Overview

• Former Major League Baseball all-star player, Felipe Vazquez, has been deported to Venezuela after being convicted of sexually assaulting a minor.
• Vazquez played for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 2016 to 2019 and was arrested in 2019 over the sexual relationship he had with a 13-year-old girl.
• He was convicted by a jury of 10 counts of sexual abuse of children, two counts of unlawful contact with a minor, one count of statutory sexual assault, one count of indecent assault of someone under 16, and one count of corruption of a minor.
• Vazquez testified in his trial that he did not know the girl was a minor and claimed that he believed she was an adult woman that he wanted to have a relationship with.
• Immigration ordered that Vazquez should be removed from the U.S., and he waived his right of appeal. On December 1, he was deported to Venezuela.