Chad Curtis Sentenced For Touching Teenage Girls Inappropriately

Chad Curtis, the former Major League Baseball outfielder, was sentenced today to a maximum of 15 years behind bars for sexual misconduct with teenage girls.

The Michigan Court, presided over by Judge Amy McDowell, handed down a sentence of seven to 15 years for the crimes. Judge McDowell said that Curtis was a “predator” and threat to any community he was part of.

The World Series champion was found guilty in August of six counts of criminal sexual misconduct. He told the court that the girls were lying and that he was an innocent “Christian servant.”

He said that he and one of the teenage girls who made the allegations against him: “could write a book together someday, and it could have a positive impact on a lot of people.”

Chad Curtis, aged 44, was accused by the prosecution of sexually assaulting the girls during his work as a volunteer weight-room trainer at a Barry County high school. One of the girls, aged 16, said that Curtis kissed and then touched her breasts. Two other girls, aged 15, claimed that he touched their buttocks.

It is not clear how much of the jail time Chad Curtis will actually do, this depends on a number of factors that will only be determined as he carries out his sentence. But the guilty conviction and sentencing of the former Baseball star is a sad day for Major League Baseball.