RAMAPO (WABC) -- Police are investigating a reported rape involving New York Giants Hall-of-Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor.
The Town of Ramapo Police Department is currently investigating the incident, which occurred early Thursday at the Holidome Hotel in Montebello.
The 51-year-old Taylor, who currently resides in Pembroke Pines, Florida, but has a home in New Jersey, is under arrest and awaiting formal charges.
Published reports say the victim was a 15-year-old girl and that Taylor will be charged with third-degree rape. There are also reports that the victim was beaten.
Additional information will be released later today at a press conference that is tentatively scheduled for sometime between 2 and 4 p.m. at the Town of Ramapo Town Hall.
Taylor has a long history of run-ins with the law, including an arrest for buying cocaine from undercover police officers.
Looks like "third degree rape" is "statutory rape", i.e. it's rape because she's underage, not because it was nonconsensual. Maximum sentence of 3-4 years.
Granted, as soon as you see "runaway" and "pimp" in the articles, the level of consent is probably not that high.
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Originally posted by StaggerLeeI've always defended LT when it came to all the drug charges, but this has got to be the end (if true). A fifteen year old? Really LT?
She was a prostitute too. A 51-year-old man paid to have sex with a 15-year-old girl. Guh.
What a man, what a man, what a man, what a mighty good man! What a mighty mighty good man! Bam Bam, you gonna get slammed! What a man, what a man, what a man, what a mighty good man! What a mighty mighty good man 'Cause LT is a mighty good man! What a man, what a man, what a man, what a mighty good man! What a mighty mighty good man! Bigelow, whatchu gonna do? What a man, what a man, what a man, what a mighty good man! What a mighty mighty good man When LT comes for you!
They were so right. So right.
I'd like to point out that LT is alive while Bam Bam Bigelow, a man who once heroically saved a family from a burning building, is not.
Originally posted by StaggerLeeI've always defended LT when it came to all the drug charges, but this has got to be the end (if true). A fifteen year old? Really LT?
She was a prostitute too. A 51-year-old man paid to have sex with a 15-year-old girl. Guh.
Reports now have her at 16, so it's totally okay now.
Well, the reports are saying that the teenage girl was abused as well. At the very least, she was sporting a very noticable black eye. So, 15 or 16, LT was still messing with jailbait and may had roughed her up to boot.
That being said, what does it say about me as a NY fan that I don't find this anywhere near as sad or dissappointing as I did when Doc Gooden was arrested for DUI with his kid in the car?
Originally posted by supersalvadoranWell, the reports are saying that the teenage girl was abused as well. At the very least, she was sporting a very noticable black eye. So, 15 or 16, LT was still messing with jailbait and may had roughed her up to boot.
She was supposedly roughed up by her pimp before meeting up with LT.
Originally posted by John OrquiolaI'd like to point out that LT is alive while Bam Bam Bigelow, a man who once heroically saved a family from a burning building, is not.
No one said life is fair.
I can't tell if you're implying that you wish LT was dead.
Originally posted by John OrquiolaI'd like to point out that LT is alive while Bam Bam Bigelow, a man who once heroically saved a family from a burning building, is not.
No one said life is fair.
I can't tell if you're implying that you wish LT was dead.
I don't think that's what he was attempting to imply. In any event, Bigelow did have several drugs, including toxic levels of cocaine, in his system when he died.
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Originally posted by The ThrillGrain-of-salt alert: Wikipedia sez that the age of consent in New York state is 17.
Therefore, a 16-year-old can't legally give consent, no matter what she says. That puts LT on the hook for 3rd-degree rape.
Uh-oh.
Originally posted by BroncolanchePublished reports say the victim was a 15-year-old girl and that Taylor will be charged with third-degree rape. There are also reports that the victim was beaten.
Uh-oh indeed!
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Latest I heard is that LT is claiming he never even had sex with her, which obviously would throw the rape charge out the window (but not any solicitation-type charges).
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