He is one of the most successful athletes in Taekwondo: The American Steven Lopez. The five-time world champion is now allowed to ride no Competition. The allegation: sexual abuse of a Minor.
The two-time Taekwondo Olympic champion Steven Lopez has been disabled due to sexual abuse of a child’s life. The U.S. Center for safe sport, and the Association of USA Taekwondo announced at the weekend. The 39-Year-old should have according to the media, the then 14-year-old Taekwondo reports in the year 2000-fighter Nina Zampetti sexually abused.
Zampetti was “proud and relieved”, because you will now finally believed. “After all the years in which I tried my family didn’t explain to that he is who he claims to be, is the truth finally come to light,” said the now 32-Year-old in an interview with the daily newspaper USA Today.
Lawsuit against the associations
The five-time world champion Lopez, who denies all the allegations and, according to his lawyer, Howard Jacobs against the lock opposition is loading, should have Zampetti for the first time closer to when she was ten years old. In April, his brother and Trainer Jean Lopez had been blocked due to similar allegations of life-long, the lock is suspended after his appeal on a provisional basis.
Meanwhile, four more women have accused the Lopez brothers for sexual Assaults. Steve’s Ex-girlfriend, Mandy Meloon, world Cup-third in 1997 and 2005, accused the now 39-Year-old, after the separation in 2004 in their apartment broken into, and to have abused them. Previously, it had been in their six-year relationship on several occasions to physical violence.
Meloon, and a further three patients have sued the Lopez brothers as well as the USOC, USA Taekwondo and the U.S. Center for safe sport. All of these organizations, it is said in the indictment, would have known that the Lopez-be brothers, “sexual predators”, however, they would have sent young women and girls with you to events and training camps all over the world.
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