Category Archive for : ‘SPORTS FIGURE’

May 21, 2021
Ryan Gaydos
Fox News

Two-time MLB All-Star Felipe Vazquez was convicted of statutory sexual assault, sexual abuse of children and child pornography and other charges in Pennsylvania on Thursday.
Vazquez, who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 2016 until his arrest in 2019, was found guilty in a Westmoreland County courtroom on 15 counts, according to ESPN. He was found not guilty on 10 counts of unlawful contact or communication with a minor.

He was initially charged in September 2019 with statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors

January 14, 2021
Christine Breenan
USA Today

Just hours before the 2021 U.S. Figure Skating Championships were set to begin in Las Vegas, the attorney for a former skater said the sport’s national governing body agreed to pay $1.45 million to settle the skater’s lawsuit accusing the organization of being negligent in its duty to protect young athletes from sexual abuse.

Adam Schmidt, 36, a former skating student of suspended Olympic coach Richard Callaghan, alleged that he suffered “numerous sexual assaults” by the well-known coach when he trained with him as a teenager in

June 17, 2020
Lee Brown
NY POST

 An English soccer star has admitted having sex with a 14-year-old girl and sharing child porn on Snapchat, according to reports.

Former Arsenal winger Tyrell Robinson, 22, pleaded guilty Tuesday to engaging in sexual activity with a child, as well as making and distributing an indecent image of a child, the BBC said.

He was ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register before he was allowed to leave Bradford Crown Court on bail, the broadcaster said. 

“All options will be open to the judge who deals with your case, and

December 19, 2019
Louis Casiano
Fox News

Adrien Broner, the four-time world boxing champion whose recent legal troubles have overshadowed his ring exploits, was ordered Tuesday to pay $830,000 to a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her at a Cleveland nightclub.

The judgment was awarded after Broner, who goes by “The Problem,” failed to defend himself in the lawsuit.

The woman accused him of kissing her against her will in 2018 as she tried to free herself. The lawsuit said the two didn’t know each other and that one of Broner’s friends pulled

October 29, 2019
Ken Curtis
WTVY

Smyrna, TN– Former Houston Academy and University of Alabama basketball standout Jim Farmer faces human trafficking charges in Tennessee. He is among 16 men accused of seeking sex from minors.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said those arrests resulted from a two day investigation in Rutherford County.
TBI posted decoy advertisements online to identify people trying to engage in commercial sex with minors.
“Low and behold, many of these men showed up to our operation. Wanting to have sex with a 16-year old, they were met with some of our

October 19, 2019
Alan Dawson
Business Insider
 
 

Conor McGregor is reportedly being investigated by Irish police over a second sexual assault in Dublin, the New York Times reports citing anonymous “people familiar with the matter.”

A spokesperson for the former UFC champion denies the allegation.

“Conor McGregor is frequently the subject of rumors,” a publicist for McGregor told The Times. “He emphatically denies any report accusing him of sexual assault.”

A woman in her 20s reportedly said she was assaulted last week near a Dublin pub while in a parked vehicle, The Times says. The police have not