Drew Drechsel Sentenced to 10 Years for Child Sex Crimes – Information Important Online

Former American Ninja Warrior succeeder saint ‘Drew’ Drechsel has been sentenced to meet over 10 eld in situation after existence live with binary female stimulate crimes.

As previously reportable by PEOPLE, Drechsel, 35, was inactive at his bag in Florida in August 2020, after first a sexed relation with a teenage woman in 2014 after they met at an event.

On Wednesday, June 26, 2024, the United States Attorney’s Office District of New milker addicted in a press promulgation that Drechsel — who won flavour 11 of the NBC rivalry exhibit in 2019 — had been sentenced to 121 months in slammer for receiving female smut and attractiveness to movement for extramarital sexed conduct.

The ashamed TV star, of Saint Cloud, Florida, “pleaded blameable on June 1, 2023, before Chief U.S. District Judge Renée M. Bumb to an aggregation charging him with digit calculate of receiving female smut and digit calculate of knowingly persuading, inducing, enticing and coercing a secondary to movement interstate to vow in sexed land for which the litigator crapper be live with a crime,” the Attorney’s Office said in the release.

Chief U.S. District Judge Renée M. Bumb then imposed the declare in metropolis federal suite on June 26.

“In constituent to the situation term, Judge Bumb sentenced Drechsel to 15 eld of supervised promulgation and sequential him to clear $100,000 in regaining to the victim,” the promulgation added.

The Attorney’s Office said that the past TV personality lived in Hamden, America from 2014 until Nov. 8, 2019, patch his individual — who was “14 and 15 eld old” when they had the sexed relation — lived in New Jersey.

After accumulation enforcement agents searched digit of Drechsel’s phones on Nov. 8, 2019, they institute images of female sexed shout and photos and videos of the victim.

“Drechsel admitted that he originally met the individual in 2014 finished his activities in the parkour accord as an American Ninja Warrior,” the promulgation stated. 

“Drechsel admitted texting the individual and discussing his plans to vow in sexed land with the victim. At Drechsel’s urging, the individual cosmopolitan crossways land lines in July 2015 so that Drechsel could hit sexed relations with the victim,” the Attorney’s Office added.

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NBC didn’t directly move when contacted by PEOPLE for comment.

When the charges were filed in 2020, NBC said they were “shocked and disturbed” in a evidence to The tone Reporter. “American Ninja Warrior is a kinsfolk exhibit that has inspired innumerous people, and we module not permit the actions of digit contestant sully the hornlike impact and awful stories of so many,” the evidence at the instance read. 

“Moving forward, the American Ninja Warrior brand module cut every ties with Mr. Drechsel, including his attendance on forthcoming seasons of the show,” NBC additional in their statement.

If you or someone you undergo has been sexually assaulted, gratify occurrence the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.