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LT arrested for raping a 15 yr old girl...

SUFFERN, N.Y. -- Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor was arrested early Thursday after being accused of raping a 15-year-old girl at a Montebello, N.Y., hotel, police said.

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Taylor, who has a history of drug abuse and runs-in with the law, is being charged with third-degree rape, which involves having intercourse with a minor, the Journal News reported on its website. Ramapo police said Taylor has yet to be formally charged.

Ramapo authorities told the Journal News that the alleged victim was also beaten at the hotel and treated at a hospital.

"She was a runaway since March and there was a pimp involved," Ramapo supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence told the newspaper. "She got punched in the face. We're not sure who did it."

Police said they would hold a news conference Thursday afternoon. They did not immediately respond to questions about the circumstances of the arrest and whether Taylor, 51, had a lawyer.

Taylor was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999 and competed in ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" last year. He had a highly publicized struggle with drug addiction and has had multiple legal issues in retirement.

A quick, fierce and athletic linebacker who redefined his position, Taylor anchored the Giants' defense and led New York to Super Bowls titles in 1987 and 1991. He was selected to the NFL's 75th Anniversary All-Time Team.

A 10-time Pro Bowler, he was the NFL Most Valuable Player in 1986 and the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1981, 1982 and 1986. He recorded 132.5 sacks, which doesn't included the 9.5 sacks in 1981 when the statistic wasn't official.

In 2001, Taylor was convicted of possessing drug paraphernalia in New Jersey. The conviction stemmed from the September 1998 discovery in a hotel room of a butane torch and other materials commonly used to smoke crack.

In 1996 and 1997, he was arrested in South Carolina and Florida on drug charges. In those cases, he either admitted his guilt or agreed to enter a pretrial intervention program.

In 2000, he drew five years of federal probation for filing false tax returns and for tax evasion. Last November he was charged in Florida with leaving the scene of an accident.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

I was really hoping Tomlinson got caught with PEDs but knew something horrible like this was going to pop up

Looking back, it seems he was on a destructive path and maybe you could have predicted something like this would happen, but a 15 yr old and a pimp? Come on LT, go on match.com and hook up with those cougars. While I'm sure the story has yet to unfold, this may be the end of Lawrence Taylor...

I don't support sex with a young girl but this prostitute who probably consented to sex could have been mistaken by Taylor as older. Have you seen 16 year olds these days? You can't tell the different between 16 and 18 anymore. Hell, you can't even tell between 16 and 20. I'm not giving him a pass. What he did is still disgraceful, but I have a hard time believing she didn't willfully have sex with him. I'm assuming they're caling it rape because she's a minor.

Remember...this isnt L.T forcing some girl into an act against her will --- this is basically statutory rape based obviously on her status as a minor.

A good lawyer should be able to minimize his culpability --- that he was fooled or lied to about her age.

However this shakes out, L.T needs to grow the fukk up and stop embarrassing himself like this. Its time for a little tough love. SMH at his decision making.

Childs2Dudley wrote:I don't support sex with a young girl but this prostitute who probably consented to sex could have been mistaken by Taylor as older. Have you seen 16 year olds these days? You can't tell the different between 16 and 18 anymore. Hell, you can't even tell between 16 and 20. I'm not giving him a pass. What he did is still disgraceful, but I have a hard time believing she didn't willfully have sex with him. I'm assuming they're caling it rape because she's a minor.

i read that she was taken there against her will by the pimp... she was a runaway & she called her relative on the way to the hotel & that's how the cops were able to track her down to his hotel room.

LT was my hero but there's no getting out of this one... i don't care if she was consenting or not, she's not hold enough to consent to anything at that age... LT should know better than to get himself into these types of situations after his checkered run ins with the law over the years.

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