Former Olympic sprinter accused of rape
July 2, 2007
Adapted from CBSnews.com
A former Olympic sprinter confessed that he raped four women and a teenage girl during a four-year period after stalking them in city parks, authorities said.
A member of the 400-meter relay team for Trinidad and Tobago at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he was arrested in New York by police who matched him to a composite sketch of the rape suspect .
The 30-year-old runner was arrested on charges of rape, sexual misconduct and sexual abuse, police said.
The secretary general of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee said he didn't know what the runner was doing in the United States.
"He stopped running a couple of years ago," the secretary general said. "He just dropped off the scene."
Police said the man attacked three women in New York parks, including a 15-year-old girl a few months ago. In at least four of the attacks, police said the women had been walking with men. When the men left, the runner pounced, police said.
The latest assault took place last month when police said the man brandished a gun and raped a 34-year-old woman. After that attack, investigators were able to link it to others.
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