshout.com – The former So You Think You Can Dance choreographer, Shane Sparks, is due to stand trail on charges of child molestation according to Radaronline.

41 year old Shane will reportedly deny the charges, however the presiding Judge Jessica P. Silvers of the Van Nuys Superior Court issued a statement to say she’d “found sufficient evidence to proceed to trial.”

Sparks, who’s also a judge on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew, is charged with six counts of a lewd act on a child, and two counts of oral copulation of a person under 16.

The complainant claims that the crimes took place between July 1994 and April 1997.

However, Spark’s attorney, Steve Meister, has previously said his client had been “unfairly accused” and added that the alleged victim didn’t raise the issue until after his client “became famous.”

Sparks is due back in Van Nuys Superior Court for an arraignment hearing on November 15th.