"American Ninja Warrior" superstar Drew Drechsel of Connecticut celebrates after winning the top prize of $1 million for successfully completing all four stages of difficult obstacles in the national finals in Las Vegas.
In July 2015, the teen and Drechsel, then 26, texted about her visiting the New Era Ninja Gym in Hamden, Conn., which Drechsel owned, as a 15th birthday present. “To this day I still cannot get out of my head how he took advantage of me while I was a child, and the wave of PTSD those thoughts provoke,” the woman, now in her mid-20s, said in court Wednesday at Drechsel’s sentencing. “Drew is dangerous. ...it takes a predator to open gyms for children around the country, and then prey on the girls who go into those gyms.”
Both women said Drechsel used his celebrity to groom them and lure them into sexual relationships. They said the grooming and abuse still haunted them and left them struggling to trust themselves and their loved ones, more than a decade later.
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