Florida tennis coach Daniel James Riggs has been sentenced to twenty years behind bars
The grandson of former Wimbledon winner Bobby Riggs has been jailed (Picture: Getty)
The grandson of former Wimbledon champion Bobby Riggs has been jailed for 20 years after sexually abusing two ladies. Florida tennis coach Daniel James Riggs pleaded responsible to coercing and attractive two minors to have interaction in sexual exercise on Tuesday.
The 33-year-old was arrested in December 2024 on fees of enticement of a minor and manufacturing of kid pornography, in accordance with the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of Florida. A South Florida federal choose has now handed down a 240-month sentence.
The coach labored for ‘Workforce Riggs’ at a Fort Lauderdale tennis heart. Riggs was accused of utilizing his place to victimise two ladies between 2021 and late 2024, after assembly them on the tennis centre.
A federal grievance accused Riggs of participating in sexual conversations together with his first sufferer round October 2021, when she was 15, after he started teaching her in 2020. He’s accused of making a number of nameless accounts on social media platform Snapchat and utilizing the app to request sexually specific materials from the minor.
Riggs is the son of the late American tennis nice Bobby Riggs’s eldest son, Larry Riggs. The elder Riggs was a three-time Grand Slam champion and died in 1995 on the age of 77.
Bobby Riggs is most well-known for taking part in towards Billie Jean King within the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ match. The previous world No.1 was inducted into the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame in 1967.
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