A Denton County, Texas, jury Friday is deliberating the fate of former Texas Rangers pitcher John Wetteland, who is accused of sexually abusing a young relative in the early 2000s.
The Rangers Hall of Famer is charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison.
A relative accused Wetteland of forcing him to perform a sex act on him three times between 2004 and 2006, beginning when the child was 4 years old. The accuser said the abuse happened in the master bathroom shower of Wetteland’s Bartonville home, about 10 miles south of Denton.
