What’s with these retired professional athletes and getting caught up in sex scandals with minors? Is there a clause in their pension plan which requires them to be around underage youngins on the regular? Salesian soliciting?

No jokes. It’s just odd that these type of things keep occuring when you live the life of a dirty old man. One would think with the regular Bengay® endorsements, reality TV appearances and part-time anchor jobs, they could just keep some mature trim on the payroll. Just a couple of months ago, Alvin Robertson found himself in an sticky predicament, and now Lawrence Taylor has just been charged with rape of a 16-year-old girl. For shame.

The former New York Giants linebacker was arrested early Thursday at a Holiday Inn in Suffern, said Christopher St. Lawrence, supervisor of the town of Ramapo. The victim was 16, one year below the legal age of consent in New York, St. Lawrence said.

Ramapo Chief of Police Peter Brower said Taylor was cooperative when police woke him up around 4 a.m. Taylor was to be arraigned later Thursday on charges of third-degree rape and patronizing a prostitute. Police said the girl was reported missing by her family in March and had been staying with Davis in the Bronx for a few weeks. Early Thursday morning, he beat her up, drove her to the hotel and told her she had to have sex with Taylor, police said. When she refused, Davis handed her over to Taylor, who sexually assaulted her, they said. Taylor paid her $300, which she gave to Davis, police said.

Brower would not comment on whether Taylor knew the girl’s age but added, “Ignorance is not an excuse to an individual’s age.” Police said no drugs were found in Taylor’s hotel room on Thursday, but a bottle of alcohol was found. [Via]

Yep. That jungle juice will getcha every time. And before anyone wants to offer up a thesis on the miraculous anatomy spurt the girls are experiencing these days, let’s all be frank for a second and admit we know what a teenager looks like. LT seemed to be riding out on the path of the righteous, but to call this a setback would make staturory rape sound like accidental intercourse.

Lawrence Taylor Charged In Rape Case [Fox Sports]