Former Yankees pitcher John Wetteland will return to court in March to face trial for alleged aggravated sexual assault of a child, court records show.
The 52-year-old former reliever and 1996 World Series MVP as the Yankees’ closer was indicted in March by a grand jury in Denton County, Texas, after a relative accused him of sexually assaulting a young boy between 2004 and 2006, beginning when the child was just 4 years old, the Dallas Morning News reports.
The accuser claimed Wetteland forced the boy to perform a sex act on him three times during that span at his home in Bartonville, where the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame hurler was arrested in January on allegations of continuous sexual abuse of a child.