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Mariano Rivera, who spent her entire MLB career with New York Yankees, has been added as an accused in a trial. Rivera’s wife, Clara Rivera, was also listed as an defendant in a changed sexual abuse dragon filed by a named girl and her mother.
USA Today Sports achieved a copy of the new complaint after it was filed with Westchester County Court April 25.
The original trial filed in January claimed that the young girl fell victim to an older person during events attached to the church that Rivera’s founded.
The church is located in Westchester County, New York, and Clara was listed as a senior pastor.
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Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera delivers comments during the tape cut to the Mariano Rivera Foundation Mentorship program at Ignite Life Center in Gainesville Fla. June 2, 2021. (Brad McCenny/The Gainesville Sun via Imag Content Services, LLC)
Riveras was not named defendant in the initial filing. Instead, the church, Refuge of Hope and Brook View Rye, LLC was listed as defendant. The company with limited liability shows the address of Riveras’ former home, which they sold in 2022.
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In the previous filing, Riveras was accused of having taken insufficient measures to protect the girl who was listed as Jane Doe in the complaint. The complaint claims that an assault occurred in “approximately summer 2018” in a New York Home Riveras’ owned at the time.
According to the trial, the alleged abuse occurred at a barbecue to which children who attended the church were invited. However, the parents of the participating children did not receive invitations according to the suit.
Former New York Yankees Pitcher and Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera with his wife Clara Rivera at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, Ny, August 17, 2019. (Wendell Cruz/USA Today Sports)
The changed suit’s details were in accordance with the initial filing. In both archives, Riveras allegedly ignored the girl’s claims of sexual abuse and “isolated and scared” her in an attempt to make sure she remained quiet about the alleged incident.
“Instead of taking sufficient steps to end the sexual abuse of Jane A Doe, isolated Riveras every separately and scared Jane A Doe to be silent about her abuse to avoid causing problems for refugio and Ignite Life Summer Internship,” the trial states.
“To avoid the potential scandal of sexual abuse of children in his programs and otherwise protects defendants over everything else, Riveras assured in their capacity as agents and/or employees of defendants that Mother was a doe that Jane a Doe was safe and in no danger in the Ignite Life Center, despite actual or constructive knowledge that Jane was vulnerable to further actions of further actions.”
The former New York Yankee Mariano Rivera, a National Baseball Hall of Fame inductor in 2019, recognizes the crowd as he stands next to his Hall of Fame plaque during a ceremony to his honor at Yankee Stadium August 17, 2019 in New York City. (Jim Mcisaac/Getty Images)
Joseph A. Ruta, a lawyer representing Riveras, said the claims against his clients are “completely false.”
The applicant is seeking a jury attempt and compensatory and punitive damage.
Rivera, 55, is a five-time world champion and a 13-time MLB All-Star. He was introduced to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2019.
