Former MLB outfielder Josh Hamilton pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of unlawful restraint, a misdemeanor, in connection with allegations of child abuse made by his daughter in 2019.
Hamilton was initially charged in 2020 with felony injury to a child after his 14-year-old daughter said he physically assaulted her. According to the Associated Press' Terry Wallace, the girl told her mother Hamilton struck her with a water bottle, threw a chair and then carried her to her room where he "pressed her face onto the mattress and began hitting her legs with an open hand and closed fist.