The jury from the County of the Chance (Oregon) sentenced Ben McLemor, the former player of the Breogan de Lugo River, for the rape of a 21 -year -old woman in 2021, when he was a member of the Portland path of the NBA Blaysers. The complaint was known in April last year. At that time, the escort, which was supposed to come to declare Oregon and was free on bail, was part of Lucense Club, which decided to leave him in the team until the end of this season.
Macolemor, 32 years old, was convicted of raping the first degrada, “illegal sexual penetration” in sexual violence of the first degree and second degree. He will receive the verdict on July 9, according to the Clakas District in a statement collected by EFE.
Selected in the 2013 draft in the 7th place of Sacramento with kings, Maclemo played nine seasons in the NBA and went through other teams, such as Memphis Grizzli, Houston Rockets, Los -Andakeles Lakers and Portland Trail Blaers. Then he tried good luck outside the United States on Chinese and Greek basketball, and then signed up on the Breogan River in the winter market, from AEK Athens. De Lugo went to the Turkish league.
This was not the first incident in which he was involved in his arrival in Galicia. In March 2024, a month before Lugo’s local police condemned the charge of violation, Mlar Mlor was convicted for drunk driving, refusing to perform the alcohol test and encounter agents.
“It is authorized to continue to provide sports services”
Events occurred in 2021, in Portland, when Maclore was a player of Trail Blazers. He had a relationship on the party party in the pattern of the template – according to him, agreed – with a woman who later accused him of rape and four other sexual crimes.
In April 2024, the escort went to his country to declare justice and was free after a pledge of 50,000 US dollars, and with the obligation to imagine himself again on July 1. By that time, Breoogan had already finished the season and reached the goal of constancy in ACB. The McLemore contest was key: its numbers in 18 games that they played amounted to 12.2 points, 2.6 selection and 1.4 programs.
McLmore was not called for the first game after his return from Oregon, but he returned to work in just a few days. He used to issue a statement that protects his innocence. “The positions that introduced me to court seem to claim that in 2021 I had sex with a woman who was too drunk to give her consent.”
“They do not accuse me of using physical strength to break anyone. Rather, I am accused of participating in sexual actions with someone, who now declares that he did not give his consent. I did not break this woman. I am not sexually insulting. I never looked for sexual relations when I realized that the woman was not interested in me, ”said the striker, who did not confirm her belief,“ this truth will be born, that this truth would come into the light. ”
The club, on the other hand, argued that “the current situation of the player” was proved, he found that the judiciary gives him the opportunity to use his passport with freedom, among other things, continues to provide labor and sports services in our club, so we observe and respect a court decision. ”
In his letter, Bregan added that Maclor “showed his complete tendency to continue to cooperate with justice and continue a clear commitment to the club, employees and coaching staff” and confirmed that the essence “always expresses and confirms the most absolute rejection of any type of violence”, while “manifestos and ask for respect for the principle of directing about direct”.
Among the critical remarks received by this decision, one of the most difficult was the criticism of Embogado a stump, which described it as “especially.” On social networks, they announced that, having seen that the goal was to “overestimate the image of the club are above all”, they would wait to find out the proposal and, if it were favorable for the victim, they would not stop until the board of directors and the general director of Blok. “Zero tolerance – accompanied by a violet heart – with the guilty and accomplices of such an analogue.”
In January, the President of the Club Carmen Lens called the case “the most difficult to manage” her first year in office. “It was really delicate. We did not make an easy decision, ”he said in an interview in The voice of GaliciaThe field “I had conversations with the lawyers of McLemor in order to know how to know what we are faced with, and the accusation of what was there. We also asked people who have encountered situations of this type earlier, we talked with ACB, which was very actively helping us, and we made a decision based on many criteria. ”
