The grandson of tennis legend Bobby Riggs was arrested Tuesday on the Lauderdale Tennis Membership and charged with enticement of a minor and little one pornography manufacturing, in line with Local10.com.
Daniel James Riggs, 31, had his preliminary look in court docket Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., per a press launch from the U.S. Division of Justice (DOJ).
The DOJ notes that social media “records” point out there could possibly be a couple of sufferer.
Riggs met the minor in 2020 when she was 15 and served as her tennis coach, and he allegedly started sexually abusing his pupil in 2021 and lasted for nearly three years, per Native 10.
The DOJ alleges Riggs sexually abused the minor whereas they traveled internationally and domestically for coaching and tournaments, and the “abuse continued locally within the Southern District of Florida.”
Riggs allegedly requested little one sexual abuse materials by way of Snapchat, per Native 10, and likewise allegedly had sexual conversations with the minor by means of a social media software.
He’s additional accused of making a number of nameless profiles and allegedly advising the minor to get rid of their communications.
“On another occasion in Brazil, Minor Victim 1 went to RIGGS’ room. There, RIGGS informed Minor Victim 1 that he felt they should not do this anymore (referring to engaging in sexual acts) because of the potential repercussions,” the prison grievance states, in line with Native 10.
Riggs’ pretrial detention listening to is ready for Dec. 23 at 11 a.m. ET, and the case was investigated by FBI Miami and the Broward Sheriff’s Workplace.
A pair of collegiate profiles belonging to Riggs from his time with Cornell and Lynn each checklist him because the “grandson of former world champion Bobby Riggs” and hailing from Pompano Seashore, Fla.
Bobby is most famously remembered for dropping to Billie Jean King within the 1973 “Battle of the Sexes.”
He received Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 1939 and likewise conquered the U.S. Open in 1941.
Bobby died on the age of 77 in 1995.
