Original Blog Entry: Lawrence Taylor NFL's Greatest Defensive Player Arrested

truesee — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:06:41 GMT

Lawrence Taylor rape arrest: Ex-Giant accused of raping, beating teen girl in NY hotel

Corky Siemaszko

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Originally Published:Thursday, May 6th 2010, 10:47 AM

Updated: Thursday, May 6th 2010, 11:32 AM

Havner/APLawrence Taylor was reportedly arrested in an upstate NY rape

case.

Messerschmidt/GettyTaylor, who won two Super Bowls with the Giants, is widely considered one of the greatest defensive players in NFL history. arrested Thursday in Rockland County in connection with the reported rape of a 15-year-old girl, sources said.

Taylor allegedly beat and sexually assaulted the girl and has been charged with third-degree rape, the Journal News was reporting.

He will be arraigned Thursday afternoon.

The alleged assault happened at a hotel in Montebello, N.Y., earlier Thursday.

Taylor was jailed a short time later, the Ramapo Police Department said in a brief statement.

Details were scarce, but the town's police chief said more information would be provided at a 3 p.m. press conference.

Taylor, 51, played for the Giants from 1981 to 1993 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999.

He also competed last year in ABC's Dancing with the Stars.

The former Giants linebacker had a minor run-in with the law last November when he was arrested for leaving the scene of a traffic accident outside Miami.

Taylor has also been arrested several times on drug charges since hanging up his cleats in 1993, but has reportedly been living clean and sober since 1998.

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