Former sportscaster pleads guilty to child endangerment
Published:Wednesday | August 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM
NEW YORK (AP):
A sportscaster-turned-sports medicine doctor admitted yesterday he inappropriately touched a 14-year-old girl during an encounter in his apartment three years ago.
Dr Marvell Scott pleaded guilty yesterday to a misdemeanour charge of endangering the welfare of a child. He said he learned her age only after the encounter.
His case will be closed without jail time or probation if he does 20 days of community service.
Scott, 38, initially also faced rape and prostitution charges after his June 2008 encounter with the girl, whom prosecutors had said was a runaway who was working as a prostitute. Scott's lawyers, Benjamin Brafman and John D. Pappalardo, emphasised that he admitted to nothing but the child endangerment count.
"Mr Scott has maintained from the very start of this case that he did not commit the serious crime he was originally charged with," they said in a statement.
The Manhattan District Attorney's office declined to comment on Scott's plea deal.