Omar Vizquel sues Birmingham Barons bat boy for alleged sexual harassment

The autistic man accused longtime grand league player Omar Vizquel of sexual harassment when he led a Chicago White Sox affiliate, claiming in a civil lawsuit filed this week that Vizquel had uncovered his penis several times and forced the man to clean his back. Vizquel in the shower.

The man, whose name is ESPN secretly because the allegations involve sexual abuse, was the bat son of Birmingham Barons, a White-Sox Double-A subsidiary, when Vizquel led the team in 2019. The trial details alleged “sexually aggressive behavior” included “at least five times,” in which “Vizquel intentionally revealed his erect or partially erect penis” to a man.

According to the trial, on August 22, 2019, Vizquel got up naked from the shower, handed the man soap, and said, “Wash the hell back!” The man, “humiliated, threatened and afraid of what would happen if he disobeyed … – met Vizquel’s demand,” according to the complaint. The complaint later goes on to say that several Barons staff members – including the clubhouse manager who, after hiring the man, claimed he said, “Everything that happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse” – laughed when he was told he had washed Vizquel’s back.

The trial, brought by a 25-year-old man in Alabama’s U.S. District Court and first reported by Conduct Detrimental, accuses the White Sox and Barons of violating American law for people with disabilities and demands restitution and damages.

White Sox said in a statement: “After receiving the first information about the alleged case at the end of August 2019, the Chicago White Sox conducted an internal investigation that led to the severance of the relationship between the organization and Omar Vizquel.

Wife Blanca accused 54-year-old Vizquel last year of several physical acts of violence. He was arrested once but was not charged. Vizquel has denied her misconduct to his wife, who started the divorce process last year. Major League Baseball has admitted to investigating Vizquel’s personal and professional activities, even though he has not been employed by the organization since he was fired by the White Sox. According to the source, the study is still open.

Attempts to get to Vizquel through their agent failed.

Vizquel was fired last week after two seasons as head coach of the Mexican baseball league Tijuana Bulls.