Former Yankee and Indian Mel Hall arrested (1 Viewer)

[Doctor Detroit]

This is a few days old and you may have seen it

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NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas — A former major league baseball player faces charges of sexually assaulting two girls in 1998 and 1999 when he was coaching them on a select basketball team, police said Saturday.

Melvin Hall Jr., 46, was released from jail Friday on $35,000 bail. He was arrested the previous day on charges of sexual assault of a child under 17 and aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14, police said. The second charge carries a possible life sentence because of the age of the alleged victim.

When Hall was arrested, there was also an unrelated outstanding warrant on a theft charge, police said.

Hall could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press on Saturday. Several phone numbers listed in his name were incorrect or disconnected.

Police said they are looking for other possible victims because Hall was a girls basketball coach and organized a baseball camp in the area.

Hall played in the majors from 1981 to 1992 and again in 1996 for the Cubs, Indians, Yankees and Giants. He hit .276 with 134 home runs and 620 RBIs in his career.

The older alleged victim is now 22. She told police in May about an attack she said happened in 1999 when she went to his house to baby-sit his child. She said he removed her clothes and had sex with her on his bed, according to police documents.

A week later, they had sex in his car, she told police.

"She said she didn't say anything at the time because she was confused and ashamed," said North Richland Hills police spokesman Lt. Larry Irving. "She didn't know what to do."

After hearing her statement, police talked to other women who were coached by Hall, Irving said. A 21-year-old woman told police Hall molested her several times, beginning in 1998 when he stayed at her parents' home while his house in Southlake was under construction.

She said she was molested at her home, at his girlfriend's home where she was baby-sitting and in a hotel in Tennessee, where the team had traveled for a tournament, according to police documents.

He R Kelly'ed this one. What a scumbag.

 

[shadyridr]

Hes only 46

 

[SofaKings]

He actually threw his batting glove to me at a Tiger-Yankees game a LONG time ago.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

He actually threw his batting glove to me at a Tiger-Yankees game a LONG time ago.

I'll bet it smelled funny.

 

[redman]

He actually threw his batting glove to me at a Tiger-Yankees game a LONG time ago.

I'll bet it smelled funny.

I shouldn't have, but I

 

[Doctor Detroit]

He actually threw his batting glove to me at a Tiger-Yankees game a LONG time ago.

I'll bet it smelled funny.

I shouldn't have, but I

 

[NY/NJMFDIVER]

I always liked Mel on the Yankees, but there was that whole thing with him going to his girlfriends prom with her when she was a junior in high school. Absolutely true story, I think the Yankees yearbook might have actually featured that as one of the "off the field" player photos. So this is not exactly a shocker!

 

[Doctor Detroit]

I always liked Mel on the Yankees, but there was that whole thing with him going to his girlfriends prom with her when she was a junior in high school. Absolutely true story, I think the Yankees yearbook might have actually featured that as one of the "off the field" player photos. So this is not exactly a shocker!

If you could provide some sort of link on this I would be very grateful.