YouTube
A former American Ninja Warrior champion has been sentenced to greater than 10 years in jail for having a sexual relationship with a teenage woman.
After jail, Andrew Drechsel, age 35, should moreover serve 15 years of supervised launch and pay the sufferer $100,000 in restitution, Chief U.S. District Choose Renée M. Bumb dominated in New Jersey on Wednesday.
Drechsel pled responsible on June 1 to receiving youngster pornography and knowingly engaging and coercing a minor to journey interstate to have interaction in intercourse, the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace in New Jersey introduced.
The sufferer got here ahead in 2019. She claimed they met and exchanged telephone numbers at a parkour occasion in 2014 that was attended by a number of American Ninja Warrior contestants. She was simply 14 years outdated, a felony grievance states.
Drechsel invited the woman to his health club in Connecticut on her fifteenth birthday. The 2 had intercourse there, the sufferer informed police.
The sufferer informed authorities she and Drechsel engaged in intercourse a number of instances round New Jersey when she was between the ages of 15 of 17.
In 2019, police searched Drechsel’s telephone and located photographs of kid sexual abuse, together with photographs and movies of the sufferer.
Dreschel received season 11 of American Ninja Warrior. NBC has since lower all ties with the athlete. He received $1 million on the competitors present and competed in eight seasons