Pirates Felipe Vazquez Faces 21 New Felony Costs
Pittsburgh Pirates reduction pitcher Felipe Vazquez was in a choose’s chambers on Tuesday (November 19) for his second preliminary listening to on prices of sexual assault in opposition to a 13-year-old woman.
Based on the DailyMail.com, Vazquez is now going through 21 new counts of kid intercourse prices starting from little one pornography to illegal conduct with a minor.
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The brand new prices are thought-about third diploma felonies, which might be punished by as a lot as seven years in jail and a $15,000 superb every.
Vazquez was arrested in September in Pennsylvania after authorities in Florida (the place the sufferer now lives) started investigating him upon a criticism filed by the sufferer’s mom.
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Vazquez admitted to police he drove to fulfill the woman in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, in 2017 when she was 13. He says he tried to have intercourse along with her, however instructed police he then left as a result of he wanted to attend a sport that evening.
After his arrest in September, Vazquez’s Pennsylvania dwelling was searched and police seized an iPhone and Apple MacBook Professional, resulting in the invention of seven pictures and three movies of a woman in “varied phases of nudity,” based on police.
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A timeline of social media messages, texts and different digital communication reveals Vazquez and the 13-year-old woman had been involved for 3 years. Although police consider there was just one occasion of improper bodily contact between Vazquez and the woman.
Vazquez is at the moment on administrative depart from Main League Baseball, pending the end result of this matter.